Peter Powers is a British television personality and hypnotist. According to his website, he claims to hold the world record of being the fastest hypnotist, as well as inducing the longest hypnotic sleep documented. He is well-known in Australia for his appearances on the NRL Footy Show.
Peter Powers also has made several TV shows; The Power of One, which is filmed in Australia, and Street Hypnosis which was filmed in the UK.
He made five one-hour TV Specials for UK's Channel 5, entitled The Naughty, Naughty Hypnoshow and recorded two one-hour TV specials for Network 9 in Australia in which well-known celebrities were hypnotised. Two new shows; Celebrity Superpowers NZ were fimed in New Zealand with well-known TV personalities.
In 2008, he appeared in a one-hour special ("Housemates Hypnotized") on Big Brother Australia 2008, where he hypnotized many of the willing housemates.
His TV show in the Netherlands, Peter Powers' Payback, a 10 part series. was broadcast in early 2009.
On 2 June 2012 he appeared on an episode of "Australia's Funniest Home Videos" (themed "Everything's Cool"), where he hypnotised three audience members, first convincing them their dancing was "cool", then that their pants were down around their ankles.
In October 2015, the six-part series Mesmerised, fronted by Powers, began airing on Channel Seven in Australia. It was promptly pulled from air after one episode.