The TV Show Thread

Metallica said:
Its bullshit no way anyone in the world can predict 5 balls out of 49

Pure turd, I dont beleive anything from Derren Brown and why did he have his hands covering his mouth all the time!

Fix.
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He says himself that it's a trick, he hasn't ACTUALLY predicted them. You just have to figure out how he did it, that's all.
 
I think his work fantastic pure illusion it all is but this is certainly one step above rest.

The show on friday one hour long he got alot of explanation to do love the hype its already caused. People coming up with all sorts of theories one ball being higher then other bricks moving on footage all sorts.

But certainly questions can be raised from it:-

Why did we only see the second camera man's shot once ?

Why wasn't anyone there to confirm the trick worked ?

Why did he never show the numbers he chose before the draw started. ?

I read delay of draw to the feed was 4 seconds as people was checking at the time it was live. I doubt he will reveal proper what he has done as Camelot would be screwed probably throw in some stuff to throw you off the path.

He shown before stuff can be done with shows like System but average joe just couldnt and would not try it out. It makes for great entertainment though i love his work look forward to rest of series and better then half crap that on TV.
 
Chris Davies said:
First off he says he can't show the numbers before the draw for legal reasons. If you're predicting numbers then what the hell does it matter? Bullshit.

His exact words are "we've had a meeting with Camelot, one of the things that came out from that meeting with Camelot is the fact that the BBC have a legal right to announce the lottery numbers first" - so breaking that down, is that all he was doing? Announcing the winning lottery numbers?
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Interesting point here. This can only mean one thing, which is that he wasnt predicting the numbers, he knew for a fact what they were gonna be. If he was actually predicting them, he'd technically be allowed to show it to you. Lets say I was holding what was gonna become the winning lottery ticket, am I not allowed to hold it on live TV and show it to the world? Of course I can. But like I'm saying, he actually knows for a fact that they were gonna be right, and I'm assuming Camelot know Derren knows the numbers, which is why he was probably warned about announcing the numbers before the BBC.
Another point is, why would Camelot tell Derren that he's not allowed to announce the numbers before the BBC if the Lottery draw is supposed to be live? If it was live, announcing the numbers before the BBC would be impossible. The BBC would only have warned him if both the BBC and Derren knew the numbers before the viewers saw them on TV. So yeah, the Lottery is probably not live.

Chris Davies said:
But he said several times that it was a live ("to the second") feed from the BBC and his feed was live as well. The balls don't move and he goes and picks up the stand they're on, it doesn't look superimposed or anything.
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So Derren here said that what we were seeing on Channel 4 was a live feed of BBC1. By saying "live feed", all he means is that the TV we're watching is actually tuned in to BBC1 and not a video tape. But as far as we know, the Lottery shown on BBC1 was taped earlier (which btw doesnt have an audience anymore) that Derren Brown was at, shown the draw, made a note of the numbers and then performed his trick on Channel 4.
 
What I was thinking was that they don't allow you to buy tickets after 8pm do they? So if they don't show the "live" draw until 10:35pm then it may not be live.

Saying that, the announcer always says e.g. "it's Wednesday night and it's 10:35pm", but that could be scripted of course.

I do think it's live though, I think it's something else. Lots of people are commenting on the plain brick background, with no green lights anywhere that would wreck a "green screen", meaning things could be superimposed. I bet he'll get massive ratings on Friday!
 
Chris Davies said:
Saying that, the announcer always says e.g. "it's Wednesday night and it's 10:35pm", but that could be scripted of course.
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Exactly, just like how Lineker says "Good Night" at the end of MOTD but conveniently says "Good Morning" on the repeat the next day.
I'm really starting to doubt that its live. The only reason why I think it might actually be live is cuz that would turn out to be a shit explanation for the trick on friday. But then again, Derren Brown once said that he's a liar and doesnt always give away the true explanation when he's revealing a trick. So the whole "Its not live" thing might be the real answer but he'll give us some BS explanation on friday to make the whole thing look a lot more impressive.
 
He didn't predict the bonus ball as he said "we're trying to win the jackpot so we don't need it'. You only need the bonus ball if you fail to get one of the first balls wrong and he wasn't.
 
Radiation said:
He didn't predict the bonus ball as he said "we're trying to win the jackpot so we don't need it'. You only need the bonus ball if you fail to get one of the first balls wrong and he wasn't.
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By not doing the Bonus Ball too, it buys him a few extra seconds that a stage hand may have needed to do something with the balls.

One of the those tricks where the explanation is going to be better (hopefully) than the trick - i.e. did anyone doubt he WOULDNT get all 5? It was no surprise, the fun is how he did it!
 
yep noticed that, the draw was really quick! Quicker that usual.

Of course its all bollox, he's a magician

All will be explained on friday. Massive rating for C4 after the Big Brother fiasco ;)
 
For those who watch it, Supernatural started up again last night, also the new CW show Vampire Diaries which is either very good or very awful depending who you read, waiting to watch it tonight/tomorrow myself.

Curb Your Enthusiasm starts back up on Sunday with a special, Seinfeld reunion show ;)
 
Automatic writing using a group of people who looked at a load of previous lottery numbers and seeeing if their subconcious would spot a pattern.

Or he fixed the lottery machine. Which he explained how he'd do it, but denied he'd do such a thing.
 
DagsJT said:
Automatic writing using a group of people who looked at a load of previous lottery numbers and seeeing if their subconcious would spot a pattern.

Or he fixed the lottery machine. Which he explained how he'd do it, but denied he'd do such a thing.
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haha it was total bollox.

a few numbers MAYBE doing it like that, but not 5.
 
True Blood - 212 (Season Finale)

An irregular season, in my opinion.
Sometimes it was brillant, sometimes it was boring.
This year, they had problems to fill with interest all episodes, so I'm hopeful they're going to do a much better job next year.

About the finale, not much to say but I can't wait to see what's happening.

- Sam is the man. I look forward to meet his parents.
- I don't like what's happening with Jessica... :(

And I can't stop watching the opening theme :).

7-/10
 
Didn't like the True Blood season overall either, but I won't give up on the show yet, it still better than a lot of things, the first season set the standards really high.

At least Maryann thing is over, they build an entire season on her then at the end they give us weird explanation about it and a quick lame death. Meh
 
Just finished watching Brotherhood. Gutted about them terminating the show, and after the way the third season ended I can't see it coming back.

What a great show though.
 
DON'T FORGET!

Derren Brown's hypnosis experiment is on at 9pm tonight, Channel 4!

I want everyone to do it to see who it does and doesn't work on! :)
 
I'm going to be watching, can't wait! :LOL:

I really hope it works on me!

I was discussing it in work earlier though, it can't work. He can't be allowed to hypnotise the whole country, surely health & safety issues would come into it? What if someone is glued to their seat and their house catches fire? Etc..
 
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Well he'll probably snap you out of it or you'll automatically snap out of it after a while anyway.

Do you seriously think he can say something down the TV and someone will be permanently paralysed? :LOL:
 
After a while wouldn't be very good if you were a pile of ash though ...
 
Rubbish, didn't work on me :(

I saw quite a few flashing images throughout the show and tried to listen hard to what he was saying throughout but my girlfriend and her housemate kept chatting away and I couldn't concentrate properly, very annoying!!

I'm still dubious as to whether it works on anyone then, 50% ratio yet 0/3 in this house and nobody said they were stuck in the chatbox.

Disappointing.
 
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