Phenomenon (2007)

Genre

reality television

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 5 episodes

Rating

1.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Ten mentalists compete in challenges before celebrity guests. A live audience votes for a winner who gets $250,000. The judges openly debate whether the acts are real or tricks.

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What happens

Phenomenon is an American television competition program judged by mystifier Uri Geller and illusionist Criss Angel and hosted by Tim Vincent which debuted live on Wednesday, October 24, 2007, on NBC. The program featured ten contestants competing to become the next great mentalist, to be determined by viewers voting by phone and online. The contestants performed their effects on celebrity guests each week. The winner of Phenomenon would win $250,000. On October 30, 2007, during an interview with Larry King about the show, Angel said "No one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead. And that was what I said I was going to do with Phenomenon. If somebody goes on that show and claims to have supernatural psychic ability, I'm going to bust them live and on television." The winner of the first season was Mike Super. The program was cancelled on April 2, 2008, after NBC announced its 2008–2009 schedule. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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