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tells viewers, and a crowd in the museum, to draw what they imagine the design (which he says is likely to be "shapes interacting") to be, during the following advertising break. After the break, Brown asks viewers to stop drawing, and says that museum staff will now examine the suggestions of the crowd and those left by visitors.
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Footage from early September, when Brown asked the museum's curator to paint and wrap the design, is shown. After the film, Derren talks to Katie, who is in an isolation tank in an unknown location, and says that she will "mentally project" the image to viewers; the camera zooms in to her eyes. He
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for a week: only museum curator Katie, who drew it, knows what the "simple design" on it is. Brown describes how, for the week that it was on display, people who visited the museum or the experiment's website could guess what the design was. He instructs viewers to have a pen and paper ready, and
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In a segment recorded before an audience, Brown appears to make bricks disappear and reappear in a box by clicking his fingers, and two volunteers experience the perceived difference in weight as he does so. He opens the box, and demonstrates it to be empty: he says that this technique of
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At the museum, it is revealed that approximately 30–35% of people there drew concentric circles. The museum rejoins Katie, and the painting is opened: it is of circles, and she says that she thought of Stonehenge, which about made up around 10% of drawings in the museum.
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Heidi Stephens commented that the special was "really interesting, and worth it just for Daniel and his sonar, but I'm feeling a bit short-changed". She also noted that the concentric circles design was present in the museum's decor and the shot of Katie's eyes.
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Derren reveals that the museum scenes are being recorded three weeks prior to the broadcast, and that small advertisements instructing readers to draw circles will appear in major British newspapers (
414:; it ran for one hour, including three advertising breaks. The special was viewed by 1.8 million people, a significant drop from Brown's previous special, " 611: 601: 233:" between Russia and the United States in the 1960s and 70s, and how they spent millions of dollars on developing "superhuman powers" during the 616: 49:
The programme involved viewers guessing the design on a concealed painting, which was revealed to be concentric circles in the style of
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A segment entitled "The Mirror Man" is shown, in which Brown influences a member of the public to subconsciously
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introduces a picture, wrapped in newspaper, that has been standing on a closed bridge in London's
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on 25 September 2009 at 9 pm, and later made available on the channel's catch-up service,
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in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2009, when it was viewed by 1.8 million people.
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In the museum, four designs are revealed to be the most prevalent: concentric circles,
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television series. In the programme, supposedly as part of an experiment into
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needle with her hands, thus beginning competition with the American
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to sense his surroundings by making clicks with his mouth.
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Index

Derren Brown: The Events
frameless
Stonehenge
Derren Brown
Andy Nyman
How to Control the Nation
How to Take Down a Casino
Derren Brown
The Events
remote viewing
Channel 4
Derren Brown
Science Museum
remote viewing
propaganda
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
arms race
Cold War
KGB
Nina Kulagina
compass
CIA
magnets
light bulb
confirmation bias
psychics
paranormal
mirror his actions
Tottenham Court Road
Horses of Helios

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