{"id":1385,"date":"2011-10-10T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2011-10-10T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T08:23:37","slug":"the-magicians-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/the-magicians-return\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magicians Return!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/8geTa.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/8geTa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcone\/magicians\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Magicians<\/a> has been recommissioned for a second series and will air live when it returns to BBC1 in January 2012, marking the first time a live magic show has been broadcast on TV in the UK in more than 30 years. The new season will also include live voting.<\/p>\n<p>The shows format will also be aired in over 50 territories around the world including New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Middle East, Portugal, Australia, Finland, Norway and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The first series of BBC1\u2019s Saturday night The Magicians, starred our very own <a href=\"http:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/performers\/luis-de-matos.html\" target=\"_blank\">Luis de Matos<\/a>, Chris Korn, comedy magic duo Barry &amp; Stuart with host, Lenny Henry.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the exact details are to be confirmed this coming series is expected to follow a similar format with three leading magicians competing across five weeks, performing with a different celebrity partner each week.<\/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%2Fthe-magicians-return%2F\" addthis:title=\"The+Magicians+Return%21\"><\/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>The Magicians has been recommissioned for a second series and will air live when it returns to BBC1 in January 2012, marking the first time a live magic show has been broadcast on TV in the UK in more than 30 years. The new season will also include live voting. The shows format will also [&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-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385"}],"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=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}