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Dynamo: Magician Impossible lands fourth series, One Direction to star

Dynamo: Magician Impossible lands fourth series, One Direction to star

By  for Digital Spy

Dynamo: Magician Impossible has landed a fourth series on Watch – and One Direction will appear in the show.

Dynamo – whose real name is Steven Frayne – will travel to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, India, London and his home in the north of England during the new series.

As well as One Direction, stars such as Coldplay and Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan will be popping up in upcoming episodes.

“Dynamo is leading the regenerated interest in magic, with millions of fans around the world,” Watch’s general manager Steve North said. “As well as the mind-blowing magic, Dynamo: Magician Impossible is the amazing story of the man himself, and how his passion for illusion has rocketed him to international stardom.

"We are thrilled that Watch is the home of Dynamo and that we have brought the show to a global audience.”

The new series of Dynamo: Magician Impossible is due to air on Watch this autumn…

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Sneak Peek – Thursday’s Carbonaro Effect

Sneak Peek – Thursday’s Carbonaro Effect

The Carbonaro Effect – Thursday 7/24 @ 10pm

Trying his hand as an interior decorator, Michael hires a new assistant to ‘help’ him draw out the floor plan of the house he is remodeling. After checking all of the doors on the first floor, Michael tells his assistant to finish up the downstairs while he heads to the second floor. After seeing Michael walk up the stairs and close the door, his assistant tries to join him, only to open the exact same door to a closet. His assistant becomes incredibly confused and when Michael finally returns downstairs, she hilariously tells him “I’m sorry, I must have just had an acid trip!”  

Meet Channing Pollock..

Meet Channing Pollock..

By Glenn Kenny for the Criterion Collection.

When I was in high school in the late ’70s, one of my closest pals was a semiprofessional magician. A top-flight pianist as well, Charles was making some tidy sums as an entertainer in restaurants and clubs around North Jersey and New York well before he turned eighteen.Over the years, we lost touch, but we reconnected about a decade ago via Facebook, as one will. In one of our catch-up e-mail conversations, he asked me if I knew of what he called an “obscure” movie named Judex. Well, I responded glibly, I knew not one but two films with that title, the first a seminal serial from 1914 directed by Louis Feuillade, the second an early-’60s homage to the serial directed by Georges Franju, the French maestro behind such distinctive, disturbing works as Le sang des bêtes and Eyes Without a Face.

My friend Charles’s interest wasn’t entirely cinephilic, if at all. No, he was more keen on tracking down celluloid record of Channing Pollock, the American illusionist who plays the title role in Franju’s 1963 movie..

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