New show premieres on Spike TV, features never before seen challenges

Oct 16, 2013 13:09 GMT  ·  By

Criss Angel is doing his most difficult stunts in front of the camera again, this time for a new series on Spike TV. “BeLIEve,” named after his hit Las Vegas show, premiered last night and, as Angel tells The Huffington Post, it will be his biggest thing yet.

Above is the official trailer for the new series but the two videos embedded below are best to offer you an idea of what you’re to expect.

As you can see, Angel will attempt a “buried alive”-type of stunt, in which he will be put in a glass coffin and then have cement poured over. He has exactly 15 minutes to free himself from the shackles to get out before he runs out of air.

One of his people says in the preview that he didn’t even rehearse the stunt before, which sounds pretty hard to believe, but OK. We’ll see.

The second video is of a stunt in which Angel rips two people in two and then puts them together again, but switching their upper bodies. It looks incredibly freaky and awesome at the same time.