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What’s On TV Monday

8 P.M. (FX) HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (2010) In this feature from DreamWorks Animation, a teenage Viking named Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) befriends Toothless, an injured dragon (above with Hiccup on his back), on a windswept island; pleases his demanding father (Gerard Butler); and saves the world. The airborne sequences are particularly compelling, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. “When Hiccup first climbs on Toothless’s back and urges the dragon to take wing, the hearts of the audience soar with a primitive and durable delight,” he said. “The techniques that enabled this feeling may be dauntingly complicated, but the feeling could not be simpler.” At the beginning and the end, “ ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ is noisy and action-packed in the usual way,” Mr. Scott added, with “eye-straining, ear-popping large-scale effects.” But they are worth sitting through, he said, “for the tenderness, beauty and exhilaration that are the movie’s great strengths.”

7 A.M. (CUNY) ONE TO ONE The book editor Judith Jones, who rescued Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl” from the slush pile, discusses her cookbook, “Love Me, Feed Me: Sharing With Your Dog the Everyday Good Food You Cook and Enjoy.” In “Bob Herbert’s Op-Ed.TV,” at 9:30, Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, class counsel in Floyd et al. v. City of New York, the class-action case that resulted in the declaration of New York’s stop-and-frisk policy as unconstitutional, discusses the criminal justice system and its relationship with people from minorities.

10:35 A.M. (Starz Cinema) ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012) Jessica Chastain, left, in an Oscar-nominated role, is Maya, a C.I.A. officer obsessed with finding Osama bin Laden, in Kathryn Bigelow’s intelligence procedural. Tushaar Mehra is Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the lead that Maya and her colleagues, including Dan (Jason Clarke) and Jessica (Jennifer Ehle), chase for years, using controversial interrogation techniques. “The abuse scenes are crucial to ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ because they serve as a claim — one made cinematically rather than with speeches — that these interrogation methods are unreliable when it comes to producing actionable information,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times. To omit them “would have been a reprehensible act of moral cowardice.”

8 P.M. (Disney XD) KIRBY BUCKETS Kirby (Jacob Bertrand), a 13-year-old cartoonist, and his pals, Fish (Mekai Curtis) and Eli (Cade Sutton), maneuver through their hometown — while trying to outrun Kirby’s sister, Dawn (Olivia Stuck), and her BFF, Belinda (Tiffany Espensen) — with the help of some animated friends in this series directed by Hal Sparks.

8 P.M. (Food Network) HUNGRY GAMES The chef Richard Blais uses hidden-camera experiments and on-the-street taste tests to reveal the psychology and science behind our food choices. In this series premiere, he hosts a pizza party using language to stimulate cravings.

8 P.M. (CBS) THE BIG BANG THEORY Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Raj (Kunal Nayyar) try to determine whether they would survive a dark-matter research expedition in a salt mine by recreating the conditions in a steam tunnel. Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) argue about money. In “The Millers,” at 8:30, Carol (Margo Martindale) begins to look for an apartment of her own, prompting Nathan (Will Arnett) and Debbie (Jayma Mays) to scramble to find their mother a home as far from either of them as possible.

9 P.M. (CW) JANE THE VIRGIN Jane (Gina Rodriguez) tries to keep her accidental pregnancy from consuming her life amid pressure to sue the doctor; frequent encounters with the baby’s biological father, Rafael (Justin Baldoni); and the forging of an unexpected alliance between her fiancé, Michael (Brett Dier), and Rafael’s wife, Petra (Yael Grobglas). And Rogelio (Jaime Camil), Jane’s telenovela-star father, would like to meet his daughter sooner than her mother, Xiomara (Andrea Navedo), would prefer.

What’s Streaming Now

SHRIEK OR CHIC: MARTHA’S HAUTE HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE Three aspiring fashion designers compete to create a Halloween costume for Martha Stewart in this six-episode series. (hulu.com)

PEOPLE NOW Jonathan and Drew Scott of HGTV’s “Property Brothers” play a sibling version of “The Newlywed Game” and debate who would make the better television bachelor on Monday’s installment of this daily online series from People magazine. (people.com/peoplenow) KATHRYN SHATTUCK

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