Tricks are treat

JUST like that, magic is back...Shin Lim who won America’s Got Talent is the greatest close-up magician of his generation.

On Magic For Humans, Justin Willman conjures up a blinding blend of street sorcery and comedy.

Penn & Teller’s Fool Me attracts the world’s greatest tricksters, including Britain’s John Archer whose envelopes routine was more baffling than Labour’s position on Brexit.

TV bosses say variety is old-hat. (They said the same about talent shows.)

But a primetime series where these amazing acts performed with differently -skilled turns would make our worries (temporarily) disappear...