"Don't Trust Andrew Mayne" on A&E Some skills aren't particularly television friendly, and magic, especially the small-scale kind like the card trick, is one of them. If you're not witnessing it live at fairly close range, you have to take it on faith that something magical happened, and that no camera manipulation was involved. The illusionist Andrew Mayne at least partly overcomes this limitation in his new A&E series, "Don't Trust Andrew Mayne," using sass and plain old likability to do it. The premiere, being shown on Monday night, has a lot of appetizers and one main course, and it's all amusing and surprisingly credible. Mr. Mayne spends much of the show punking unsuspecting bystanders with sweet, small tricks. At an indoor-outdoor restaurant he appears to reach through solid glass from his indoor seat to grab things from under the noses of diners at an adjacent outdoor table. He borrows wallets from people, and somehow the driver's license ends up inside a sealed emergency box, with the "In case of fire, break glass" sign taunting them. Mr. Mayne's tricks are well chosen, because they have a physical dimension that the TV viewer can see. The diners in that restaurant tap the glass his hand just came through; nope, no hole there. That helps you buy into the big illusion of the episode, in which he makes a man's motorcycle disappear. Sure, it could be a sleight-of-camera, but by this point he's earned your trust.