Vaudeville Productions is producing a new six-part social-experiment series with Derren Brown for Channel 4.
Derren Brown: Incognito brings together ten strangers from different backgrounds to live in a “mysterious institution” for a week as it explores how identity shapes behavior and prejudices.
“With my previous shows I’ve normally had a clear idea of how things will conclude, this was very different,” Brown said.
“It’s a show about how we form opinions, live by our labels, judge others by them. And what happens when all that’s removed. It was a beautiful and extraordinary thing to make.”
Tom Beck, Channel 4’s head of live events, added, “Any Derren Brown show is an event, but Incognito is unlike anything he has done before. A social experiment disguised as a reality show, it’s ambitious, mischievous, challenging and, with its central question about how our personal prejudices affect the way we judge others, it couldn’t be more timely. The end results are fascinating, moving and wildly entertaining and I can’t wait for people to see it.”
