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Anyone else been watching this??

Seems like the magicians arent going down very well. Just saw Dave Allens act...His goose escaped and gave the secret away. I feel sorry for him especially as its on live TV. I had heard his name quite a lot before around the magic community.
I also saw a lot of other clips of Magic Acts going horribly wrong also
Simon Cowell said "I HATE MAGICIANS!!"

GIVE US A CHANCE SIMON!!

Anyone know if any magicians got through?
I can remember a three-some that got through doing 'Horror' Style magic which was quite entertaining.

What are other peoples thoughts about the magic on this programme?


Tyler

I didn't get through the first round, and I'm glad, as they seem to make us all look bad. My daffy duck balloon made it on the show though!!!

LOL

I saw a Daffy balloon go past and immediately thought that might be yours.

He was on a bike, but it was to close to the camera to see.

the problem with the magic acts I've seen is that there really doesn't seem to be that much flare or originality. I missed most of last night so don't know if it was any better, but the only magicians I've seen go through were the husband and wife illusionists. His presentation was terrible, slow and drawn out. The effect would have made a nice opener if followed up with something, but it didn't. They just did a little dance and that was it. I wouldn't have even put them through.

If I'd had a buzzer, I'd have buzzed him before he even performed the effect.

I completely agree there LOMSTER. All the magic acts seemed quite poor to me too. The duck thing was a shame but even then the performance came across a bit hokey for me.

Is this the same programme that is on at 6:30 during the week? With Brian Connoly hosting? I don't watch teh program but I heard that Etienne Pradier had won one of them and had gone through to the Friday final.

Unfortunately I neither saw the act that won the evening show, nor did I see the final - but at least he got as far as the final. That has to be good for magic.

Anyone know how he did on the Friday final?

no I think it's a different one.

It's on about 9ish every night at the moment. They're still going through the early heats at the moment

bananafish
The programe your thinking of was called let me entertain you.
I prefer it to the other as it's not so presentationaly fixed.

They had a quite entertaining guy this week. think his name was magic sam

Did the spike under three cups thing with a spectators hand to get to the final, and then a bill in lemon for the final.

made me laugh anyway

I really hope Paul wins. He is fantastic, I get goose bumps everytime he sings and he works for the same company I do...

I just watched one of the acts that managed to get into the semi-final called, "Dr Gore", which to be quite honest was a bit of an embarrasment to magic, it went over the top on costumes and presentation and lacked on the magic side of things.

The guy opened by shouting something, then pulled a random knife out and plunged it into his wrists?, by the looks of his previous act he trys to incorporate the "Knife thru arm" gimmick into everything, it looks so gaffed its unreal.

Then he proceeds to place a male assistant (no introduction or examination), onto what is a makeshift operating table, grabs an angle grinder out of nowhere and apparently slices it into his assistant, then puts his hand underneath the cloth and pulls out random objects, supposedly from the victim's body.

What he did had no motivation, and went drastically over the top on image, I would have prefered to have seen him present the effect more and put a logical storyline to it, possibly a climax to it, rather than pointlessly removing objects.

Another thing with the show is that when all three judges press their buzzers, the act has to stop and then the performers are spoken to by the judges, and as this performance was so badly done, the victim had to get out from underneath the cloth and reveal his body completely unharmed.

Just my two penny's.

-Tom

you should watch his previous performance it was better than the one he did tonight. It was too drawn out and when he pulled that rubber chicken out of him it became too silly and farfetched to be taken seriously.

He was apalling tonight. Too much fumbling & not just getting on with it.
Arrogant people too...

but the comments from the judges were funny

it was a awfully big sheet to produce such small items from wasn't it.