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Photo Margot Robbie and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street. Credit Mary Cybulski/Paramount Pictures

Feeling indulgent? Watch The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorseses entertaining and appalling exploration of excess, starring an Oscar-nominated Leonardo DiCaprio. Take some supercars for a spin with Jay Leno and friends. Or binge on the bling in The Art of More.

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THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013) 7 p.m. on FX. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jordan Belfort, a crooked stock trader and despicable human being whose charm makes him almost impossible to despise wallowing in the ecstasies of money in Martin Scorseses bacchanal of drugs, s*x and greed. Matthew McConaughey is the brokerage-firm honcho who teaches Jordan that a brokers only mission is to make money for himself. Jonah Hill is the first of the losers to join Jordans penny-stock outfit with the fake blue-blood name once the 1987 crash flushes him out of Wall Street. And Margot Robbie is the busty trophy wife Jordan eventually upgrades to. The Wolf of Wall Street hums with vulgar, voyeuristic energy, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. It has been a while since Mr. Scorsese has thrown himself into filmmaking with this kind of exuberance. This movie, he added, may tire you out with its hammering, swaggering excess, but it is never less than wide-awake.

Photo Natasha Leggero, left, and Riki Lindhome in Another Period. Credit Danny Feld/Comedy Central

ANOTHER PERIOD 10 p.m. on Comedy Central. Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome return as Lillian and Beatrice, the fame-grubbing sisters from the debauched Bellacourts, that fictional first family of early-20th-century Newport, R.I. In this season premiere they meet Harriet Tubman, who offers advice on how best to create a brand for themselves.

AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN WILLIAMS 10 p.m. on TNT. Mr. Williams becomes the first composer to receive the American Film Institutes highest honor. Steven Spielberg, with whom he has collaborated on more than 25 films among them Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Schindlers List presented the award Thursday at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.

JAY LENOS GARAGE 10 p.m. on CNBC. Mr. Leno, who owns about 130 cars and more than 90 motorcycles, switches things up by cruising in some friends supercars, including Nick Cannons Ferrari California and Robert Herjavecs Lamborghini Countach. Mr. Leno also appears on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, at 11:35 on NBC.

SKIN WARS: FRESH PAINT 10 p.m. on GSN. RuPaul hosts this Skin Wars spinoff, in which artists new to body painting compete for $10,000.

Whats StreamingPhoto Dennis Quaid and Kate Bosworth in The Art of More. Credit Philippe Bosse/Crackle

THE ART OF MORE on Crackle. Still greedy? Binge on the bling in this drama about the ugly side of pretty things. Dennis Quaid and Cary Elwes star as conspicuous consumers of smuggled art. Christian Cooke is their auction-house enabler. Neil Genzlinger of The Times calls it tasty.

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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/arts/television/whats-on-tv-wednesday.html