Penn & Teller ‘Fool Us’ and eastenders babygate!
January 10, 2011 shannabarnarna
So if you live in the UK on 07/01/11 (Friday) Penn (@pennjillette)&Teller (@MrTeller) brought a show to ITV 1 called ‘fool us’. Penn and Teller are two magicians, Who occasionally reveal how the tricks are done(although some people dont agree with it I personally think its a clever way to keep your audience involved and also its something different) Now for those of you who don’t know which is Penn and which is teller then remember this: Penn is the tall one with Black hair who does all the talking, Teller is the shorter of the two who rarely speaks. Penn & Teller are most well known for their gory tricks and their choice to sometimes reveal how tricks are done.
Terller rarely talks in the act Penn & Teller, This stems from when he was first trying out magic at parties and noticed that if he was silent people concentrated more on the tricks rather then heckling him. Penn & Teller dont only do magic, they are writers and host a variety of tv shows.
Now about the show, A few magicians were fighting for the opportunity to grab a guest spot on Penn & Tellers Las Vegas show! To win this amazing prize Penn and Teller had to be fooled by the magician. The show was hosted by Jonathan Ross (@wossy).
Two of the magicians got through with their tricks,The first to get through was A comedian magician who had a group of envelopes. One envelope had £100 cash! the other envelopes had fake money bills with his face on. each envelope had a different word on and the magician gave audience members the chance to choose a envelope. None of the audience members found the £100. This trick fooled Penn & Teller, it seriously had them stumped, they examined the envelopes and still could not figure it out.
The second magician to get through did close up card tricks. He had Penn & Teller help him out, and also had them up on the stage(Penn & Teller sat in the audience to watch most acts, unless required on stage). You could clearly see Penn and Teller each watching a hand. To cut a long story short Penn & Teller thought they knew how the trick had been done, but it was confirmed by the adjudicators that Penn & Tellers thoughts were wrong.Neither of them could explain the trick and so this magician got in.
Also on the show Penn & Teller did a couple of tricks. Now I admit I had heard of Penn & Teller (from various tv shows when I was younger including Sabrina the teenage witch) and had also seen them do a couple of tricks on old old tv, but seeing as most of my life they haven’t performed in the UK i hadn’t really seen that many of their tricks. But after watching Fool Us on itv1 I have been youtubing Penn & Teller clips. And my oh my are they good! I love the fact that they explain how they’ve done things and I love how they don’t care that some people don’t agree with their methods.
Id love to go and see Penn & Teller live (I know this has nothing to do with the program) but the program just made me want to go even more! A friend said to me that if i ever get married and Penn & Teller are still live in vegas we will go to vegas for a hen week and see them live. Now I just need to find a husband.
Anyway back to the show,The editing was really well done, and all in all I think the show worked really well and I’d love to see more Penn & Teller in the UK! Oh and Jonathan Ross did a good job presenting.
^A clip from Penn & Teller ‘Fool Us’
Ok Now onto EastEnders. As many of you may know theres been a conterversial story line recently.to put it simply Ronnie Branning and Kat Moon both had baby boys. Kats little bundle of Joy was called Tommy and Ronnie’s bundle of joy was called James (after Jim, Jacks farther)
All sounds simple and fairly normal right? WRONG! Ronnies baby James sadly died of cot death, And if youve watched eastenders over the past couple of years you will know Ronnie had a baby when she was a teenager, (a girl) and when her daughter was grown up she came looking for Ronnie and admitted Ronnie was her mother, moments before she was killed. So anyway Ronnies baby James dies and she panics, goes to the Vic(the pub) to get help.
She walks upstairs and goes into the Moons bedroom, where she sees a alive Tommy crying in his Moses basket.As Ronnies in a state she swaps the babies, so she ahs the live Tommy and Kat has James.
So to cut a long story short Ronnies suffering grief and guilt and Kat is suffering grief, pushing everyone away. Now it all sounds simple right? well as expected its tv, in the UK which naturally means there will be complaints, however this story line has had a record number of complaints and the story has been cut short and the actress who plays Ronnie is leaving Eastenders, (not to do with the storyline apparently). Some people feel that the story makes all new mothers who loose a baby seem mentally unstable and that the script writers could of handled it better. And other people think its a striking piece of tv which brings real life issues to the attention of the viewers.
I personally feel that the story has been shot well, but I do think the script could of been tweaked a little and the story changed in places. Apart from a few things to do with the script I think it has been shot really well, the cast are doing an amazing job of portraying this real life issue. I dont think it makes all grieving mothers look mentally unstable as if you have watched the show before you will see Ronnie has had a lot to happen to her to make her act this way.
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