Is the show back on the air or something, or did I fall into a time portal and emerges several years in the past?
The CW picked up the US rights:
http://dcdrights.com/news/penn-teller-fool-us-to-air-on-us-television/
I don’t get why P&T are promoting the show as if it were brand new. The point of the show was that the winners would go with them to Vegas. Didn’t they go three years ago when the show was first run? Won’t people now be expecting to see the winners? Are they bringing them back for a second performance? What’s the payoff here?
Ahh thanks, that makes sense. Damn, was hoping it was renewed for a 2nd season
I’ve been watching Penn and Teller for 35 years, and making “mistakes” that are obvious to the audience has always been a part of their act.
Would still leave the problem of Penn communicating to Teller the value of the cut-to card.
[spoiler]IMO the most likely method used is a stacked deck and two false shuffles (first time T second time P).
Curiously, having watched the video again, there’s one detail I *think *I clocked in the video that makes me believe they did something VERY quick and dirty for the second card which precluded the need for Teller to communicate to the band, but which made Penn’s handling a lot harder.[/spoiler]
Absolutely.
They’re so young!
My hope is that it does well and the CW commissions a new series. I think Penn and Teller loved the show and would do it. It has to be fun watching non-famous magicians do great magic, even if they know how a lot of the tricks are done.
The next day Penn was discussing the show with Opie on Sirius. The CW is broadcasting the show edited for US TV. If is does ok there will be an American filmed second season.
On the show he also talked briefly about being doing this trick on tv the night before. He was happy they were able to do a more subtle trick than they have in the past. He said because Seth is a fan. He also said it was much more difficult than anything they did in their show. I don’t think it was as simplistic as some here are making it seem.
So why not say so on network tv? Watch the show so we can make another season! That’s normal publicity.
I’ve even heard that the short one can talk.
It was
a) exactly as simplistic as I made out, or
b) P&T wasted a lot of effort creating an uber-complicated effect that looks exactly like a rather straightforward effect.
Of course, the latter is a possibility, but seriously, why would they bother?
Speaking of possibilities, is it possible that what Penn says in interviews about their own performed illusions doesn’t necessarily correspond to reality?
New thread for this series run on CW.
A lot of the new show is magicians doing the same tricks but in a new way. So they are making it complicated so they can fool just a small segment of the population that reads esoteric magic books.