Uri Geller, the world's most celebrated mentalist, is seeking a protégé in this extraordinary live show. In the studio-based competition ten contestants are challenged to demonstrate their phenomenal and inexplicable abilities on celebrity guests and the studio audience.

From mind control effects such as making the celebrities imagine different flavors in their mouths on command and breath-taking moments such as one contestant actually stopping his heartbeat.

In Germany, the eight episodes of “The next Uri Geller” reached a fantastic average score of 17.3 0n the 14-49 demographic and doubled ProSieben’s share (channel average in 2007: 11.7%). With up to 4.78 million viewers watching the first season, “The next Uri Geller” is the highest-rated show premiere for ProSieben for 1 ½ years. Crushing competition, “The next Uri Geller” drew an average share of 30.6% within the young adults age group (14-29), making ProSieben seven times market leader in the young adults group on Tuesday.

The show outperformed the channel’s Tuesday night prime time slot by 73 0n the 14-49 demographic. Running against “CSI: Miami” & “House”, the Tuesday prime time slot is especially tough.

And the mystifying and mind-bending performances will continue: ProSieben already ordered a second season.

Far above half a million viewers called in at the season finale, voting for their favourite performers.

There is amazing website traffic, as the forum is overflowing with new threads and messages. Over 100.000 viewers send in videos with inexplicable phenomena that occurred at their homes while watching the show. “The next Uri Geller” is also a podcast favourite and a top hit on the VOD-platforms.

Apart from Germany, “The Successor” has already been picked up by further countries. NBC was the first to air on US television. The show has also been picked up by CTV (Canada) and Channel Nine (Australia). On Dutch channel SBS 6, “De Nieuwe Uri Geller” draws an average share of 18.8%, being up 38% above channel average. Hungary’s TV2 launches the show this spring.

The next Uri Geller
Talent Show, 8 x 115’
Format based upon “The Successor”
Produced by Constantin Entertainment for ProSieben in association with SevenOne International
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