He has controversially played Russian roulette on camera, held a seance and manipulated audience members into robbing a security van. Now Derren Brown is promising to predict the results of the National Lottery this Wednesday, and explain how to take down a casino. Presumably Channel 4's funding problems will soon be a distant memory – although Brown has apparently been banned by the broadcaster from buying a ticket.
You can hear more of Brown's plans via this videocast distributed this morning. (So that you're not disappointed: it's more of a recorded press release than insight into Brown's mind.) It sounds like heady stuff: ambitious, exciting and possibly unpredictable television – although the fact Brown says there will be a "special twist" to the casino event suggests it will not, in fact, be a how-to guide to break into a vault and run off with all the cash. Television, eh? All hype.
