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Derren Brown: The EventsEvent 1 – How to Win The LotteryFilmed for Channel 4 in front of a live studio audience, this new series, the first episode of which aired on 11 September 2009 at 21:00 is made up of four one hour specials, during which Derren will attempt what he has described as “some of the most incredible feats to date”. The show will consist of a mixture of pre-recorded location pieces connected by theatre-based segments, with each of the four one-hour programmes building up to a major stunt performance. The first teasers broadcast were shown backwards. When played forwards, Derren explains that in his new series he will be revealing the “Inner workings” of his tricks and “Showing you how to get away with it”. Brown also mentions misdirection – an area of illusionism once performed by the likes of Houdini.One of these stunts will be to incapacitate viewers, making them feel that they are stuck to their sofa, using a subliminal video. This, however, has been claimed to be unsafe, and is due to be looked into and possibly removed from the final broadcasting.On 9 September 2009, Brown conducted a live TV broadcast in which he suggested that he had successfully predicted the winning National Lottery numbers prior to them being drawn. During the broadcast a number of blank lottery balls were displayed on a glass stand in clear view of the camera, and after the lottery draw had been made, the balls were rotated to reveal the winning numbers. It was claimed by Brown that the only other people in the studio were two camera operators, to avoid legal issues, and that the stunt had been authorised by Camelot, the National Lottery operators.