Ms. Blackstone announced she would soon be taping the 13 episodes for the Fox MyChannel network and invited Inside Magic readers to attend.
We received inquiries from readers about the performers committed to appear on the series and are happy to report Mark and Shelia Cannon will be taping their contribution tomorrow, November 20th.
Ms. Blackstone has always had a special place in our pantheon of Magic Greats.
Similarly, Mark and Shelia Cannon are exactly what we hope to be when we grow up — well at least Mark Cannon. We have worked through many issues related to maturity and gender role models.
Mark and Shelia Cannon put on one of the best Escape shows we have ever seen and we have seen plenty.
Their on-stage personae genuinely reflect their off-stage ethos of hard work, sincerity and incredible skill.
Theirs is one of the very few acts to bring our blood pressure into the very unsafe range. We were worried sick until it was over and Mark Cannon emerged alive.
We were going to blame it on a typo but knew we would be caught out. How can someone mean to type “Tim Ellis and Sue-Anne Webster” but instead type “Dr. Alexander”?
In yesterday’s award-winning article about India television and Dr. Alexander, we did not do our fact checking.
We wrote, with our typical aplomb:
We hear that Dr. Alexander – Guiness World Record Holder for the the Longest Magic Show – will perform on the series.
Yes, Dr. Alexander will appear on the series but he is not the Guiness World Record Holder for the Longest Magic Show.
Even as we typed the Dr. Alexander story, we seemed to remember reading some where about an attempt at the Guiness World Record for Longest Show being performed by Tim Ellis and Sue-Anne Webster.
Maybe it was on one of those message boards or a mailing list, we thought.
We could not remember where we read that Tim Ellis and Sue-Anne Webster held the Guiness World Record and, in fact, had beaten Dr. Alexander’s own record.
If Inside Magic was not so firmly ensconced in Mystic Hollow, Michigan, we would pull up the Double Wide O’ Magic and move it to India or Las Vegas — the two hot spots for magic these days.
Vijay TV plans almost non-stop coverage of magic in India for the next little while. The series Mayalogam will mix celebrities and magicians in a non-stop showcase for India’s top performers.
The premise behind Mayalogam is very cool.
We learned more about the series and the word Mayalogam while surfing The Indya Star website.
Mayalogam is ruled by a pompous but skinny Raja Nakimukki. He is accompanied by his bulbous Rani Minnal Idaiyal who is engrossed with her own beauty with an unquenchable desire to be entertained. They are always accompanied by their dwarf ministers who try their best to entertain the Queen, but fail to do the same.
Apasara Mayakani, the story teller comes to their rescue every week by kidnapping some of the best magicians from the real world to showcase their acts to liven Mayalogam.
Inside Magic Favorite, the beautiful Gay Blackstone always has something interesting going on. We learned of her newest project as Executive Producer for a new 13-part Magic television series set to air on Fox MyNetwork in 2009.
I would like to personally invite you and your families to join me for a MAGICAL Television event.
With the success of the 2008 World Magic Awards, Associated Television International, some of the brightest names in magic and myself, the Executive Producer of this event, are bringing to Television a 13 part MAGIC series airing on Fox MyNetwork beginning January 2009.
It is a short answer and gets us out of writing a big, long-winded piece on the legalities but perhaps inadequate.
The BBC’s homepage today features Magician and Lawyer Guy Hollingworth to entertain and teach on the issue of what the law has to say about an art designed to avoid laws of nature. (They call him a “Barrister” – we presume that is the metric equivalent of our “Lawyer”)
It is comforting to see that the country from which we have derived the greater part of our legal system, has not backslid into the easy but philosophically unsound world where an idea can be protected. The United Kingdom wants to encourage innovation but draws understands it must draw the line somewhere.
In the case of magic tricks, one can patent the method to perform the effect or even copyright the patter used to describe and deceive; but one may not protect the idea behind the trick itself. Continue reading Magic and Law: Can You Copyright a Trick?
We reported on Gay Blackstone’s exciting new project to bring Magic to television this winter in our multi-award winning, November 13, 2008 edition of Inside Magic.
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