With spring-break season upon us, Lifetime presents “The Party Never Stops” (8 p.m., Lifetime), a cautionary tale of binge drinking on college campuses.

Sara Paxton stars as Jesse, the ambitious, athletic, overachieving daughter of April (Nancy Travis), a hardworking widow who is bursting with pride that Jesse will be the first in their family to attend college.

But within nanoseconds of matriculation, Jesse’s roommate, Shanna (Chelsea Hobbs), joins a sorority, and her ebullient sisters fill their dorm with booze, boys and war whoops of intoxicated frenzy.

The movie chronicles Jesse’s fall from track star to girl-gone-wild. Her plummet is punctuated by earnest lectures from April. The only real drama here is which roommate – Jesse or Shanna – will hit bottom first.

For all of her boozing, Jesse never seems to lose her looks or her figure. In fact, hangovers seem to make her glow with an inner light. If the makers of “Party” really wanted to reach their intended audience, they would show Jesse getting fat, or growing sallow and green, or, better yet, showing up to a party with dried vomit in her hair. But Paxton and her agent would probably have a problem with that. Like cautionary tales dating back to “Reefer Madness,” the target market for this film is more likely to laugh at it than learn from it.

¢ “The UCLA Dynasty” (9 p.m., HBO) looks at one of the great runs in sports history, when the UCLA men’s basketball team won 10 national championships in the 12 seasons between 1964 and 1975. Led by coach John Wooden, the Bruins also set a record with an 88-game winning streak.

As in previous HBO sports documentaries, “Dynasty” profiles the team and its accomplishments in the context of its time, an era that took America through the Vietnam War, a revolution in popular culture and seismic political shifts from the aftermath of the JFK assassination through the Watergate scandal.

¢ “Wide Angle” (9 p.m., PBS, check local listings) presents “Pilgrimage to Kabala,” a look at Shiva Islam. With historic origins dating back to the murder of Muhammad’s grandson, the Shia-Sunni split has reverberated throughout the centuries and still resonates in the bloodshed in Iraq, the defiance of Shia-led Iran and in the recent battles between Israel and Hezbollah.

Tonight’s other highlights

¢ Richard Roundtree (“Shaft”) guest stars on the season finale of “Lincoln Heights” (6 p.m., Family).

¢ Michael sets out to stop T-Bag on “Prison Break” (7 p.m., Fox).

¢ The competition continues on “Dancing with the Stars” (7 p.m., ABC).

¢ Chris must choose between time with his father and a chance with a girl on “Everybody Hates Chris” (7 p.m., CW).

¢ “Antiques Roadshow” (7 p.m., PBS, check local listings) looks for treasures in Mobile, Ala.

¢ It’s hard to look a gift horse in the mouth on the season finale of “Wildfire” (7 p.m., Family).

¢ HRG’s past catches up with him on “Heroes” (8 p.m., NBC).

¢ The acting president (Powers Boothe) seems bent on vengeance on “24” (8 p.m., Fox). Hey, what happened to Logan and his first lady?

¢ A bookmaking scheme targets a friend of Tommy’s on “The Black Donnellys” (9 p.m., NBC).

¢ A baby-sitting crisis erupts on the season finale of “What About Brian” (9 p.m., ABC).

Late night

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is scheduled on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” (10 p.m., Comedy Central) … Will Ferrell and Kings of Leon appear on “Late Show with David Letterman” (10:35 p.m., CBS) … Jay Leno is host to Quentin Tarantino, Pete Rose and Mika on “The Tonight Show” (10:35 p.m., NBC) … Robin Williams, Christan Slater and Panic! at the Disco appear on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” (11:35 p.m., NBC) … Craig Ferguson is host to Joss Stone on “The Late, Late Show” (11:37 p.m., CBS).