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Anybody watched this?
http://www.mininova.org/tor/325692

'Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment

Every day millions of people consult their horoscopes. Is it wise to follow the advice of astrologers? The world of science has not been brave enough to answer this question. Until now.

Step forward Dave Gorman (Pisces).

For 40 days and 40 nights Dave Gorman has given up normal life. Instead he has scoured the horoscopes of 20 leading astrologers.

His task – to follow their advice. To ignore speculation, prediction and guesswork, but at all times to follow instruction and pursue luck.

Over six, thirty-minute episodes on BBC TWO, Dave will present the evidence to an astrologically balanced studio audience.

Dave Gorman lives by the stars, receiving help and guidance from three world-renowned, independent experts in the fields of Love, Health and Wealth – Denise Robertson (TV agony aunt and Gemini), Hilary Jones (TV doctor and Gemini) and Alvin Hall (TV financial advisor and Cancer) – the audience will then vote on whether Dave’s or the control’s life is turning out better.

Whatever the result, in Dave’s world truth is stranger than fiction.

Despite the huge success of Dave's other works in book, DVD and stage form, for some reason this 2002 series has never been seen again since it's original broadcast (six weeks beginning from 8th September 2002). It barely even gets a passing mention on Dave's own website! Granted, it isn't quite as brilliant as Are You Dave Gorman? or The Googlewhack Adventure, but it still ranks as one of the funniest and most original comedy series the BBC have shown in the last ten years. I suspect it may have something to do with the fact that Dave principally makes his living from the books and live tours, and the TV series are in the hands of the BBC (the six-part Dave Gorman Collection has never seen a DVD release either... watch this space).

Bonus extra
A transcript of the online chat with Dave that the BBC hosted after the first episode was aired.

Technical Gubbins
Video Codec: H.264/AVC
Video Resolution: 448x288
Video Bitrate: ~490kbps
Audio Codec: mp3
Audio Bitrate: 64kbps

Screenies http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/2666/imprtantastrologyexperiment6ll.jpg

Notes
Dave Gorman
David Gorman (born March 2, 1971) is a documentary comedian and humorist. He performs comedy shows on stage in which he tells stories of extreme adventures and presents the evidence to the audience in order to prove to them that, unlike in most other stage presentations, they are true stories. He is a former stand-up comedian.

Gorman was born in Stafford, England. He intitially studied mathematics, and before his solo successes, was in demand as a writer, having co-written three series of The Mrs Merton Show as well as writing for many other TV series, including The Fast Show, in the UK.

In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.

In 2006, he became a regular contributor on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment
His second television series, broadcast on BBC Two, was entitled Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment, and was quite a novel and unexpected idea for a comedy show, being based upon the idea of a controlled scientific experiment, although naturally not a serious one.

The premise was that it would test whether or not astrology really worked. Over the course of forty days, he would try to follow any instructions given to people with his star sign in a selection of horoscopes, while his "control experiment" (his twin brother, Nick) ignored them. Each would record the events of each day, and how they fared in each of three areas of life: love, health, and wealth. On each episode of the show, Dave would show footage of the amusing situations he got into by trying to follow his horoscope, and then asked a panel of "experts" in the studio to assess how he had fared in the three areas. Following an audience vote, Dave would display on a "happiness graph" the difference between how he and his twin brother had fared that week, and whether it showed that astrology had produced a positive effect, a negative effect, or no significant effect at all.

The results of the 'experiment' were dramatic indeed. The various charts showed that his overall happiness, love and wealth steadily began to recede over time (especially wealth as he was forced to travel excessively). Throughout the experiment he had numerous adventures, including travelling to New York to meet a long lost friend and then leaving a few hours later because he was ordered to spend as much time at home as possible, standing in Trafalgar Square on one leg with his foot in a bucket of water, an orange in each hand and singing loudly (literally taken from one very odd horoscope) and the ethical trauma of reading a pornographic magazine at Sunday Lunch in front of his mother.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
On April 24th, 2006, Gorman made his first appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart where he was credited as the show's Senior New Correspondent. On April 27th, he debuted his first appearance as the host of the show's satirical statistical analysis piece called "Poll Smoking with Dave Gorman", which is now a regular feature on The Daily Show. Gorman's addition to the cast makes him the first Daily Show correspondent to have been born in England, and the third Daily Show correspondent to have been born outside of the United States.'

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