Monday’s TV Highlights and Talk: ‘Seduced and Abandoned’ on HBO

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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

The Story of Film: An Odyssey A new episode recalls the shock to the studio system delivered by a new breed of maverick American filmmakers in the 1960s and ‘70s. 7 p.m. TCM

How I Met Your Mother Sherri Shepherd and “Flight of the Conchords’?” Rhys Darby guest star. 8 p.m. CBS

Scare Tactics The hidden-camera prank show hosted by Tracy Morgan returns with new episodes. 8, 8:30, 9, 9:30, 10 and 10:30 p.m. Syfy

Mom Justin Long guest stars as Christy’s (Anna Farris) new love interest. 9:30 p.m. CBS

Independent Lens Efforts to lower the dropout rate among Latino students are charted in the two-part episode “The Graduates.” 10 p.m. KOCE

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives New Mexico is the next stop for Guy Fieri’s travelogue. 10 p.m. Food

Ancient Aliens This installment investigates texts that suggest the biblical figure known as Satan was actually an extraterrestrial. 10 p.m. History

Dream School Oliver Stone lends his historical perspectives to the students. 10 p.m. Sundance

The Pete Holmes Show The comic and sketch artist gets his own late-night vehicle. Midnight TBS

SPECIALS

First Lady Bess Truman President Harry Truman’s better half is profiled. 6 p.m. CSPN

Guy’s Family Cruise Mr. Fieri and his kinfolk take to the seas for a Caribbean adventure. 9 p.m. Food

Tori Spelling The former “Beverly Hills, 90210” costar talks about her life and career. 10 p.m. E!

SPORTS

Baseball The Boston Red Sox battle the St. Louis Cardinals in Game Five of the 2013 World Series. 4:30 p.m. Fox

MOVIES

Seduced and Abandoned Director James Toback’s new documentary tracks his and Alec Baldwin’s star-studded misadventures at the Cannes Film Festival. 9 p.m. HBO

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today Skier Lindsey Vonn; Tim Conway; Celine Dion. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA

Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Rachael Ray Chef Bobby Flay. (N) 8 a.m. KCAL

Live With Kelly and Michael Robert De Niro. (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The View Guest co-host Chris Harrison; Neil Patrick Harris; Véronic. (N) 10 a.m. KABC

The Wendy Williams Show (N) 11 a.m. KTTV

The Talk Wynonna Judd; Bobby Brown; George Lopez. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

The Queen Latifah Show Chris Colfer (“Glee”); Ellie Goulding performs. (N) 2 p.m. KCBS, 7 p.m. KCAL

The Dr. Oz Show Montel Williams; food allergies. (N) 2 p.m. KABC

Dr. Phil (N) 3 p.m. KCBS

Steve Harvey Sex expert Dr. Laura Berman; Star Jones. (N) 3 p.m. KNBC

Katie Keeping life clutter-free; Scholarship America; how to go to college free of charge. (N) 3 p.m. KABC

The Ellen DeGeneres Show Michael Ealy; Romany Malco; Keith Urban performs. (N) 4 p.m. KNBC

The Doctors (N) 5 p.m. KCAL

The Arsenio Hall Show Piers Morgan; Jillian Rose Reed; Hiatus Kaiyote performs. (N) 11 p.m. KTLA

Tavis Smiley Dr. Debora L. Spar; author T.C. Boyle. (N) 11 p.m. KOCE

Charlie Rose (N) 11 p.m. KVCR, 11:30 p.m. KOCE

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (N) 11 p.m. Comedy Central

Chelsea Lately Julian Lennon. (N) 11 p.m. E!

Conan Steven Wright. (N) 11 p.m. TBS

The Colbert Report (N) 11:31 p.m. Comedy Central

The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Adam Levine; Ali Wentworth; Elvis Costello performs. (N) 11:34 p.m. KNBC

Late Show With David Letterman Charles Barkley; skier Lindsey Vonn; King Krule performs. (N) 11:35 p.m. KCBS

Jimmy Kimmel Live Dax Shepard; Kelly Rowland; Smallpools performs. (N) 11:35 p.m. KABC

Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Hugh Laurie; Celine Dion performs. (N) 12:36 a.m. KNBC

The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson Katey Sagal; director Richard Curtis. (N) 12:37 a.m. KCBS

Last Call With Carson Daly Tony Lucca; Blue Hawaii. (N) 1:36 a.m. KNBC