In the first episode of a new three-part series, Justin Lee Collins crashes a magic convention in Canton, Ohio. He has just four weeks to transform himself into a master illusionist good enough to compete against the professionals in the convention’s “Battle of the Magicians” competition. Can Justin pull off Houdini’s classic trick ‘Metamorphosis’ in front of an audience of professional magicians, or will he be left wishing he had just done a vanishing act instead?

Thursday 17 January 2008, Channel 4, 10PM