"American Soldier" (9:30 p.m., CMT). The six-episode series is being heralded by its producers as a

"American Soldier" (9:30 p.m., CMT). The six-episode series is being heralded by its producers as a "real-life Band of Brothers." It peeks into the lives of eight members of the Army National Guard from Georgia who were deployed to Iraq early this year. A camera crew spent two months chronicling their exploits.
"The Reading Room" (9 p.m., Hallmark Channel): James Earl Jones stars in this new movie as a wealthy man who opens a reading room to serve residents of his old inner-city neighborhood but is met with hostility and violence. The cast includes Georg Stanford Brown (who also directed), Joanna Cassidy, and Tim Reid.