The Events
Back home now, 3 am. The Events are now over and I want to thank everyone who tuned in over the last few weeks. Along the way, 20 million viewers tuned in – far more than any of us ever imagined – and I hope most of you enjoyed the shows. It’s been a real ride: I’ve had loads of fun making them, though I’m still reeling from tonight’s escapade. I called Ben as soon as I could and he doesn’t hate me, so I can sleep tonight.
Thank you again, all of you who watched or even took part in the interactive elements. Loads of love, and sweet dreams.
Derren x
What a LEGEND!!! Off by one, you might as well say you got it right 😛 Anyway I think it’s good you got one wrong because it shows people who think you cheat that you don’t 🙂
Looking forward to your other shows!
x
Just wanted to say, whether or not that roulette thing was a planned mistake, or if the no.30 was on the truck all along (i didn’t spot it but who can say) or if it was just a case genuinely being off your game on the night I’m still a huge fan.
I think your track record of 30 or so successful TV shows and countless live performances speaks for itself, and I’m not vindictive enough to judge someone’s entire output based on the occasional off day.
Who knows, there may yet be a cunning postscript to this one as there was with the System… the poster competition hasn’t reached a climax yet 😉
in response to ( joe says: October 3, 2009 at 12:32 pm) i would like to add that i think the casino stunt took place a few weeks before or the day before this would have given derren the chance to put the number on the trucks. i think derren was in the truck in front all the time (‘ somewhere in europe’ ) and he purposely put on a time difference in his replies to make it seem more convincing. plus the speed stunt in which derren got the age of the car could have been done by lookin the other way over the bridge.
despite my sceptical mind i was enthralled from beginning to end derren is such a good showman well done.
Dear Derren,
You have absolutly outstanding qualities, whilst i dont understand all of them you still amaze me and my husband to the point of determined research to try and understand what and how you do things. I can only say that last nights event showed remarkable showmanship above all else. we would be interested to hear some comments on this from you.
Anyway we hope you are well and not stressed out from your last event and hope to see you do some more amazing feats soon. Good luck with November.
kat
Hey derren!
We Just wanted to let you know that we have enjoyed and been WOWED by what you have done this series.
We felt for you when you didnt guess the correct number, and dont want you to be too disappointed. To be honest to see you fail at that shows your not infallible, and gives us far more respect for you. Its much easier to relate to someone you know can fail as opposed to some amazing magician who is far beyond your understanding. It truly adds to the “surely he cant pull this off” factor.
We havn’t managed to see you in person yet, and are desperate to catch one of your shows, or get involved!
Take Care,
Sam & Christy.
lol Derren’s such a legend 😀
Hope your not disheartened by the results….no doubt you’ll release a subliminal advert telling us all that it was a success ; ) . All the events were amazing and I look forward to every show you do.
Wow! I loved the show last night and this series has been fantastic, you’ve left everybody wondering over last nights event and i thought it was brilliant whether you meant that to happen or not.
Keep it up!
Rosie x
Great series Derren. I would rather be sat there wondering how you came so close and missed than wondering if it was an illusion and I had been taken in by something simple. Kudos to you.
😉
no friggin way! the cheque clearly says 180, 000! no way! and the 30 on the van.
come on now! where’s the reveal!?
AMAZING series, such a shame it has come to an end, can’t wait for more of your work, you blow my mind!
Be happy and keep smiling 🙂 x
Our beliefs become our reality, the mind is most powerful and D Brown dances around this fact. The message is for people to remain sceptics, question everything, especially your beliefs. Is it real or an illusion? We want to believe we’re in control, but D brown has been able to control people to an extent (picking the ‘right’ person out of hundreds) and fool people into believing certain things, through manipulating the mind. How in control do you think we are? Things we’re being fed on a daily basis through mainstream media, we’ve got to question that too. Don’t trust anything or anyone, take responsibility-know yourself and think for yourself.
nice one derren.
In my eyes, he’s succeeded as an entertainer; he’s had many people laughing, scowling, confused and dazed, and Brown has been smiling in the midst of it. And indeed, it is very smile-able.
Derren you are still awesome in my eyes. See you in Edinburgh in April.
Peaceful Blessings to you. x
A bit obvious Derren couldn’t win it…..ethics and legalities…thats my take on it anyway.
Great shows,looking forward to more.
Hi Derren,
We’ve really enjoyed the series. You’re an absolute genius. Can’t wait to see you in 3D…
Love Kay and Rosie x
ahh cant believe you were only one off! im a maths student and your mental power is just awesome. The amount of time it must of took to learn that roullete and then come so close, i feel for you man.
I’m fairly sure UK gaming Law forbids a member of a casino from placing a bet for a non member, thus making the bet a ‘no bet’ and meaning neither the £5k can be taken or the £175k would have been paid out… ‘fairly sure’ being the operative as the gaming laws have just been revised…
Hi derren,
Loved the shows, they were brilliant! I love what you do and have done some research into the way you do things, I must say you have an amazing mind. I think the roulette was deliberate though, maybe you got caught in the casino and had to make a swift exit, I dunno that is just “one” of my theories. I am looking forward to your science of scams shows, and your next C4 show in November.
All the best
Kate.
Was absolutely gutted you only missed it by one number, it just goes to show roulette isn’t an exact science and that I’m better off sticking to slots! For what it’s worth, if I ever had £5k to spare, I’d still trust you with it in a casino!! It’s been a great series, my boyfriend and I have made an effort to watch it for the last 4 Fridays, it’s been a big talking point for us and we’re really looking forward to the next series.
Astonishing how u actually worked out that whole equation in your head in a second, and to only be 1 off is still a success to me. It is said that computers can only work out roughly where that ball would land, so to get it that close is amazing. And as it was not exactly right should only go to show that there are no stooges in on the act, and hopefully it will convince some doubters about the other three events. Keep up the good work, you’re the best out there at the moment.
i think that last night you proves that you can infact beat the casino… 1 off man 1 off!! that is immensly close, and for a human to do it (i have suspicions you may not be human thought lol!!) i think it was amazing. your amazing. you most certainly proved that its possible
I said to my mate the other day, ‘I love Derren even though he cheats’ and he said, ‘I love Derren BECAUSE he cheats’. I liked that very much. Showmanship.
The Events have all been amazing! Last night was no exception-getting Ben to hand over all of that money without realising was hilarious! You are a true star and I can’t wait to see what you have in store for us next!
The “0ops!” banner at the top should be changed to LEGEND!
Sorry Derren, not impressed by this series.
Your previous work was brilliant because it kept us thinking about how you did it. Different to all other performers because we didn’t know whether it was hypnosis, mind reading, etc, etc, etc,
But this series we knew what you were doing is impossible, and so the explanations given couldn’t be believable. We stopped wondering how it was done.
hm. Weird. Can’t help feeling that the “trick” was on us and that by adding my comments now, I’m a part of it…so much mis-direction etc over the last few weeks. Loved it but having read the tricks of the mind book, have been trying to guess whats really going on the whole time… feel that the small comments on previous episodes such as the seat sticking one, where “none of what i said was true” (or something). Don;’t know what was going on but don’t believe it was as appeared. I’m so skeptical tho i don’t even believe it was a real casino…. what was the other van for…? Hm.
Dear Derren
Thank you for going out on a limb – you nearly did it. I actually like it that you missed this last finale, maybe it was not a scam of some sort (? – love that I never know!!!)
I admire you’re courage and the fact that You and your brilliant team succeded to entertain and hopefully also took down a fake mumbojumbo practitioner or two along the way.
Lotte (from Copenhagen….)
Amazing as always! 1 number off!
Good luck with enigma&looking forward to watching you in 3D
<3
Well done with the Events series, 3 out of 4 isn’t bad!
Looking forward to the 3D show that’s coming up.
Keep up the good work!
The shows were awesome!
Cant wait to see you in april! finally got tickets to one of your tours!
🙂
xx
Hey. We thought we’d let you know that us at http://runescapez.com were discussing the show as we watched it last night. Bad luck mate, but that was pretty close!
great show last night Derren, as always! really enjoyed it, even if you didn’t get it you got so close. genius! 3D sounds good 🙂
You were one out on purpose!! You coudn’t let Ben win all that money. Not ethical. But very clever. You don’t make mistakes. You don’t get things wrong. You’re a very clever man. Indeed. Not Bad luck, in fact it went perfectly.
This is a case where DB prediction (but not the method) could be genuine. He mentions that electronic calculators can narrow the result down to about one in seven. This is based on the user inputting the time at which the ball and the zero pass a certain point. DB had two cameras trained on the wheel potentially giving much more accurate data to predict where the ball will fall.
Due to all the secrecy you have to trust DB that it is a genuine casino. It would be easy and artistically bankrupt to use a fake casino so I think we have to take his word for that.
@Nootchburgers – Euros to £ exchange rate is not far off 1:1 at the moment. The other point though is that he talks English, perhaps this is common in casinos.
Great ENTERTAINMENT, thanks ;)! The best bit of all about The Events is that even in this modern age, some people STILL believe what they’re told! Milgram knew what he was on about…
ive watched all your shows and you are truely amazing derren, everything you do is incredible
it was very bad luck about last night, but it just shows that you are human and we do make mistakes. ill be watching in november, im looking forward to it :D!!
Enjoyed all the Events, Friday nights wont be the same.
Derren Derren Derren, you couldn’t fool me Tyler Clacey, at the end of last nights event , how to take down a casino, you supposedly failed your task of winning Ben £175,000, when in actuality, as the camera was pulling out from Ben’s “shocked” reaction and the trailer he was in, next to the man whos was speaking to Ben, next to the trailer a man with a giant cheque was there , for £180,000, so you did the bet you that was the deciding one , of £5,000 to give Ben the promised of £180,000, no one in my knowledge has noticed this yet, yours truly, Tyler Clacey , aged 14 from Leicester
Friday just aren’t going to be same.
Can’t wait for your 3D thingy. I’ll absolutely have to invest in some of them glasses.
All the best for the future. <3 x
That was a great program, I keep on thinking that it was all a set up and the ‘casino’ was just an area of the channel 4 studio (or something along those lines) and the money wasn’t really Ben’s (how did the bank let him draw out £5,000 in one visit?)
Although saying that, I did go back to the programme and I saw the 30 on the side of the van!
I just don’t know what to think, but Derren I love your stuff, keep it up
Derren, your so myteriously brilliant!!!!!!
i love how no one knows if you meant it to fail or not!!!
shows your amazing, pursauding some to belive it was inteneded to be like that…or maybe it was and some just guessed…hmm its confusing….WELL DONE DERREN
Wow……………but not in a good way! Ive seen better acting on Hollyoaks!!
You would never be able to draw out £5000 in just a “few minuets later”, When Ben answered the phone he would have seen himself on the television because he was still watching the “live” show, and when You asked him if he could see himself on television he was like “oh yes look im on tele”!
I think if i had £5000 in the bank i would know if it had been withdrawn, and im guessing the bank would have sent a statement to his home to confirm the withdrawl, or at the very least he would have some sort of reciept on his person to say that he had made the withdrawl!
It just doesn’t make sense!
What a load of old tripe!!!
I might be imagining things, but Ive recorded it and paused it, and Im comvinced that the guy holding the check is Derren. Hmm.
JayKay says: I said to my mate the other day, ‘I love Derren even though he cheats’ and he said, ‘I love Derren BECAUSE he cheats’. I liked that very much. Showmanship.
haha! brilliant! he boiled it down nicely and i agree. also Derren, is very handsome (and mind you i’m a straight man saying this).
maninalift says: “you have to trust DB”
ha ha and HA! you have to trust the trickster? maybe you should play cards with him then!
here in Texas I’ve only been catching the scraps on youtube, but have to say it’s all been excellently well done. Cheers!
Derren Brown, you are by far the biggest draw on British television in recent times. Your shows and methods are innovative, entertaining and mind-stretching. Whether you failed by accident or deliberately last night, isn’t relevant. Keep on trucking and bringing it to us. Be sure you are much admired but don’t let that become a pressure. Much love. xxx
Hi Derren! Are you a trickster sent from above to wake up the masses to this illusion we call reality, or are you really a sceptic? Anyway ten out of ten, which is the same score I gave to David Blaine. Hey, same initials, spooky!
i think he failed on purpose, with all the speculation from the newer viewers claiming hes a fake and uses computer cheats.
Derren,
Congratulations on The Events. For me your have consolidate yourself as a freaking genius.
I’m a brazilian fan and i have not saw the episode4. i hope to see it soon!
Congrats
Gutted as i am to be even thinking this, as i would follow your work to the end of the earth (well nearly), disappointed with the events. Nowhere near as good as your previous stuff, which left us, if nothing, totally speechless and talking about it for weeks after. The events, was.. well…. was that it?…. it left us with an awkward silence, looking to see if that… was really it. The casino.. i don’t know…. the ending… was… well…. a total let down. Gutted.