Derren Brown: Apocalypse [CONCLUDES TONIGHT @ 9PM, C4]

[Jack_]

Trailer:

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Looks like a good one this. Derren's work is always fascinating so I'm looking forward to it.

[Ramsay]

Dat Derren

[arista]

1 of 2

This 1st show gets a 2nd Showing
10:30PM Sunday Ch4 and Ch4HD

http://derrenbrown.co.uk/

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[Me. I Am Salman]

Isn't that illegal?

[arista]

Isn't that illegal?

No
he has Medics on standby
for the one person picked
that is put in a trance.

http://itricks.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2Derren-Brown_-Apocalypse-26th-October-Channel-4-YouTube.jpg

[Josy]

Is this tonight or tomorrow? it says Friday the 27th?

[GypsyGoth]

I might watch it on sunday night.

[King Gizzard]

I might watch it on sunday night.

living life on the edge

[GypsyGoth]

living life on the edge

Sign Of The Times.

[GypsyGoth]

I changed my mind, I am gonna watch this.

[arista]

On Now

[GypsyGoth]

In other words, Stephen is a gullible idiot.

[Jordan.]

Watching, I'm still disappointed however after that time he said he could viewers to stick to their chair and it failed to work :idc:

[GypsyGoth]

Watching, I'm still disappointed however after that time he said he could viewers to stick to their chair and it failed to work :idc:

I think that worked on someone who Vicky was watching it with.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Watching, I'm still disappointed however after that time he said he could viewers to stick to their chair and it failed to work :idc:

Oh god, this
and the lottery one.

[GypsyGoth]

Yea the lottery one was dumb, after the numbers were announced, he showed them to us.

[arista]

Off to bed
in Trance

[GypsyGoth]

It's pretty good so far, very cinematic.

[Jordan.]

Of all the places for the meteor to hit it was right infront of his coach :joker:

[arista]

Like the film 28Days?

[King Gizzard]

Hate to be cynical but this is just dodgey acting

[Vicky.]

I think that worked on someone who Vicky was watching it with.

Yeah it worked on gavs mam...which was weird as she wasnt even paying much attention to the show either while we were desperate for it to work and it never did on us. She was hysterical...it was quite funny :laugh2:

[arista]

He looks like Ben

[Marcus.]

poor guy

[MTVN]

Not sure I believe this is real

[Marcus.]

i would be crying if this was me

[arista]

Not sure I believe this is real


He is under the Spell of
Derron.


They Have medics on Standby.

[Marcus.]

He is under the Spell of
Derron.


They Have medics on Standby.

if this goes wrong and he as problems

[arista]

Like A Movie


Bliss.

[MTVN]

I would ditch that kid if I was him

[Jordan.]

Getting quite scary, I wont be sleeping tonight http://i.imgur.com/lcFJS.png

[GypsyGoth]

Yeah it worked on gavs mam...which was weird as she wasnt even paying much attention to the show either while we were desperate for it to work and it never did on us. She was hysterical...it was quite funny :laugh2:

:laugh2:

[Marcus.]

Getting quite scary, I wont be sleeping tonight http://i.imgur.com/lcFJS.png

yeah it is

[Jamie.]

I'd be ****ting myself...
It's so freaky

[arista]

I would run Faster

[Marcus.]

and if this is part one what part 2

[Vicky.]

Watching this on sunday I think

[Alf]

is this for real or what
that guy steven is obviously an actor, a bad one at that
i usually like derren brown, but this is not real

[Marcus.]

is this for real or what
that guy steven is obviously an actor, a bad one at that
i usually like derren brown, but this is nit real

i half and half

[King Gizzard]

Terry O'Quinn!?

[Marcus.]

is is scary then anything he done before

[Ninastar]

lol is this supposed to be real?

[Marcus.]

lol is this supposed to be real?

yes i think

[arista]

and if this is part one what part 2


Part2
we should get told at the End when its on.

[Marcus.]

Part2
we should get told at the End when its on.

yeah but if this is part one i hate to think part 2

[King Gizzard]

http://www.lowdensitylifestyle.com/media/uploads/2010/04/lost-locke.jpg

[GypsyGoth]

lol is this supposed to be real?

Steven believes it because he was hypnotised.

[Vicky.]

Actualy gunna watch on +1 instead, got nowt else to do :joker:

[Marcus.]

wow this is really heavy

[King Gizzard]

Load of bollocks

Just like hypnosis in general

[Jordan.]

Poor Leonas gonna get eaten by those meteor zombies

[MTVN]

Pretty good drama even if it's fake

[Alf]

oooooooooooooooo
not convinced, but it was alright i suppose
i'll watch the next on

[Marcus.]

wow cant wait next firday

[arista]

Great Next friday at 9PM


28 days is now on E4HD and E4

[arista]

Pretty good drama even if it's fake


Yes Great set Up
like a Movie.


28 Days - of course

[King Gizzard]

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/darius_danesh_290x400.jpg

[GypsyGoth]

Derren Brown could be the new Jimmy Saville and no one would ever know.

[Marcus.]

Derren Brown could be the new Jimmy Saville and no one would ever know.

yeah could but only with your mind

[King Gizzard]

Everytime Derren gave Ian an action he did it with no difficulties whatsoever

[Jordan.]

Looking forward to it next week, it honestly feels like a movie... just waiting for someone to die.

[Jarrod]

Amazing.

[Vicky.]

I really enjoyed this. That Leona wasnt a very good actress though, Ian was fantastic and very convincing.

[Josy]

I thought it was really good, I agree with you about Leona though Vicky, she was ****.

[Jack_]

Ahem...I created a thread on this ages ago.

http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=213831

[Kizzy]

I can't make up my mind on this...
At one point I thought he knew, it seemed a little staged when he left the hospital saying 'come on we've got to get out of here'!...
And if it were you in this situ wouldn't you be asking the ambulance guy more questions?
I'm not convinced, and I HATE zombie stuff. :(

[Vicky.]

I can't make up my mind on this...
At one point I thought he knew, it seemed a little staged when he left the hospital saying 'come on we've got to get out of here'!...
And if it were you in this situ wouldn't you be asking the ambulance guy more questions?
I'm not convinced, and I HATE zombie stuff. :(

A few people are saying things like this and concluding that he must be an actor as he doesnt react like normal people would. But how would a normal person really react in a situation like that? I doubt it would be like they do in films, which seems to be what people expect (eg. grabbing anything to hand and hitting the zombies with baseball bats). No-one knows because no-one has ever been in that situation. Its bizarre, and had me thinking about how I would react, and I cant even begin to imagine tbh.

[King Gizzard]

Of course he knew

[Me. I Am Salman]

What confuses me is why a guy with a 'dead end' job who leads a lazy carefree irresponsible life would be so interested in Professor Brian Cox and have a NASA app (I think he had a NASA app :suspect: )

And isn't this whole thing too unethical to carry out

[Kizzy]

It's crazy, all this to make some bloke be nicer to his mum?...
I missed an opportunity here, I could have said there you go son.. backchat your mother and zombies will eat you! haha

[Braden]

Surely he could hear Derren speaking to the girl through the earpiece? It was just the two of them and it was basically silence, he wasn't exactly speaking quietly iirc.

[GypsyGoth]

I think they made the sound of his voice louder for tv, in her earpiece I'm sure the volume was low.

[Ramsay]

He reacted in the exact way i was expecting, not having a clue what to do and it is how most people would react tbh. too shocked to do anything really

[arista]

I look Forward to next week

[Lee.]

Holy shakira! I just watched this! I don't even know how I felt about it.. it was so ridiculous I was laughing at bits, yet I felt so sorry for him that I actually cried when he found out his family were ok.

Can't wait till Friday though :)

[InOne]

I think he realised but if just playing along. There's lots of things that don't really make much sense.

[Smithy]

thought it was a load of **** tbh

[Glenn.]

Did anyone watch Misfits?

[Marsh.]

Omg, just been reading the thread for this on DS. Absolutely hilarious.

People defending that it's real and some of their reasoning is quite bizarre.

I thought it was fake from when they showed the "secret" footage from him at home. He was too kind of wooden and his reactions and the way he spoke was a little too self conscious as though he knew he was being watched.
Hard to explain but the way people's behaviour is different when they know they're being filmed. Not a very good actor, none of his expressions and lines sound natural, they all sound rehearsed and scripted.

[Marsh.]

Did anyone watch Misfits?

I watched this for the first time ever tonight.

I always thought I was missing out on a good show and would eventually get around to watching it. Switched it on and it's Eli Dingle from Emmerdale wanking and cutting someone's hand off.

Looked ****e TBH.

[Jack_]

WAS STEVEN AN ACTOR?

Despite conspiracy theories and rumours online, Steven is not a stooge, or an actor, or in any way just playing along. Same goes for his family and friends that you see in the programme. They’d all have to be actors too. And all his REAL family – and anyone that knows him – taken away and quietly killed. My shows always provoke a flurry of people insisting it’s all fake, and I’ve come to expect that – exhausting and hurtful though it can be after months and months of love and sweating blood to make such massively ambitious and heart-felt programmes.

I have never, ever used stooges or actors in that way. It’s artistically repugnant, lazy and just unnecessary. And impossible to pull off, as anyone that knows him would of course be able to say so. We spent months setting up Steven’s experience, getting his family on board, and spending a vast sum of money making it as convincing as possible for him, and all our efforts making sure that he experienced a real transformation. To fake all of that with an actor would be pointless. A few theories have sprung up online – firstly that he is a working actor who has appeared in a comedy ad. I’ve seen the ad – that is not Steven. That is an actor with dark eyebrows who does look hilariously like him, but isn’t:

Others have found a picture of Steven with Adam Buxton taken four years ago when Adam was filming a pilot in Steven’s home town. Steven was an audience member and had his photo taken with Adam. Standing with an actor in a photograph does not make you an actor. Adam says “He was not an acting in the pilot. He was in the audience.”

Lastly, concern has sprung up in some quarters because Steven had a profile page on a popular casting site where a lot of people of all ages put themselves up for extra work and crowd/audience stuff for TV shows (this was NOT how we found him but a lot of people sign up hoping to be on TV). He has since changed/tried to remove his profile as he was upset at the negative attention from people who took it to mean he was actually an actor.

Have received this unsolicited comment from Simon Dale who runs Casting Call Pro, the website in question:
“We’ve seen the rumours that a person on Derren Brown’s show is an actor, and all the tweets etc. surrounding it, and the media reporting of it.”
“Steve Brosnan is not, as far as we are aware, a professional actor. He created a profile on our site but never completed it, and didn’t upload any professional acting credits or a professional acting headshot – and so his profile was never ‘live’ on our system as he didn’t meet our joining criteria (i.e. he didn’t have professional acting training or experience).”

Aside from an ‘ensemble’ school production he has never, ever, ever acted. Even if he returns to this early interest in the future (his brother works as an occasional actor so it’s possible he might), it won’t mean he was acting in this show.

All the people who take part in these shows are 100% real. Matt Galley, from Hero at 30,000 ft had similar accusations of being a stooge, from similar conspiracy-driven quarters after his show. Part of the pity of these rumours are that it’s always hurtful for the participants involved who have been through an emotional, transformative experience, are feeling really good about themselves and have been looking forward to the show going out. It’s horrible.

Steven was chosen from thousands who applied to be part of the show, as we explained at the start. He was chosen because he was suggestible enough to allow me to put him asleep quickly, fit our desired profile of someone who took his life for granted, and yet was likeable enough to carry the show – a rare combination. His mum, dad and family are all real too. They are a family living in Buckinghamshire.

On another note – it simply wouldn’t be permissible now to pretend someone was a real member of the public if he or she was acting. Misleading the public in a TV show is a big deal, and a massive lie like that wouldn’t be permitted by the channel. But that’s beside the point: I just don’t use actors in that way. These stunts are not faked. You can just enjoy the show.

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see ya later haters.

Fed up with the endless assumption year after year that Derren's work is all staged and fake. So tiresome.

[InOne]

Still not totally convinced, that whole touching his head thing and putting him to sleep was very very dodgy.

[King Gizzard]

He's an illusionist. It's all staged and fake.

It's funny how he's got so worked up that he's had to make a video about it though :joker:

[Niamh.]

I thought it was common knowledge all that stuff was fake since he got caught by the balls in the Russian Roulette thing

[Marcus.]

I thought it was common knowledge all that stuff was fake since he got caught by the balls in the Russian Roulette thing

dp you know i like him untill that bit

[Lee.]

I thought Steve looked like Ben :)

[Niamh.]

dp you know i like him untill that bit

Yeah, me too

[InOne]

I thought it was common knowledge all that stuff was fake since he got caught by the balls in the Russian Roulette thing

What happened with that?

[Marsh.]

see ya later haters.

Fed up with the endless assumption year after year that Derren's work is all staged and fake. So tiresome.

He's an illusionist/magician. Of course it's staged and fake.

It's just lately his TV shows stretch believability, making the trick ultimately pointless.

His stage shows are still great though but he should scale back the TV ones, they get more and more idiotic and absurd.

[Niamh.]

What happened with that?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/oct/08/broadcasting.channel41

[Jack_]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/oct/08/broadcasting.channel41

I'm sure he claimed throughout the show that he was only using blanks, IIRC.

And if you shoot a blank through your head, there's still a chance you could die.

[Vicky.]

I think a blank that close to you would still do considerable damage, if not kill you..not sure though :/

[Niamh.]

hhmmm, I don't think he claimed that at all Jack, it was a big scandal that he denied at the time iirc

Either way I don't believe any of that hypnotizing s**te, 100% set up imo.

[arista]

Jack Edit your title : Final 2/11/12

Ch4HD 9PM Tonight

[Jack_]

There you go arista. Quite looking forward to tonight.

Derren tweeted a pic earlier with Steven and Matt (from Hero At 30,000 Feet) together. Thought it was quite nice.

Taking Matt Galley (from 'Hero') & Steven for lunch. Am slowly building an army. Lovely listening to them swap stories.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A6tCav8CIAAn4dC.jpg:large

[Marsh.]

Even if there is truth to some kind of hypnotism/conditioning it certainly isn't as easy as clicking your fingers and someone instantly falls unconscious.

If he could really achieve it he would be quite a force to be reckoned with, he'll have taken over. lol

[Jordan.]

On now :amazed:

[GypsyGoth]

:amazed:

[Marcus.]

here we go

[GypsyGoth]

Are you infected BB12?

[Marcus.]

Are you infected BB12?

with what

[GypsyGoth]

with what

What colour is your wristband??

[Jordan.]

Ian is a bit grumpy this week

[Jordan.]

I hope they put him up for eviction

[GypsyGoth]

I hope they put him up for eviction

:laugh2:

[Marcus.]

What colour is your wristband??

blue

[GypsyGoth]

blue

That's a relief, you're not infected then.

[Me. I Am Salman]

really dull compared to the last episode

[GypsyGoth]

really dull compared to the last episode

Yea, hopefully the new guy tries to kill them.

[Marcus.]

That's a relief, you're not infected then.

yeah are you

[GypsyGoth]

yeah are you

Yep, I'm infected and proud.

[Marcus.]

Yep, I'm infected and proud.

oh no run a way

[GypsyGoth]

oh no run a way

You're racist against the infected :hmph:

[Marcus.]

You're racist against the infected :hmph:

how i can stay but stay an arm whit away

[GypsyGoth]

This ep has finally got good.

[Ninastar]

its so damn fake

[Jordan.]

Swear I just saw a naked zombie

[Marcus.]

its so damn fake

what make you say that

[Braden]

This ended much nicer and different to how I expected.

[GypsyGoth]

All this so he will finally be nice to his mom.

[Ninastar]

lmfao how he just fell when he answered the phone

[GypsyGoth]

lmfao how he just fell when he answered the phone

:laugh2:

[Me. I Am Salman]

So fake, a normal person would have punched Derren's face

[Jordan.]

I think I pulled off my role as Leona rather well, didn't want to spoil the suprise :pipe:

[Me. I Am Salman]

(or at least show some of anger)

[GypsyGoth]

I think I pulled off my role as Leona rather well, didn't want to spoil the suprise :pipe:

:laugh3:

[Jordan.]

Wtf :joker:

[Jarrod]

The most mind blowing and amazing thing i have ever seen. Derren Brown never fails to impress me. I absolutely loved it

[Marsh.]

Lmao.

TV modernisation of the Wizard of Oz.

Load of crap.

[King Gizzard]

Yes tapping someone on the shoulder can totally knock them out for however long you want

If this type of hypnotism was real the evil minds of this world would be using it for their own personal gain

[King Gizzard]

Was quite funny in a comedic way the whole way through though

[Jack_]

A good two-parter on the whole. His most ambitious project undeniably but not as good as some of the others.

The Events remain the standout for me.

[Kizzy]

I flicked it on for 2 mins, saw some blair witch stylee snivelling into a camera....switched off again.