A crude little comedy, “Secret Girlfriend” (9:30 p.m., Comedy Central) invites the viewer to become a character. The entire show is shot from the viewer’s perspective, with characters occasionally talking directly to the camera, as if beseeching a response from “you.” Only “you” have to be a young, randy male with neither ambition nor inhibitions who likes to hang around with scruffy slobs. Did Comedy Central do audience research?

“Secret” kicks off with a kiss-off from Mandy (Alexis Krause), a handful in every sense of the word. After she storms out of (your) life, Phil (Derek Miller) and Sam (Michael Blaiklock) enter the picture, congratulating you on your newfound freedom and getting you into hijinks with astoundingly willing and attractive young women. You also shoot dumb Internet videos and discover that the local strip club has a remarkably cheap and tasty all-you-can-eat buffet.

Anyone who has ever seen the 1947 Humphrey Bogart thriller “Dark Passage” can tell you that the first-person narrative can be rather jarring, even disturbing. But “Secret” hearkens to less prestigious forms of entertainment, including first-person video games and various facets of pornography.

Not without a few laughs, “Secret Girlfriend” remains a crude little comedy airing right after the 13th-season premiere of “South Park” (9 p.m., Comedy Central).

• “Craft in America” (7 p.m., PBS, check local listings) offers a series of great vignettes about individual artisans and the people, family and regions that influence and inspire them.

How does a handsome young man become the future of so-called “Jugtown” North Carolina pottery? A 98-year-old ironworker named Mr. Simmons passes his secrets and traditions to new generation in Charleston, S.C., and Paul Stankard follows a South Jersey tradition of glass art in a fashion that he likens to meditation and prayer.

The artisans on “Craft” tend to speak in a language as straightforward as their work and avoid the kind of academic jargon heard with unwelcome frequency on “Art in the 21st Century” (9 p.m., PBS, check local listings), a survey of the contemporary scene.

• In the eight-part series “Man Shops World” (9 p.m., Sundance), Keith Johnson, a buyer for a fancy retailer, gets to scour the antique shops and flea markets of the globe. And pay for it with other people’s money! First stop France, to look for 19th-century furniture.

Tonight’s other highlights

• Will poses a challenge on “Glee” (8 p.m., Fox).

• Model airplanes take flight on “Modern Family” (8 p.m., ABC).

• “Mythbusters” (8 p.m., Discovery) puts duct tape to the test on its seventh-season premiere.

• “Dive to the Bottom of the World” (8 p.m., Science) offers high-definition imagery of the ocean floor.

• “Clean House” (9 p.m., Style) enters its eighth season of “foolishness.”

Cult choice

Brooklyn youth endure the divorce of their bickering literary parents (Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney) in the sensitive 2005 drama “The Squid and the Whale” (7:35 p.m., Sundance).