more content in German | mehr Inhalt auf deutschA few Lego links:
- A minifigure as tourist in Portsmouth (via 1000steine)
- A giant Hogwarts made of 400000 bricks (with interview)
- A beautiful insect collection.
Und nun zwei Videos ohne Plastiksteine:
Links and Videos of the Week (2013/09+10)
Links and Video of the Week (2011/22)
- Nice photos “using” the moon” (via Th.Schwarz)
- Amazing tattoos (some NSFW)
- Magic features on the iPad
(via viele…)
Projekt 52/40: Jinxed
The next topic of Projekt 52.
- like Magica de Spell with the Ducks in Don Rosa’s comic “A Matter of Some Gravity” [↩]
“The Next Uri Geller” 2009 – Summary and Statistics
This is a report about one of the German second season shows from 2009. You may also:
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So Jan Becker, “the master of thoughts” with the apostrophe haircut, is the winner of the title and the 100,000 Euro prize money. With his combination of magic tricks, cold reading and overly pompous pep talk, he seems to have appealed to the audience (always assuming the results were not manipulated), but rather appaled me… Though through this talk he somehow is a “worthy” successor to Uri Geller in a stricter sense.
Well, successor – successor to Vincent Raven, last year’s winner (who didn’t get fit quickly enough after his stroke to compete as originally planned), successor to Geller himself who however doesn’t seem to have any plans to retreat from stage, thus not really needing a successor at all. But the show needs a title. Even better would have been a kind of “Germany’s magic idol”, I think – no “mysterious powers” jabbering, no Geller’s dumbing of the masses, but simply honest magic art fascination. But that’d be nothing interesting for ProSieben, and they wouldn’t have attracted a known name like Uri Geller to advertise the show. Then again, he’s rather got the qualities of a red rag now, I guess. Maybe he’ll find a new home on Astro-TV…
A reason for Ully Loup’s, probably quite a few viewers’ favorite, loss yesterday was probably that he just did some little electricity game that didn’t fit the image as “madman” with hidden emotions that he built over the course of this season at all. I generally don’t like the way they did it with taped performances in the final, anyway.
At any rate, the show got what it deserved, that is:
Ratings
Blue lines: all viewers; orange lines: target audience aged 14-49:
The best ratings this year (at the 1st show) were lower than the worst ratings last year, and they didn’t improve even for the final – so it would really be a miracle if there will be a third season. (Cf. press reports below). They didn’t say anything about it in the show yesterday.
Also, some shows were shorter than planned, there was no long overtime like last year.
Page accesses
No detailed statistics this year, I just want to mention that the number of page views for my reports were clearly below those of last year too. However I still could note several hundred views per show with 40–75 simultaneously during the shows – so here again thank you for reading and commenting.
Press reports
All are German reports, title and quotes my translation:
Monsters & Critics: «The next Uri Geller» will be the last one:
The TV station ProSieben does not make an official statement about ending the show, a spokeswoman only said: «We will continue to work with Uri Geller.»
In general, that may sound horrible – just think about the terrible alien show – but given the ratings, I don’t think there will be a lot to follow.
Even though the then ProSieben boss Andreas Bartl grandly announced in spring 2008 to have made a long-term contract with Uri Geller and plan more projects with him – a continuation for “The Next Uri Geller” is highly unlikely, given the miserable ratings this year.
Quotenmeter: Uri Geller also fails in the final
See also:
- My pre-show report with all ten contestants.
- Skeptic’s dictionary: Uri Geller.
- ProSieben page about the show (German).
» Go to all my posts about Uri Geller. «
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“The Next Uri Geller” 2009 final – Opinion, tricks, explanations
This is a report about one of the German second season shows from 2009. You may also:
» Display all my reports about this season 2.
» Display everything about the first season 2008.
» Display all articles about Uri Geller.
Time for the final tonight (finally!) – “the viewers will decide who will win the title and 100,000 Euro” –, and the three finalists out of the originally 10 contestants are:
Manuel Horeth – wants to start “an impossible mission” “aside from the stage” –, Jan Becker – wants to “create a lifetime connection between two people” (oh dear, that’s gonna be a long show) – and Ully Loup – who allegedly “has only one true friend”, his dog Sina, and who “wants to raise emotions” in his audience, today again with contacting “the crown prince of hell” (see Pro7 newsflashes).
Also the Hungarian David Merlini, invited by Uri Geller, will perform a “spectacular escapologist act – playing a dangerous game with fire”. Or a “specatucular” act, according to the press release. His extreme achievements so far are said to be:
He holds the underwater world record (20 minutes, 39 seconds), spent 33 hours tied in a block of ice and already covered a 100 meter distance in a burning car.
Celebrities today: Presenter Charlotte Engelhardt, presenter Matthias Opdenhövel and actress Julia Stinshoff.