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Home > Entertainment > Don’t Miss: Derren Brown: The Experiments – The Secret of Luck – 11.11.11 November 10th, 2011 by Sarah. No comments Tomorrow night, illusionist Derren Brown’s final installment of his current Channel 4 show ‘The Experiments’ ends with his trying to convince an entire town that they are lucky… In ‘The Secret of Luck’, we’ll hear how old wives tales and modern urban legend would have us believe that dates such as 11.11.11 are lucky – ditto for 7th July 2007 – and to see just how far people’s faith in such things can affect their actual lives, Derren enlisted the help of TV presenter Dawn Porter . She arrived in a Todmorden in Yorkshire to film a bogus documentary about a statue in the town. The tale Dawn told is that the statue, which is of a dog, has “special powers” and can bring those who touch it some luck. And while she was filming, the fake ‘lucky dog’ story even made it onto East Midlands evening news, showing their roving reporter stroking the dog ...

April 20th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Derren Brown: Miracles For Sale, Monday 25th April 2011, 9pm, Channel 4 Derren Brown is a man on a mission. His latest project, Derren Brown: Miracles for Sale, sees him take on the world of faith healing, where rich men prey on the vulnerabilities of the sick and needy to fill their already-bulging wallets. Brown’s disgust for this world has stirred him to action, and the result is a film that is by turns shocking, disturbing, hilarious and inspirational. Here, he reveals a little more about the project, and explains why it was his most stressful shoot yet. Your new programme is Derren Brown: Miracles for Sale. What’s the concept? It’s an attempt to lift the lid on the world of Faith Healing and the way we’re doing it is by trying to launch an ordinary guy off the street here, as a Faith Healer in Texas. Creating a fake Faith Healer and seeing what we can get away with, the point of it being to expose what is, at least what I consider to ...