Dynamo dumps Oscar Pistorius from the episode of his upcoming new season of Dynamo: Magician Impossible on Discovery Channel.

Dynamo's latest disappearing act involves making Oscar Pistorius disappear.

The insert which the brilliant magician filmed at the end of last year in South Africa with Oscar Pistorius before the Olympic and paralympic athlete shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp is getting deleted from the new season of Discovery Channel's Dynamo: Magician Impossible.

Last month Discovery told TV with Thinus that the Oscar Pistorius insert which was filmed in November 2012 is under review and that Discovery is deciding whether it will remain in an episode of the new season or not.

Now Discovery tells TV with Thinus that the Oscar Pistorius insert is getting deleted and will be cut from the upcoming third season of Dynamo Magician Impossible. The third season of Dynamo: Magician Impossible will start on Discovery Channel (DStv 121) on 27 October.

"After careful consideration, we have decided not to include the scene filmed with Oscar Pistorius last year in Dynamo: Magician Impossible when the series airs in South Africa later this year," says Lee Hobbs, the channel director for emerging business for Discovery Networks for the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) region.

"The programme will still include the best moments of Dynamo's time in South Africa and we hope our viewers enjoy this magical local episode when it premieres on Discovery Channel."

Dynamo (his real name is Steven Frayne) filmed various scenes around South Africa with South Africans and local celebrities in Johannesburg, Soweto and Cape Town.

Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentines Day, 14 February and the athlete embroiled in a sensational court trial stands accused of premeditated murder.

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has told Oscar Pistorius' lawyers that he will be charged with additional charges when he appears in court again this coming Monday.

The NPA says Oscar Pistorius will be charged with two counts of recklessly discharging a gun in a public place, related to two other incidents.

Discovery to review whether Oscar Pistorius footage filmed in 2012 will remain in an episode of the third series of Dynamo: Magician Impossible.

Discovery tells TV with Thinus it will review whether to leave in or cut the appearance of Oscar Pistorius from a new episode in the new upcoming third season of the magician Dynamo's TV show Dynamo: Magician Impossible which was filmed at the end of last year in South Africa.

The third season of Dynamo: Magician Impossible is set to start within months on The Discovery Channel (DStv 121) and the amazing magician filmed various scenes in and around South Africa such as in Johannesburg and Cape Town for inclusion in the new series.

The interaction between Dynamo (Steven Frayne) and Oscar Pistorius was filmed in November 2012 before Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentines Day, 14 February 2013. 

Oscar Pistorius was arrested and accused of premeditated murder and the paralympic athlete is currently embroiled in a sensational court trial.

"Dynamo filmed a scene with Oscar Pistorius last year while on location in South Africa for the third series. We will review the final program before making a decision about its broadcast later this year," says Lee Hobbs, the channel director for emerging business for Discovery Networks for the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) region.

DYNAMO Q&A: Discovery Channel does a very special press junket with the English magician Dynamo, in a perfect press session.

Magic. Amazing. Perfect.

Not just the English magician Dynamo (Steven Frayne) visiting South Africa but the absolutely perfect press presentation and Q&A session Discovery Networks Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) held today at Nu Metro's Il Grande theatre at Montecasino.

This is how broadcasters, content creators, producers, TV executives and those involved in making and being on television should engage, interact and talk to TV critics and writers and journalists covering television. Spot-on, on message, clear, high-quality, direct communication.

Discovery Networks CEEMEA gets absolute full marks for a pitch perfect press presentation this afternoon with one of the factual entertainment programmer's TV talent visiting the country.

The way in which the excited announcement during the incredible well-done presentation was done (that Dynamo will actually be staying in South Africa a few days to film a special South African episode for the Discovery Channel for 2013) is what PR and marketing people who aspire to be in the TV biz, should see and learn from. Those who want to represent broadcasters, TV talent, programmers and producers can get it right and their message across if they simply follow the golden standard and stay on-form in the correct way.

On a specially erected stage in front of TV critics and journalists, and making full use of the cinema theatre wall to display full backdrop brand imaging, information and viewership statistics (perfectly and beautifully done), Dynamo and Lee Hobbs, the channel director for Discovery Networks CEEMEA's emerging business region had their press junket.

The dynamic and interactive press session was reminiscent of the way in which the American TV biz trot out and talk about their shows.

All TV critics sat with smiles. Print and online journalists asked questions and Lee Hobbs actually made the press feel comfortable to keep asking questions as he deftly steered the presentation through the Q&A session, the big announcement, and more questions afterwards. It was textbook perfect.

Here's some of the press Q & A with Dynamo from this afternoon's session; questions are from all different journalists representing various media:

How did you discovery magic?
My grandpa introduced me to magic. He wasn't a magician per se, but he could do like skills based things. Like remember where you put a coin on your elbow with your hand back and lift up your hand and catch it? Yeah? He could do skills like that, bar tricks around the pool table.

I was actually bullied. Boys would stuff me in a bin and roll me down a hill. And my grandpa found out one day. And to help me stop it, he helped me and taught me how to do stuff. Then when I started doing what he taught me, around school there started a kind of urban myth that I was some kind of demon child. So it started out of being something I started doing to stop being picked on. And my grandpa helped me.

Wat was the first magic you ever saw and what is the most difficult thing you've done?
My grandpa, to this day I'm still not sure how he did it. He took two matchboxes. A green match box, and a red matchbox. And inside the green matchbox was green matches, and inside the red matchbox was red matches.
He told me to switch the matches and put the green in the red box and the red in the green box. Then he just snapped his fingers over them, and when I opened them, the right colours were back in their boxes. That was my first. The feeling I got from that is what inspired me to want to do magic, to perform it and the reaction from people like you watching.

The most death-defying thing is in Los Angeles [South African viewers will see it when the second series of Dynamo: Magician Impossible starts on Discovery Channel from 21 November at 20:30] where I walked down the side of a building. I have a fear of heights. There's a lot of others but I don't want to ruin the surprises for anyone.

How do you describe magic, what is magic for you?
That feeling that you get when you witness something which you can't explain. It takes you back to a childlike state. When you're a baby, everything is amazing. You don't know how anything really works. None of your dreams have been shattered by people telling you that you can't do this; you can't do that. You believe that anything is possible as a child. It's that feeling, that belief in yourself.

Can you talk a bit about your new book, do you tell people how you are able to do what you do?
I think it's out now! It's called Dynamo: Nothing is Impossible. It's the journey I took right from making the second series. It doesn't necessarily reveal how I do what I do. But there's a lot of personal stories along the way. What my life is like. There is secrets in there, but you will have to read between the lines to find them.

Has something you've tried not worked out? Do you get nervous?
I don't really get too nervous. When I meet a group of people I will start out with some of the things I'm comfortable with and see how they're reacting, and depending on that I'll try something more risque. I've never worried about things not working out. In my head, I might know that I have an end goal. But if it's not quite working out, I'll  do something else and improvise. It will still be amazing, it might just not be what I had in mind when I started.

BREAKING. Dazzling Dynamo to bring magic to South Africa; Brit magician to film a special episode here for 3rd series on Discovery Channel.

The dazzling Brit magician Dynamo (real name Steven Frayne) who arrived in South Africa last night will remain in the country for a few days to film a special episode for the third series of his show, Dynamo: Magician Impossible for the Discovery Channel (DStv 121) which will be broadcast on the channel sometime during the second half of 2013.

Meanwhile the second series of Dynamo: Magician Impossible will start next Wednesday, 21 November, in South Africa on The Discovery Channel at 20:30 co-inciding with his new book, Dynamo: Nothing is Impossible - The Real-Life Adventures of a Street Magician. The first series of Dynamo: Magician Impossible reached an audience of 1,8 million viewers on DStv to become the number one most watched TV show on Discovery Channel this year.

Discovery's ever-eloquent Lee Hobbs, the channel director for emerging business for Discovery Networks for the Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) region and Dynamo made the joint announcement on stage to journalists earlier this evening at Montecasino during a special presentation and Q&A session with the star.

The most exciting magician of the 21st century who has been dazzling people on streets across cross the globe will now be filming a special South African episode which will become the first episode of the third series when that starts on The Discovery Channel during the second half of 2013.

"We are incredibly excited to announce that Dynamo will be filming an episode of series 3 of Dynamo: Magician Impossible in Cape Town and Johannesburg," says Lee Hobbs. "The series is one of the most successful shows we've ever aired on Discovery Channel in South Africa and a special episode filmed in its two biggest cities is sure to be a big hit with our DStv viewers."

"We can't tell you anything that he will be doing obviously, that would be ruining the magic, but I'm very excited," said Lee Hobbs.

In making the announcement, Dynamo beautifully played the press (who jubilantly clapped and hooted at his announcement) like a skilled magician deftly shuffling a deck of cards.

"So ... I've been here for a day and a half now. Obviously I came out to talk about season two of Dynamo: Magician Impossible," he started out coyly. "It was decided a while ago that there will be a third series. We're a couple of weeks in - and I've decided to stay to do an episode of series three! I'll visit Johannesburg, Soweto and Cape Town. I'll bring some magic to South Africa!" Dynamo said.

"I want to go into some of the deprived areas; I want to go into some of the rich areas and just show a cross-section of what South Africa is all about to the world. I've got a few ideas of things I want to do, but I think I need to meet some of the people of South Africa first to get a feeling of this place."


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INTERVIEW. For magician Dynamo nothing is impossible, as the street magician arrives in South Africa to dazzle with Discovery Networks.

Right in front of my very eyes, while we sit and talk, the magician Dynamo suddenly decides to take a coin out of his pocket ("A five rand coin, no?") puts it flat in his left hand, holds his right hand high above it, and make the R5 coin levitate through the air, grabbing it with his other hand. 

The world's number one street magician with the piercing blue eyes, arrived in Johannesburg last night to visit South African fans and dazzle them with astounding even-if-you-see-it-you-can't-believe it magic performances. 

This morning I met the ubercool guy with the enigmatic aura who does insane stuff in Dynamo: Magician Impossible on the Discovery Channel (DStv 121). His real name is Steven Frayne, and as Dynamo he made me pick any card (the King of Hearts) without him seeing it. He then proceeded to pick it out correctly - but only after making the deck of cards first move without touching it, to spill open at the exact correct card I chose.

With lots of street cred, his book Nothing is Impossible: The Real-Life Adventures of a Street Magician, unbelievable amazing feats of magic, and a common man's (magic) touch with which he dazzles delighted streetgoers, Dynamo has emerged as the biggest buzz magician in decades on the popular culture scene.

His acclaimed TV show, picked up for a third and fourth series, is already winning awards, and Dynamo jets from continent to continent to wow with his magic taking everything always that one step further than what people have ever seen or experienced before.

Having already travelled the globe, the man who've walked on the Thames is now visiting South Africa just before the start of the second series of Dynamo: Magician Impossible which kicks off on Wednesday 21 November at 20:30 on The Discovery Channel (get ready to see him walk horizontally down the side of a building in Los Angeles!)

Having jetted into Johannesburg last night, Dynamo will also be the special guest at Discovery Networks annual upfront for the factual entertainment programmer's 2013 upfront on Wednesday evening where Discovery will be unveiling its upcoming programming for the year ahead.

For his amazing feat of walking on the water of the river Thames, Dynamo tells me he already had the idea 7 years previously. "It sometimes takes a long time to get it right and make a specific performance possible".

The English magician, born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, discovered his love of magic and wanting to be an illusionist and magician at the age of 12 from his grandpa who he says showed him some tricks "and often did some stuff; you know, the kind of bar tricks that would get you a free drink".

'He's a dynamo!'
I asked him why Dynamo as a name and where this impressive magician, whose elaborate and daunting magic tricks stun crowds the world over, took his name from. "In 2001 I was in New York. This one guy just jumped up and started yelling and screaming: "He's a dynamo! He's a dynamo!' which I thought was a cool word so I took it from there," he says.

And if he's done something once, can he always do it again, or does it take a lot of preparation and practice to repeat it? Does his different magic acts become like riding a bicycle he can seamlessly slip into?

"There's some stuff I would prefer not to do again," he admits. "Some of the dangerous and scary stuff. Some of it's scary and I prepare and you do it for film as a one-time thing. But if I have to I can [again]," he says.

Later he takes the pinkie of his one hand, and right in front of my eyes moves it to stand like an "L" as if his fingers are secretly double jointed - but in a direction that no fingers in their middle, are ever able or supposed to move.

Dynamo was invited to the Inner Magic Circle, a secret magician's society - a very big honour for him. But he laughs when I ask him whether there are any rules or secret do's or must not do's. "I got a silver star, yes," he laughs making it almost sound as if he did something great in school. "I received an invitation to the Inner Magic Circle and I feel very honoured to have been invited. But we can never talk about ... the Inner Circle," he says with a mysterious smile.

And, as befitting a hyman Dynamo, he just loves to work off of the direct energy of people. "When I see people them I can react and respond and read them, so that's why doing something for television is a bit different than for a live performance. You can instantly see how people are responding and reacting. The language doesn't really matter, you can see on their faces their reaction to what I'm doing."

Since he's been all over the world, and now South Africa, Dynamo admits that language can sometimes however be a bit of a barrier. "In Rio I couldn't really understand what people were saying, so there is a bit of cultural difference from country to country and how people react to a performance and experience."

No doubt South Africans will be absolutely enthralled with Dynamo's dazzling, enigmatic acts for those who happen to catch a glimpse of him during his South African visit. For the rest there's the second series of Dynamo: Magician Impossible showing that, just like the title of his book, nothing is impossible.


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