Wednesday’s TV Highlights: ‘America’s Next Top Model’ is set in Hawaii

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VOLCANIC: Jennifer An and the rest of the four remaining models are asked to channel Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes, during their photo shoot on “America’s Next Top Model” at 8 p.m. on KTLA. SERIES

Mercy: Estranged since her affair became public, Veronica and Mike (Taylor Schilling, Diego Klattenhoff) are reunited by a family crisis (8 p.m. NBC).

The 43rd Annual CMA Awards: Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood co-host; scheduled performers include Jason Aldean, Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire, Darius Rucker, George Strait, Sugarland, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban (8 p.m. ABC).

P.O.V.: This new episode ‘The Way We Get By’ profiles senior citizens Bill Knight, Jerry Mundy and Joan Gaudet, who have greeted nearly 800,000 American troops in Bangor, Maine (8 p.m. KCET).

Criminal Minds: When a series of murders seems to be following the trail of a rock star’s tour, Rossi (Joe Mantegna) and the team wonder if their killer is the singer -- who seems to have gotten lost in his onstage alter ego. Real-life rocker Gavin Rossdale guest stars in this new episode (9 p.m. CBS).

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Stabler (Christopher Meloni) is dealing with a sensitive case involving photos of a 15-year-old rape victim that were posted online, and at the same time, his son (Jeffrey Scaperrotta) is in a dangerous situation in this new episode (9 p.m. NBC).

Glee: Will (Matthew Morrison) encourages the members of the glee club to perform in wheelchairs in support of Artie (Kevin McHale) (9 p.m. Fox).

MythBusters: Adam and Jamie test whether an out-of-control car really crashes and burns every time (9 p.m. Discovery).

CSI: NY: After a tractor-trailer accident results in the discovery of an interstate trucking ring specializing in human cargo and black-market organ harvesting, Mac (Gary Sinise) summons Dr. Ray Langston (Laurence Fishburne) to New York when the team identifies a woman hidden in the big rig as someone Langston had interviewed in Miami, in the second of a three-episode arc crossing over the three ‘CSI’ series (10 p.m. CBS).

South Park: Cartman is chosen to do the school’s morning announcements, and he has his own agenda, in this new episode (10 p.m. Comedy Central).

Ghost Hunters Academy: In this new spinoff of ‘Ghost Hunters,’ two members of the Atlantic Paranormal Society, Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango, show college students how to investigate reports of paranormal activity (10 p.m. Syfy).

MOVIES

Bad Day at Black Rock: Spencer Tracy plays a stranger who arrives in an isolated Western town in search of a fallen war hero’s father. A Japanese American, allegedly sent to an internment camp and never returned, but the visitor soon learns the locals’ awful secret, which they’re willing to kill to keep. Robert Ryan and Ernest Borgnine also star in this 1955 drama (3:30 p.m. TCM).

SPORTS

Hockey: The Kings visit the Carolina Hurricanes (4 p.m. FSN); the Ducks visit the New Jersey Devils (4 p.m. FS Prime).

Basketball: The Cleveland Cavaliers visit the Orlando Magic (5 p.m. ESPN); the New Orleans Hornets visit the Phoenix Suns (7:30 p.m. ESPN); the Oklahoma City Thunder visits the Clippers (7:30 p.m. FS Prime).

College football: Toledo at Central Michigan (5 p.m. ESPN2).