Hello
So following a quick interview in the Guardian (he has a new netflix coming out) I ended up down a Derren Brown wormhole. I like him a lot and can remember how pissed off I was about the lottery one (he 'guessed' the lottery numbers then 'revealed' the next episode it was done via deep maths/wisdom of crowds bumph).
Like everyone else, I was like That it?
It turns out the twist would have been a prerecord of children on a bus pulling out the correct numbers the previous Christmas (xmas lights weren't up yet at time of broadcast)
I am easily pleased so that would have made me go oooohhhhhhh
how did he do that? (given you cannot film the kids with all the variations even if you started the year before, there are what? 14 million combinations?)
So it would have been a satisfying twist for me 
Like I said, easily pleased.
Apparently only the studio audience saw that reveal because Camelot would not allow people to think the lottery could actually be fixed. D'Oh! I know that people me are gullible but ruining a show by thinking people would just believe it is ridiculous.
So, two questions (not the prediction bit, that was done by very clever use of split screen)
- Why did Camelot really feel the need to spoil the fun given that all what would have happened would have peen plebs like me discussing how the prerecord was made?
- How was the prerecord made?!
Did they have kids pull out balls then superimpose the numbers on after (I have not seen the footage so don't know if the kids read them out or not) or did they have a bus go round post lottery and blue screen xmas decorations at the windows (is that doable, need a techie to explain it, like the split screen was)
- Where is that footage now and why have none of the kids ever come foreward to talk of it? (NDA or it's very very old news )