{"id":1011,"date":"2010-12-06T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2011-01-04T15:57:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T14:57:33","slug":"bbc-the-magicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/bbc-the-magicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenny Henry to host BBC:The Magicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/magicians.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1014\" title=\"magicians\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/magicians.jpg\" alt=\"The Magicians\" width=\"446\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/magicians.jpg 446w, https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/magicians-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actor and comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lennyhenry.com\/home\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Lenny Henry<\/a> has been chosen to host <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">BBC One&#8217;s <\/a>new Saturday night entertainment spectacular, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcone\/magicians\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Magicians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The show will air in January 2011 with an exciting line-up of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/close-up-magician.html\" target=\"_blank\">magicians<\/a>, including sleight of hand expert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easystreetmagic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Korn<\/a>, illusionist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luisdematos.pt\/index2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Luis de Matos<\/a>, and innovative magical duo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barryandstuart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barry and Stuart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Each act will perform with a different guest partner each week, with the three pairs performing magic from the classic to the never-attempted-before. The guests include N-Dubz, Ashley Banjo, Chris Tarrant, Rolf Harris, Samantha Womack, Bruno Tonioli, Adrian Edmondson, Peter Jones and Neil Morrissey just to name a few.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIf you hurry you may still be able to book tickets to the second live recording at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/showsandtours\/shows\/venues\/pinewood_studios\" target=\"_blank\">Pinewood Studios <\/a>on Tuesday 7th December at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.applausestore.com\/applausestore-book-show.php?id=195&amp;bid=1\" target=\"_blank\">The Applause Store website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/<!--\nvar addthis_append_data = 'false';\n\/\/-->\n<\/script>\n<div class=\"addthis_container\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=wp-4c32e42a5d9c79e6\" class=\"addthis_button\" addthis:url=\"https%3A%2F%2Fmagicians.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fbbc-the-magicians%2F\" addthis:title=\"Lenny+Henry+to+host+BBC%3AThe+Magicians\"><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#username=wp-4c32e42a5d9c79e6\"><\/script><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Button END -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor and comedian Lenny Henry has been chosen to host BBC One&#8217;s new Saturday night entertainment spectacular, The Magicians. The show will air in January 2011 with an exciting line-up of magicians, including sleight of hand expert Chris Korn, illusionist Luis de Matos, and innovative magical duo, Barry and Stuart. Each act will perform with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}