Derren Brown: The Specials

This stunt is dangerous and was performed by professionals. It should never be copied. Derren Brown performs a highly dangerous feat - Russian Roulette, live.

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Derren brings together 12 members of the public to re-create a seance, and uses his skills and showmanship to challenge some of the most prevalent myths of spiritualism

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Derren Brown takes his debunking mission to America. In a country where he's unknown, he demonstrates how easy it is to dupe people into believing five impossible things (almost) before breakfast.

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Be prepared for plenty of Derren Brown's brand of magic and mind-games in a specially made recording of a live show shot in a mystery location with an invited audience

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Can Derren persuade any of his group of responsible, middle-management businessmen and women to steal £100,000 in an armed robbery?

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Derren Brown invents a system to beat the bookmakers and predict the outcome of six horse races, ultimately convincing a participant to place their life savings on one final race

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Derren attempts to control the nation and literally stick viewers to their sofas

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Derren conducts a nationwide experiment in remote viewing - do psychic powers exist?

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Derren tries to beat the roulette table - with help from an unsuspecting viewer

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Derren helps a member of the public face their fears to go on an amazing journey. Will they rise to his life-changing challenge?

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Derren allows TV cameras unprecedented access into his private life to meet his family, friends, closest collaborators and celebrity fans, from Stephen Fry to Matt Lucas

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Derren Brown investigates hypnosis and asks if someone could be hypnotised into killing a celebrity. Is this really possible? And who will be the celeb?

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Derren asks if we all have the capacity for evil and whether being part of a group affects our sense of right and wrong

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An unwitting participant is placed at the centre of an elaborate, hidden-camera murder mystery. Can Derren convince him to admit to murder?

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Derren asks what makes some people lucky while others attract misfortune, as he and Dawn Porter try to convince an entire town that a local statue has special powers

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Derren unleashes an audacious plan to convince one person that a catastrophic meteorite strike has devastated the planet and zombies roam the land. In 2020, viewers voted it Derren's greatest stunt.

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In this concluding episode, the unwitting participant continues his adventure in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by the infected, as he hurtles towards the thrilling climax of his own horror story

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The first part of a two-part event, Fear and Faith is an extraordinary film looking at what happens when people have the experience of fear removed through the use of a powerful new drug

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In the finale of Fear and Faith, Derren looks at the psychology of religious belief, performs a satanic rite and attempts to give an atheist a religious conversion

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Master illusionist and showman Derren Brown plans to pull off the perfect crime. He's made a bet with renowned art collector Ivan Massow that he can steal a painting from right under his nose.

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Derren investigates the powers of social compliance via Chris Kingston, a 29-year-old member of the public who is unaware he's being filmed or manipulated at a distance

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