{"id":2353,"date":"2013-11-04T11:06:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T10:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2013-11-04T11:06:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T10:06:31","slug":"derren-brown-the-great-art-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/derren-brown-the-great-art-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Derren Brown: The Great Art Robbery."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The UK’s greatest magician of today, Derren Brown<\/a> will return to our screens in December, on Channel 4 <\/a>in his brand new one-off special Derren Brown: The Great Art Robbery.<\/p>\n

In another innovative challenge, the master illusionist and showman plans to pull off the perfect crime. He\u2019s bet renowned art collector Ivan Massow that he can steal a painting from right under his nose. In true Derren style, he will tell Ivan exactly which painting he plans to target \u2013 a work by Turner-nominated British brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman no less \u2013 as well as what time the theft will happen. He\u2019ll even give him a photograph of the person that\u2019s going to take it.<\/p>\n

In order to pull off the theft Derren recruits a crew. But he\u2019s not going to use career criminals or skilled cat burglars. He\u2019s going to use members of society that tend to slip by unnoticed. He\u2019s going to use old age pensioners. Speaking about the challenge, Derren said \u201cThis has been nerve-wracking for me and my team, leaving such an extraordinary task entirely in the hands of a group of contributors to pull off. The idea was to use the fact that the elderly tend to be treated as invisible as a strength.”<\/p>\n

We can’t wait…<\/p>\n\n\n