Bachelor party

"The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All" reunites booted contestants, ensuring the network an extra night of decent ratings and a choir of hisses toward villain Chad Johnson, this season's most engaging character. Should JoJo marry this dude? Definitely not. But if she wants me to stick around for the final rose ceremony, she should use this special to invite the bad boy back into the flock.

7 p.m. Tue., KSTP, Ch. 5

The real, real world

"Born This Way" harks back to the early days of "The Real World," when reality TV was actually more interested in young people's well-being and waved off social experiments that mixed alcohol with hot tubs. In the second-season premiere, the stars, who all have Down syndrome, flirt and fight before a dance. The results may not light up social media, but this is well-intentioned, emotionally moving television that will make you feel a little more guilty the next time you find yourself engrossed in a "Real Housewives" marathon.

9 p.m. Tue., A&E

Let 'er rip

Sure, every British crime drama looks like it was filmed on the same grimy streets, but most of them are bloody good fun. The new season of "Ripper Street" finds our hero Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) returning to White­chapel in 1897 to learn that an old friend is to be hanged for murder. Meanwhile, Inspector Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn) has been promoted. Maybe he can finally do something about the haphazard garbage pickup.

9 p.m. Thu., BBC America

Neal Justin