HYPNOTIZE ME
CW, 9:00 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: This new CW summer series is a new U.S. variant on the British show You’re Back in the Room, which turns stage hypnosis into a non-interactive TV experience. (In other words, you just watch, and, unlike seeing a similar act in Las Vegas or elsewhere, have no danger of being called up from the audience as a volunteer.) With another British show, Love Island, already invading America successfully this summer, on CBS, it would be foolish to dismiss this latest transcontinental import and revamp from CBS’s owned-and-operated CW network. Each week, four volunteers are allegedly hypnotized and put through their paces. Taye Diggs hosts; Keith Barry handles the hypnosis duties. Does it work as a TV series? I’m not sure yet – but even watching the promo made me feel verrry verrry sleeeeeeeeepy…