Penn & Teller: Fool Us is a magic competition television series in which magicians perform tricks in front of the American magician-comedian duo Penn and Teller. Its first two seasons were hosted by Jonathan Ross, the third through ninth seasons hosted by Alyson Hannigan and the tenth and eleventh seasons by Brooke Burke. The pilot of Fool Us was first commissioned by John Kaye Cooper, the controller of entertainment for ITV, in February 2011.