Billy Kidd's episode of The Magicians' Podcast and The Next Great Magician

From The Magician's Podcast:

Canadian born Billy Kidd started life as a child actor and didn't find magic until her twenties. She now lives in Bath and has done it all including street performing, close-up, stage and a ton of television, later this year you will see her on ITV1 attempting to become 'The Next Great Magician' too. In this interview Billy gives us an incredible insight in to what it's like to be a female in our male dominated industry

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From Billy Kidd's Twitter feed:

Official like butter...#itv new show #NextGreatMagician starts Sunday's November 6 at 7pm.
I'll be on episode 4. #magic #magicians #itv1 pic.twitter.com/eVaSirhiXS

— Billy Kidd (@Billykiddshow) November 1, 2016

From the ITV Press Centre:

Derren Brown’s Vaudeville Productions and Crook Productions have been commissioned by ITV to co-produce a brand new magic competition show, The Next Great Magician (6 x 60’). Crook Productions is part of Andrew O’Connor and ITV Studios’ Cat’s On The Roof Media, and The Next Great Magician is Crook Productions’ first big entertainment commission since the group’s inception earlier this year.

The series will feature the world’s best magicians performing their greatest tricks, many of them for the first time ever on television, as they compete to be crowned The Next Great Magician.

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David Lion on Global News Morning

From Global News:

Now, at 30-years-old, Lion has propelled himself onto the world stage with his brand of magic that he calls Lionism, a blend of arts of astonishment, which includes illusion, mentalism and hypnosis.

“When I was getting into magic, I didn’t want to just be labelled as a magician, because I was also interested in mentalism, which is mind reading and prediction, but I was also interested in hypnosis,” Lion said.

“When I learned all of them, I wanted to combine them into something that didn’t exist already.”

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Top 5 posts in October 2016

Out of the 35+ posts at Canada's Magic this month, here are the 5 most viewed posts in the past 30 days:

5. Ty Reveen in the Calgary Herald - Making news, where ever he goes.

4.  Edmonton: Outerbridge lecture - I'm looking forward to seeing them lecture in Toronto later this week.

3.  University of Toronto magic club 2016 - 2017 - Making university more magical.

2.  Vote for Murray SawChuck to co-host "Live with Kelly and You" - Murray is always up to something interesting!

and the most viewed post this month  ...

1.  2016 Shriners' "Holiday Magic Show" and Firefighters' Fundraising - Great people raising money for a great cause!