It’s a nice idea, to take the piss from all those psychics who permeate the media these days.

Inter-cutting live interaction with video inserts, the gifted Cameron Blair tells us how his career began, reveals extremely ordinary things about various audience members – or rather the grandparent they have, inevitably, ‘lost’ – and gives us sneak previews of his up-coming TV shows.

We go with him into the haunted port-a-loo of Kohimarama – oogie boogie – and see him pit his wits against an Aussie sheila in pursuit of cracking the great vegecide mystery. A less-than-convincing Kiwi version of Neil from The Young Ones mars the latter, somewhat.

Before our very eyes Cameron does a card reading for one audience member then tests two others to see which is more likely to have the gift.

His style is smooth, he has the lingo, it’s a quietly subtle show. What it needs it a wider ranging dynamic, something more climactic. We smile, chuckle, laugh out loud a few times … I guess I’d like to feel more tempted to feel the bullshit getting to me.

Comic magicians always do something in the end that confounds the senses: a "how the hell did he do that?" trick. The Blair psychic project needs to do the same.

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