Derren Brown's Lottery Predictions: BBC/C4 Split-Screen

A split-screen, as-live comparison between What Was Happening On BBC One While Derren Brown Was Doing His Thing On Channel Four (or in this case, More4), and Derren Brown Doing His Thing On Channel Four. Or in this case, More4. This proves that, yes, it was properly live. My guess for how it was *really* done: E-ink on Derren's balls. And that's not a sentence you get to use very often outside of the 'adult entertainment' industry, is it?

Actually, he probably had just concealed an invisible man inside Camelot HQ, who'd then clambered inside the machine at 10.25pm. Tsk, what a cheat, eh?

ANYWAY, More4 on the left, with sound, muted BBC One feed on right.

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• derren
• brown
• lottery
• prediction
• simulcast
• brokentv

[CutaayBrianaau477]

lol really lonely anyone up for cam chat or phone

[AVFCtombo]

not a random guy off the street.

been famous for yearsss

[yeeeeahdroppingteam]

Not as good as the stuff in the Mindreading Exposed ebook

[FlashJack85]

The easiest way to make an accurate "prediction" is make it after the event has already taken place. "Oh, yeah, I knew that was going to happen." The bit about Camelot's legal right "to announce the winning lottery numbers first" is pure bs. A prediction is never an "announcement" by definition it's only a speculation. So he's only buying time to switch the balls using split screens and giving a rationale why he can't show you beforehand his "prediction."

[boioioing123]

The camera shake is clearly intentional and unnecessary. It can only be there to give the illusion that the film could not possibly be tampered with. Otherwise, why not just use a damn tripod? The "shake" is probably done with software, so as to still be able to perform the split screen tricks.

This is also supported by the fact that the balls are painfully far away from any sort of action that would reveal the camera trick if he should step in front.

[kshwatch]

Totally staged...how can he expect anyone to believe that

[BillMan2002]

If you want to prove it, why wouldnt you buy the lottery ticket with the winning numbers on it? Cashing in the ticket would kinda prove it.

[GrimsAssistant]

The lottery numbers BBC announces: 23 35 11 28 39 02. English people are so stupid.

[bulamatadi01]

And why he can't at least promptly write down every number with any comment? Why he needs to keep still till the end of the drawing? Evidently, they did need something like a freezed image of all that they had prepared before, while the tv-panel can easily proceed with the show by blue-blox-techniques (like in news-broadcasting- or weather-forecast-shows) to pretend: "It's absolutely live!" Why he needs to lay such emphasis on a (pretended) fact, if all would be live indeed? It's also just NLP.

[bulamatadi01]

And above all of it: The stringency, that he doesn't know any of the numbers even after they were drawn, is? Have a guess! Note, how much he must keep an eye on the screen to write down, what he allegedly has had to have in mind already for any prediction. Doesn't he know the numbers before? Why he needs to watch than, what he allegedly knew already before? Did he forget his own predicted numbers, while he was watching the real draw? Just a further attempt of a quite nice but common illusion ;-)