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Mr_Grue wrote:I reckon big boys did it and run away.

Definitely. Bigger boys.

It was very obviously monkey's dressed as a wall.
These monkeys went unnoticed and were able to switch out the balls.

Fact.

Did anyone else think...THAT WAS DERREN AT HIS ABSOLUTE WORST?

Fair play, for a faux reveal, it was clever but he seemed nervous, boring and very un-Derren.

Lenoir - glad you said that.

I've defended him so much to my wife, who doesn't have much time for him even at his best, but there were times tonight when I thought "This is awful".

Normally at least one of the cutaway scenes grabs you but....nah.

As I said earlier, Derren tells fibs !

Has anyone else remembered the second camera and still wondered why it was there on Wednesday?

This from the Guardian online:

Commentators on the web, who had spent the last two days mulling over various complicated solutions, were unconvinced, disappointed, even cross at Brown's explanation. Last night's show was unlikely to tackle all the theories. By avoiding entirely the possibility of some camera trickery, it didn't even address many of them.

But for some that will not detract from the experience which, while fantastic and perhaps frustrating, has reinforced the idea that event TV – where people sit down to watch a programme all at the same time – can still happen, regardless of digital services which are said to have made it redundant.

"It was a massive achievement to do it all live, and there was a sense of event that you can only get from live TV," said Channel 4's head of entertainment and comedy, Andrew Newman. The ratings will also, surely, please the broadcaster: 2.7 million watched on Wednesday.

Sounds about right. Well done Derren.

With three 'Events' to go, there's still time for him to return to the topic....

True, Mandrake, and we'll all be glued to our seats to see if he does...!

Not his best work IMO but still very entertaining. Looking forward to the others...

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I'll agree. I wasn't overwhelmed with last night's show. But then I found Trick or Treat rather hit-and-miss...

Throughout the whole thing i just felt like i was watching a man contradict himself. He's the guy who said once that the lottery numbers are just as likely to come out 1 2 3 4 5 6 as they are any other combination. He was forcing the issue of RANDOM down your throat.
Now he comes out saying a bunch of oiks meditating with a pencil in their hands can predict the outcome.

Utter rot.

Also, the polystyrene cup thing. I'd rather have seen the knife than a mouse. I know that's ' missing the point '.

Moaning aside, the lad's still done something that's got people talking, arguing, coming out with a load of old rubbish, and brightened up Friday evening television. In fact combine last night's double dose of DB's with Wednesday night, i think it's the most tv i've watched in a week for some time.

So, Derren Brown; rubbish at the truth, great for ratings.

I applaud his ability to get people talking.

And, camera trick or not, Wednesday's stunt was masterful.

I was just left cold by last night's show.

I was underwhelmed in every sense. He came across not as a brilliant showman and Mentalist, but as a low budget presenter.

The David Blaine show was a hell of a lot better, IMO.