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Kaley Cuoco of "8 Simple Rules" stars as Brooke, a former orphan whose determination has taken her to the top of the fashion industry. When her biological grandfather dies, he leaves her more than just his estate. She inherits the family business and is a mob boss of a crime syndicate trying to go legit. Dominic Chianese co-stars in this original two-hour movie, "Crimes of Fashion" (8 p.m., ABC Family).
Billed as cable's longest-running "programming event," "Shark Week" (8 p.m., Discovery Channel) returns for a 17th season. The shows "Primal Scream" and "Tiger Shark Attack: Fear the Bite" emphasize how dangerous sharks can be.
Check out "Sam Peckinpah's West" (8 p.m., Encore Westerns), a profile of the director best known for "The Wild Bunch" (1969). The violence of that film left Peckinpah, a Hollywood maverick, with the nickname "Bloody Sam," though not all of his subsequent work followed that pattern. He died in 1984 at age 59.
"On the Road With Circus Kids" (8:30 p.m., Nicklelodeon) is a special edition of "Nick News" with Linda Ellerbee visiting with five young members of a family who perform in the Culpepper & amp; Merriweather Circus.
"Murder on the Orient Express" (8 p.m., CBS) casts Alfred Molina and Meredith Baxter in the leads of this 2001 TV remake of the Agatha Christie mystery. This one is set in the present, which may be a drawback to viewers familiar with the 1930s milieu of the well-known 1974 movie.
The series "Dead Like Me" (10 p.m., Showtime) returns for a second season with George (Ellen Muth) still dead and still assigned to help the newly dead on their journey to their eternal reward.