The precursor to his Events series airs this Wednesday (September 9) on Channel 4 at 10.35pm, the same time the National Lottery Draw transmits on BBC1. Brown’s stunt will then be followed up on Friday at 9pm with an hour-long show revealing how the illusion was achieved.

As ever, C4 has provided us with a corresponding trailer…

Details of The Events, which – despite press pointing towards Friday 11 September as the kick-off day, actually debuts with a short live broadcast on C4 on Wednesday 9 September – are still being kept under wraps. But before we speculate further, here’s that trailer…

So what do we know? The first episode, is the most intriguing; Brown stating “if it got out beforehand, we’d probably be stopped from doing it.” However, National Lottery-related iconography – and numbers – in the trail are hinting at some sort of Lotta-related stunt. Perhaps Derren’s hoping to get us all to bet on the same numbers.

Event #2 is shaping up to be a variant of a trick performed at his recent stage show, Enigma, where members of the audience were compelled to rise to their feet. Except, this time, he claims he’ll be causing viewers at home to become stuck to their sofa.

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The third Event is provisionally titled ‘How to Fool the CIA’, and is Brown’s take on the phenomenon of ‘remote viewing’, while the fourth… well, nothing’s been forthcoming on that.

“In the modern world of mass communication and big business,” says Brown, “simple tricks can be developed to make even the most secure of systems vulnerable when you know where to push.”

Details are scarce about Derren Brown’s upcoming C4 special, The Events, but this afternoon OTT has been sent three dimension-bending clips by way of trailers. So, let’s have a look.

The weirdness, it seems, is going on behind Derren.

Messing about with gravity, perhaps?

And whatever’s happening here is really subtle.

Although TV listings magazines for The Events‘ transmission week are currently being worked on, actual information about the show’s content is proving hard to find (C4 promises more will be forthcoming later in the week).

Nonetheless, the special has clearly been scheduled for September for some time. Back in June, Brown gave out enigmatic cards – stating: “DERREN BROWN THE EVENTS 09.09″ – at his theatre show, Enigma, in London. And surely the fact that the date inverted is 666 must be part of the strategy.