QUOTE(Matthew @ VTM Home, 01-27-07)
The BBC announced that they are planning to launch a reality show later this year called "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" later this year, which will "follow a group of children learning magic at a Harry Potter-style boarding school."
The fourteen children on the show will learn card tricks and other magic tricks, which they will then perform in front of "magic mentors," who will judge them. According to the BBC, "the children watching at home will also get to learn magic tricks, in an accompanying morning series - which is yet to be named.
"The magic mentors will give away their secrets and perform step-by-step guides, so children can learn and perform the tricks themselves."
The fourteen children on the show will learn card tricks and other magic tricks, which they will then perform in front of "magic mentors," who will judge them. According to the BBC, "the children watching at home will also get to learn magic tricks, in an accompanying morning series - which is yet to be named.
"The magic mentors will give away their secrets and perform step-by-step guides, so children can learn and perform the tricks themselves."
Can you imagine how this will fuel religious fanatics to burn books? (No pun intended...) It's insane!
I wonder what the BBC were thinking.
I don't mind this show - if Harry Potter hadn't existed, it would have been called 'Who wants to be Houdini?', but I can already see how zealots will sweep up en masse to protest. This will make for fun, I think, especially when Laura Mallory catches wind of it.And can you imagine how it will spike the hype surrounding the last book? I think JK Rowling is laughing her head off. She couldn't have asked for better publicity!
Britons have a very dfferent approach to witchcraft - the strong Pagan roots, eh? But perhaps foreigners will make more of it? Probably not. It is very good that Laura Mallory doesn't live there, then.