The new Uri Geller was a Dutch television program in which mentalists compete with each other. The first episode was on January 26, 2008. The program was presented for the first season by Tooske Ragas and Henkjan Smits. The first episode was presented by Marlayne Sahupala and Henkjan Smits because Ragas had the flu. The second season was presented by Tooske Ragas and Patty Brard. The third season was presented by Patty Brard and Beau van Erven Dorens. The television program is based on NBC's American program Phenomenon and the Israeli program The Successor. During the first season, the program was broadcast live from studio 32 in the German city of Cologne, from where the German version Der neue Uri Geller was also broadcast. In the second and third season, the program came directly from Studio 24 in Hilversum. The program was controversial prior to the first broadcast because there are worldwide doubts about the gifts of Uri Geller. Broadcast from 2010-2-19.