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Monday Television Guide THEY'RE back Critics corner By Matthew Gilbert How I Met Your Mother 30 p.m., Channel 4 How we meet Ted's parents. How meeting parents is never good for a sitcom. The Bachelor: Rome 9 p.m., Channel 5 A real-life prince? This show is a royal pain. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip 10 p.m., Channel 7 Viewers aren't cottoning to Matt and Danny. Alas, and Aaron, too.

1 7 JL i i THEY'RE back, too. Everwood 6 p.m., ABC Family With "Scrubs," "Six Feet Under," and "Everwood" now repeating, we're undergoing a mini-golden-age of syndication. This drama starring Treat Williams (left, with Vivien Car-done) is a sweet family story about a widower who makes a fresh start with his two kids. It will air nightly. Six Feet Under 9 and 10 p.m., Bravo This is one of those shows that many fans didn't watch when it aired on HBO.

Instead, they power-watched it on DVD. Now the series may develop yet another audience as it begins its syndication run on Bravo. Tonight: Meet the Fishers in the first two episodes. Pictured: Peter Krause (left) and Michael C. Hall.

That's the Question 6 p.m., GSN A new game hosted by Bob Goen. It should be cheery. Heroes 9 p.m., Channel 7 Greg Grunberg can hear your thoughts. And he's hurt. 1 ,9 '4 The Incredibles 8 p.m.

(ENCORE). VOICES OF CRAIG T. nelson, holly hunter. Animated. Now fighting boredom in suburbia, a former superhero and his family get a chance to save the world.

(2004) X-Men 8 p.m. (FX). HUGH jack-man, Patrick stewart. Professor Xavier leads Wolverine and other superheroes against Magneto, a mutant who would rule humanity. (2000) End Game 9 p.m.

(LIF). cuba GOODING JAMES WOODS. A Secret Service agent and a journalist investigate the assassination of the president. (200G) North Country 9 p.m. (HBO).

CHARLIZE THERON, FRANCES mcdormand. A constant barrage of abuse from her co-workers spurs a miner to file a sexual harassment lawsuit against her employer. (2005) U.S. Marshals 10:15 p.m. (MAX).

TOMMY LEE JONES, WESLEY snipes. A chief deputy and his team pursue an escaped fugitive accused of killing two government agents. (1998) Majoun Afropop Worldwide 11 p.m. wumb-fm (91.9) Puerto Rican music in New York City from Tito Puente, born in 1923, through today's Latin reggae movement. NETWORK CABLE MOVIES The Beverly Hillbillies 8 p.m.

(FAM). JIM VARNEY, CLORIS leachman. A woman hopes to tie up Jed Clampett, a mountain-man Easterner, and his newly acquired wealth in the bonds of matrimony. (1993) Getting Played 8 p.m. (BET).

CARMEN ELECTRA, STACEY dash. Three friends play a game of seduction on a stranger, but the tables are turned when he finds out about the joke. (2005) I Love Your Work 8 p.m. (SHO). GIOVANNI RIBISI, FRANKA potente.

A movie star begins a gradual descent into madness as he tries to come to terms with fame and its consequences. (2003) GLOBE ON NECN Globe at Home 12:30 p.m. Business writer Peter Howe on parking improvements and new airlines at Logan Airport. Around the Globe 5:30 p.m. News of the day.

Schedule is subject to change. ON BOSTON.COM Lunchbox Noon A Web-only video update of news, sports, entertainment, and weather. RADIO HIGHLIGHTS 9 a.m. wcrb-fm (102. s) Mozart: Piano Concerto No.

27, with pianist Murray Perahia. Studio 7 Noon wbos-fm (92.9) Sting live in concert. 7 p.m. wcrb-fm (102.5) Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, with Leonard Bernstein and the Boston Symphony.

Jazz With Eric in the Evening 8 p.m. wgbh-fm (89.7) The Harper Brothers Band. World Cafe 9 p.m. wumb-fm (91.9) Soul singer Corrine Bailey Rae, with host Michaela ON DEMAND Demonlover Comcast A chilly, narcotically engrossing tale of high-stakes corporate paranoia that, sadly, implodes into incoherence toward the end. Olivier Assayas has assembled a fascinating cast in Connie Nielsen, Chloe Sevigny, Gina Gershon (above), and Charles Berling, and he lets them go at each other with barely repressed savagery as business executives fighting over a Japanese porn-animation company.

Even if it loses steam eventually, shards of "Demonlover" may stick in your dreams for weeks. (Unrated) Ty Burr 4 SIDEKICK BOSTON GLOBE MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2006.