STAGE & SCREEN
Channel 4, September 2009
THE EVENTS
On Wednesday 9th September 2009, in a live television broadcast, Derren Brown successfully predicted the winning lottery numbers in How To Win The Lottery, the first of four groundbreaking one-hour special events.
In How To Control A Nation, Derren stuck viewers to their sofas through direct suggestion. Over the following week, stories emerged of those who couldn’t ‘unstick’: one man had watched a taped version of the show which had cut off before the vital instruction of release. He remained stuck all weekend until his girlfriend came home.
How To Be A Psychic Spy saw Derren plant a single image in the collective mind of the nation, in a giant experiment of apparent telepathy.
Finally, in How To Take Down A Casino, Derren attempted to predict the outcome of a roulette wheel and bet £5,000 of a randomly selected viewer’s money on the outcome.
The Events was nominated for Best Entertainment at both the Broadcast Awards 2010 and the National Television Awards 2011.
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“Whatever you think of Derren Brown he’s definitely succeeds in creating the subject of this morning’s oh-my-god-did-you-see television conversation. Everyone will have their theories of how he does it, they’ll wonder if they would have been susceptible themselves. I don’t know any of the answers but I do know he makes very good telly.”
– Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
STAGE & SCREEN
Channel 4, September 2009
THE EVENTS
On Wednesday 9th September 2009, in a live television broadcast, Derren Brown successfully predicted the winning lottery numbers in How To Win The Lottery, the first of four groundbreaking one-hour special events.
In How To Control A Nation, Derren stuck viewers to their sofas through direct suggestion. Over the following week, stories emerged of those who couldn’t ‘unstick’: one man had watched a taped version of the show which had cut off before the vital instruction of release. He remained stuck all weekend until his girlfriend came home.
How To Be A Psychic Spy saw Derren plant a single image in the collective mind of the nation, in a giant experiment of apparent telepathy.
Finally, in How To Take Down A Casino, Derren attempted to predict the outcome of a roulette wheel and bet £5,000 of a randomly selected viewer’s money on the outcome.
The Events was nominated for Best Entertainment at both the Broadcast Awards 2010 and the National Television Awards 2011.
![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pABFJbA8smw/maxresdefault.jpg)