AMERICAN HUSTLE (2013) 7:35 p.m. on FXM. David O. Russell took the Abscam scandal of the late 1970s and early ’80s, covered it in hair and soaked it in whiskey with this screwball comedy. The film stars Christian Bale as Irving Rosenfeld, a con man with a comb-over; Amy Adams as Sydney Prosser, a con woman and Rosenfeld’s mistress; and Bradley Cooper as an F.B.I. agent out to con the con artists. It also features Jeremy Renner as a shady New Jersey mayor and Jennifer Lawrence as Rosenfeld’s wife. “‘American Hustle’ giddily embraces the excesses of its era, from spandex to ’staches,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The New York Times, “though it’s a farce that speaks as well to this tarnished age.”

BULLETPROOF 8 p.m. on the CW. This British import gives an English spin to the buddy cop genre, with the actors Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters playing a pair of London law enforcement officers who were also childhood friends. The first episode involves the pair on the tail of a gang who deal in the theft of expensive cars.