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9:30 P.M. (Encore) BAD TEACHER (2011) Cameron Diaz (above right, with Kaitlyn Dever) taps into her inner thug to play a gorgeous teacher, seemingly without a conscience, who wreaks havoc on a school when she sets her sights on the only single man around, a new colleague (Justin Timberlake) who may be stultifyingly boring in his bow tie but who has lots of family money. Jason Segel plays the more suitable love interest she naturally ignores. Lucy Punch is her squeaky-clean rival for affection. “It’s a beautiful thing,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times of Ms. Diaz’s slide into debauchery in this comedy from Jake Kasdan. “A performer with a gift for light comedy and a comically ductile face that can work in fascinating counterpart to her rocking hot body (as her character would say), Ms. Diaz has found her down-and-dirty element in the kind of broad comedy that threatens to get ugly and more or less succeeds on that threat.”


6:30 A.M. (IFC) PAN’S LABYRINTH (2006) The Mexican-born Guillermo del Toro directed this political fable cum fairy tale, set in a dark forest in 1944 Spain, about a girl whose fantasies are trampled by her stepfather’s fascist politics. The film, in Spanish with English subtitles, received Academy Awards for cinematography, art direction and makeup. Ivana Baquero plays the film’s heroine, Ofelia, who longs to believe in fairies, princesses and magic lands; Doug Jones plays the woodland creature (a couple of them, actually) who charges her with three tasks. “Fairy tales (and scary movies) are designed to console as well as terrify,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. “What distinguishes ‘Pan’s Labyrinth,’ what makes it art, is that it balances its own magical thinking with the knowledge that not everyone lives happily ever after.”


8:30 A.M. (HBO) CINEMA VERITE (2011) In 1973 members of the Loud family became a sensation when they welcomed a camera crew into their home in Santa Barbara, Calif., opening their lives to scrutiny and helping to create a genre: reality television. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini recreate the drama — the philandering, the marital discord, the invasion of privacy and questionable ethics — with a cast that includes Diane Lane as Pat Loud; Tim Robbins as her husband, Bill; and Thomas Dekker as Lance Loud, their gay son. James Gandolfini plays Craig Gilbert, the producer who, inspired by the anthropologist Margaret Mead, devised the series “An American Family,” which featured the Louds and was shown on PBS. Writing in The Times, Alessandra Stanley called the film “a clever, beautifully made but somehow underwhelming re-enactment of the breakup of the Loud marriage, on camera and off.”


12:45 P.M. (Sundance) THE SEA INSIDE (2004) Javier Bardem, left, stars as Ramón Sampedro, a former ship’s mechanic fighting for the right to die after living as a quadriplegic for nearly 30 years, in this drama directed by Alejandro Amenábar, which won an Oscar for best foreign-language film. “Mr. Bardem, acting above the neck (except in brief flashbacks and fantasies), creates a complicated male character, volatile and witty, with a poet’s soul,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times. But, he added, citing another of Mr. Amenábar’s films, “In the end, suspenseful narrative devices that worked so effectively in a gothic fantasy like ‘The Others’ feel contrived when applied to what’s supposed to be a true story of life, death and the living hell from which Ramón finally escapes.”


8 P.M. (CBS) HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) draws up a prenup, inciting Quinn (Becki Newton) to do the same. In “Partners,” at 8:30, Louis (Michael Urie) discovers that Joe (David Krumholtz) and Ali (Sophia Bush) haven’t been romantic in a while. In “2 Broke Girls,” at 9, Max (Kat Dennings) and Caroline (Beth Behrs) wait for a call from Martha Stewart, who enjoyed one of their cupcakes in last season’s finale. And in “Mike & Molly,” at 9:30, Vince (Louis Mustillo) hurts his back, requiring Mike (Billy Gardell) and Molly (Melissa McCarthy) to care for him. Jason Alexander directed the episode.


8 P.M. (CW) IHEARTRADIO MUSIC FESTIVAL Taped on Sept. 21 and 22 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, this concert features performances by Green Day, No Doubt, Rihanna, Taylor Swift and the South Korean rapper Psy.


9 P.M. (Travel) ANTHONY BOURDAIN: NO RESERVATIONS Mr. Bourdain slides behind the wheel of a Citroën DS for a trip through the Burgundy region of France alongside the chef Ludo Lefebvre, who was born in the area. KATHRYN SHATTUCK