Derren Brown: The Events

I'm not watching this live because I no longer have a television (yes I know) and Channel 4 isn't live streamed, but presumably they'll explain the illusion in the part 3 (is it still 3 parts in an hour long show?) as they did with 'The System' - and maybe have something similar to that trick where the racing journalists selected pictures 'randomly' in such a way that the odds were the same as placing all the bets correctly.

I didn't think he was especially misleading about 'The System' - there was some sleight-of-hand or whatever it was at the very end, but that was only there so that the woman didn't lose all her money and the show ended happily.

Do I implicitly trust everything he says? No, far from it. Do I think he's a likeable guy who makes interesting and entertaining television? Absolutely - and it's a lot better than Big Brother..

this is a load of old Crap

Actually I'm finding it enormously fascinating.

It's a load of rubbish. If he's let all of them independently pick integer numbers, how has it conveniently always neatly divided by 23/ 24 back to an integer? eg if one picks "1" and all the others pick "2", we don't have an integer value.

It doesn't matter what he says now because we know from the levitating ball that it was just a camera trick.

For next week he's "created a unique subliminal video" which will have us 'glued' to our seats I wonder what Ofcom would have to say about Derren Brown effectively trying to hypnotize viewers?

I enjoyed the show. The coin flipping bit was very interesting and although it was obvious what was happening afterwards, it was new to me at the time. The only disapointing bit was the end when I realised he wasn't going to differ from the 24 people predicting the numbers explanation. A better ending would have been for him to say "It was a camera trick, thanks for watching".

The answer is ... he's not going to tell us.

Tell you what, put any other reservations aside - that's a hell of a career gamble.

Bonus points to Euromillions for getting an advert in as well...

Bloody humbugs! You all spot a "levitating ball" and you draw conclusions based on your "expertise" in this field? Pah. I prefer to think it is possible to find order from chaos; and we need a little magical wonder in this world. Not all of us are narrow minded and cynical. You want to believe in a camera trick? Why bother watching the show then?

that was disappointing. let's face it, there were only two ways this trick could have been pulled off, but it's still a let down that i watched all that bullsh*t about predicting randomness to find that it was all a waste of time anyway.

Because it's entertainment. As Derren said, it's just a trick.

I prefer to think lots of things, doesn't make them true though.... there is no way to predict the lottery

Shame he didn't show whether the 24 were allowed to look in the box from which he took the balls - just to prove to them he had taken the predicted numbers.

Well his 'magical' method managed to predict 3 numbers the first time, and 4 numbers the second time. Knew it was rubbish though when he wouldn't show them his prediction. Nobody saw his 'prediction' unti after the lottery draw, which makes me think there wasn't one at all.

I don't even think weighted balls would alter the outcome of the lottery, and even then there's no proof all six weighted balls would be drawn.

Why didn't the 24 people join him in the room for the reveal? It was too late for them to buy a ticket anyway, so they couldn't benefit from it.

All of that makes it even more obvious that it was a camera trick. As if that wasn't obvious enough from the dodgy camera moves.