"Frontline: Country Boys" (9 p.m., PBS): David Sutherland, the filmmaker behind the acclaimed 1998

"Frontline: Country Boys" (9 p.m., PBS): David Sutherland, the filmmaker behind the acclaimed 1998 documentary, "The Farmer's Wife," returns to public television with another intimate and fully absorbing real-life story. Presented over three consecutive nights, "Country Boys" focuses on the trials and triumphs of Chris Johnson and Cody Perkins, two teens coming of age in the Appalachian hills of eastern Kentucky. Sutherland, who specializes in detailed portraits, chronicles their struggle to overcome poverty and family dysfunction in a quest for a brighter future. Along the way, he also sheds some light on an isolated corner of rural America. While the boys are in many ways different, they both have some major father issues. Cody's dad killed his stepmother and then himself. Chris has an unemployed father whose alcoholism is a constant burden on the family. This is reality TV stripped of frivolous contrivances and rooted in harsh and deeply felt human truths.
"Emily's Reasons Why Not" (9 p.m., ABC): Heather Graham makes a promising television series debut in the quirky sitcom, "Emily's Reasons Why Not." Graham plays a publishing exec who is fumbling her way through the dating game. In tonight's opener, she begins seeing a hunky co-worker, but questions the relationship when his level of passion does not match hers.
"The Bachelor" (10 p.m., ABC): In recent installments, "The Bachelor" has shown some signs of fatigue, Hoping to liven things up, producers of the reality dating series are taking it on the road to Paris, where a hunky doctor will have a fresh group of lovely ladies vying for his attention. Ooh-la-la!