List of Derren Brown shows

Andy Nyman was originally intended to front the programme, but he wanted to concentrate on acting so Brown was recommended to the producers by comedian and close-up magician Jerry Sadowitz.

In an episode first broadcast on Friday 6 May 2005, Brown claimed to have created a video game called Waking Dead which "is able to put roughly 1/3 of the people who play it into a catatonic trance".

Brown then "kidnaps" the catatonic "victim" and places him in a real-life recreation of the video game, having him fire a paintball marker at actors pretending to be zombies and outfitted with explosive squibs.

On 26 July 2007, the US based SCI FI Channel began showing six one-hour episodes of a series titled Mind Control with Derren Brown.

Filmed for Channel 4 in front of a live studio audience, this new series, airing in September 2009[5] was made up of four one-hour specials, during which Brown attempted what he described as "some of the most incredible feats to date".

The show consisted of a mixture of pre-recorded location pieces connected by theatre-based segments, with each of the four one-hour programmes building up to a major stunt performance.

The first episode, entitled "The Assassin", aired on 21 October 2011 and consisted of Brown successfully hypnotising an unwitting member of the public to 'assassinate' a celebrity revealed to be Stephen Fry.

Brown hosted a show purportedly called "Remote Control", asking a masked audience to vote for the escalating fate of a contestant in an attempt to demonstrate the effect of deindividuation.

In the fourth episode, "The Secret of Luck" which aired on 11 November 2011, Brown spread a rumour of a lucky-dog statue throughout the entire population of a town and documented the consequences.

The stunt was performed at an undisclosed location, supposedly in Jersey, due to laws in mainland Britain restricting the firing of live rounds to qualified armourers.

Most of the show involved the selection of a volunteer to assist Brown, who apparently would risk firing a live round into his own head, in a game of Russian Roulette.

He held the event at Elton Hall in east London, claiming the location had a history of paranormal activity after 12 people killed themselves there in a suicide pact in 1974.

Brown also warned viewers about the impending ouija board scene, advising those who objected for "religious reasons or otherwise" to stop watching the show.

This contained a card listing the page number and coordinate of the destination, an acetate with the route marked on it and a receipt for £8 (the estimated cost of the journey by the driver).

[15] The robbery involved holding up a security van and guard (played by an actor) using a realistic-looking toy pistol that Brown had given the subjects earlier, and stealing a case filled with real money.

Brown associated colours, music and phrases to build the participants into a highly motivated state, converging all of those psychological empowerment tools into a single set-up.

After having previously been convinced to steal sweets from a shop based in Codicote High Street in Hertfordshire, they experienced the euphoria that could be gained from criminal acts.

[18] At the end of the show, a title card explained that "at each stage of the process, participants who did not make it to the next round were offered a complete refund of any bets they had placed.

The programme was divided into chapters to introduce different stages in the transformation, many of which were undertaken without the subject knowing of Brown's involvement (via cooperation with Galley's parents and girlfriend to set up cameras in his house).

Galley, who had not been on a plane in ten years and had a fear of flying, boarded a flight travelling from Leeds to Jersey, where he had been told that a fake game-show presented by Brown was to be filmed.

Steven supposedly woke up two weeks after the disaster in an abandoned military hospital to find that he is one of a group of survivors now living in a zombie wasteland.

The placebo effect, amplified by the convincing façade of Cicero, helps most of the subjects of the fake clinical trial of Rumyodin overcome their fears.

It is shown that Brown repeated the experiment with separate groups, to each of whom it was claimed Rumyodin had different beneficial effects, such as smoking cessation and allergy relief, again with positive results.

Brown then reveals that the same process was applied to the other three unsuspecting finalists, who are shown through a series of clips to have all pushed the donor to his apparent death (prevented through the use of a safety harness).

Closing the show, Brown urges viewers to push back against any group or ideology which seeks to manipulate them through the evolutionary power of social conformity.

Derren Brown, Mind Reader – An Evening of Wonders, initially toured for 42 dates from 29 April 2007 in Blackpool, and ended 17 June in Bristol.

It began in Chatham on Friday 17 April 2009, visiting various UK towns before ending in London with a month at the Adelphi Theatre starting Monday 15 June 2009.

Derren Brown's fifth tour, entitled Svengali, opened on 9 March 2011 in Brighton and ran until 11 August 2012, finishing up with a second London run at the Novello Theatre.

[33] Derren Brown's seventh live stage show, Miracle was filmed for television in London's Palace Theatre and first broadcast on Channel 4 on 10 October 2016.

It was later extended to a full tour in the UK, which commenced after Brown returned to the country from 'Secret', followed by a run at the Playhouse Theatre in the London's West End.