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No celebrities, just a bunch of magicians doing tricks for people on the street

"Freaky", on at insomniac o'clock on a Friday night/Saturday morning and maybe on 4od too

I hope you're proud of yourselves

(it does star David penn though, that's the only redeeming feature)

And the flip side of the coin...


Under Pressure
11pm on Monday 25th April (1 hour) on ITV2.
Tinchy Stryder. "New episode of the show in which celebrities attempt to realise an ambition which they have been too afraid to fulfil - until now. In this edition, chart-topper Tinchy Stryder tries to become a street magician. Aided by an expert mentor - magician Nigel Mead - Tinchy has just three weeks to learn the tricks of the trade before he must put on an outdoor show in front of hundreds of people - ending with an upside-down straitjacket escape 50 feet in the air. Along the way, Tinchy will try to master some dark magical secrets, including card tricks and the art of escapology, and he will have to learn a whole new way of engaging with his audience. To help him learn to overcome his inhibitions, he also tries his hand at stand-up comedy as an opening act for Andi Osho."

So following on from BBC's "The Magicians" we have yet another show where the over riding message is going to be "anybody can learn how to be a magician in the smallest amount of time, even if they have never done it before." Personally I don't see much promise here, it will get the same "it was intended to entertain laypeople, not magicians" comments but just begs the question "What's wrong with letting a bunch of people who have spent a decent amount of time getting it right doing it on TV?"

So if Tinchy can do magic, can I shout incoherent gibberish over a repetitive beat?

from his masterpiece 'I'm Landing':

'Hey yo, its that mad, lifestyle emotional, its that bad.
Missed my mom's birthday, had a show, that bad.
Ups and downs, mishaps, problems mount, that large.
Street clowns and hood rats are speaking out that they are loud.'

You philistine. How could you call that incoherent gibberish?

a totaly different coin all together.

next saturday, bbc2 2.30. The bbc are showing the royal Balet companys production of Alice in Wonderland.

which is, chock full of magic.

Trying not to go to far off on a tangent.

I'm glad for people that perform magic by trade it's much more popular in the live performance field. I went to Vegas recently and watched Penn & Teller live (on my return I broke out my magic books etc which ha remained boxed since I moved house). Not one seat in the venue was empty.

In this age of CGI and camera angles people are only convinced by that which they can see in front of them not on a screen and it's far harder to pirate the feeling of a live performance than it is a song or DVD or any other staple bread winner relied upon by other performance artists.

I've only ever seen two peoples picture plastered up the side of a 51 storey building and they are magicians.

I must also mention Chris Angel and David Copperfields names where in huge letters on the side of their resident hotels. And getting your name on such expensive advertising space in the entertainment capital of the world is proof magic is much loved. Either that or the Rio hotel is the biggest gaff on the planet.

kolm wrote:(it does star David penn though, that's the only redeeming feature)

Does not compute!

Tinchy is gully, yo