TODAY’S TV HIGHLIGHTS

SERIES

Bachelor Pad: Also-rans from “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” shack up together for a second chance at romance on this new spin-off series (8 p.m. ABC).

Samantha Brown’s Asia: Malaysia is the latest stop for your intrepid hostess in this new installment (8 p.m. Travel).

Last Comic Standing: The latest winner of the comedy competition is announced in the season finale (9 p.m. NBC).

Intervention: A heroin addict faces his lifelong demons in this new episode (9 p.m. A&E).

The Closer: The team sees evidence that suggests a Mexican drug cartel has set up operations in our fair city in this new episode of the police procedural (9 p.m. TNT).

SPECIALS

Freedom Week With Judge Napolitano: This five-night series of specials explores such topics as privacy, commerce and free speech (6 p.m. Fox Business Network).

Teen Choice 2010: Pop music’s Katy Perry and the young male stars of the hit series “Glee” team up to host this youth-oriented awards show (8 p.m. Fox).

MOVIES

Pineapple Express: The high times don’t stop for Seth Rogen and James Franco in this 2008 action-comedy directed by David Gordon Green (1:40 and 9 p.m. Starz).

Bonnie and Clyde: Turner Classic Movies’ salute to Warren Beatty includes this 1967 drama about the fabled Depression-era bank robbers; Faye Dunaway also stars (3 p.m. TCM).

El Espíritu de la Salsa: Disparate New Yorkers learn how to salsa dance in this 2010 documentary (9 p.m. HBO).

Ran: Akira Kurosawa directed this visually-stunning 1985 epic that reworks Shakespeare’s “King Lear” as a samurai-era drama (10 p.m. Sundance).

SPORTS

Baseball: The Red Sox visit the Yankees (11 a.m. MLB), the Cardinals visit the Reds (4 p.m. ESPN), and the Angels host the Royals (7 p.m. FSN).