Penn & Teller Get Six-Part Series on ITV1

LONDON: ITV1 has commissioned September Films and 1/17 Productions to produce a 6×1-hour TV magic show, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, to be presented by Jonathan Ross.

The show invites aspiring magicians to perform tricks and try to fool the iconic duo. Anyone who succeeds wins the rights to perform with Penn & Teller in their Las Vegas stage show. Penn & Teller will have no prior knowledge of either the performers or the tricks planned. The six-part series will air in prime time on ITV1 later this year and is budgeted at more than £2 million. It follows on the success of the prime-time Penn & Teller special hosted by Ross in January. DCD Rights will be launching the 90-minute special and the six-hour series, as well as offering the format rights, worldwide at MIPTV.

Peter Davey, executive producer at DCD Media-owned September Films, said: "The special had an unbelievable response from the audience. It seems Penn, Teller, Jonathan and the Fool Us format have proved a truly magical combination."