Rose McIver continues her star turn as the likable, well-meaning, brain-eating zombie in this clever new twist on the genre. What this new series established last week is that the undead heroine Liv, as she munches on the brains of cadavers in the morgue, temporarily absorbs their memories, skills and even some of their emotions. And this week, her new dietary organ donor gives her an unexpected case of heightened libido. I guess, even when you’re a zombie, it’s true: You are what yo

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JUSTIFIED By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is titled “Trust” – and there’s not much of it between two of this week’s featured bad-boy backwoods characters. Walton Goggins’ Boyd Crowder and Mykelti Williamson’s Ellstin Limehouse don’t have much use for one another – or, at least, haven’t up to now. But with only a few episodes remaining in this great series, there’s no telling how things are going to end up, much less who is going to end up standing.

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GREY GARDENS By David Bianculli

Speaking of Grey Gardens, tonight TCM presents a special lineup in tribute to the late Albert Maysles, who, with his brother David, made a series of pioneering documentaries – three of which are shown tonight. The evening begins with 1976’s Grey Gardens, their chillingly bizarre, intimate and unforgettable portrait of the mother and daughter, relatives of Jackie Kennedy, who later were reimagined in a docudrama, played by Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore.

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IT'S ME, HILARY: THE MAN WHO DREW ELOISE By David Bianculli

Matt Wolf directed this documentary, but Lena Dunham, one of its executive producers and on-air interviewers, is the spiritual tour guide. The subject she’s profiling is Hilary Knight, the illustrator of the Eliose children’s books about the precocious little girl who lived in New York’s Plaza Hotel. Dunham clearly is enchanted by the man’s free-spirited drawings, his artifact-filled home and his uninhibited imagination, which results in home-movie “productions&rdqu

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BETTER CALL SAUL By David Bianculli

Last week, we got to see Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill working more closely alongside Jonathan Banks’ Mike Ehrmentraut. This week, we get to see Jimmy working closely with his older brother – on a case that may point the path to how Jimmy began to slip into the moral ambiguity of his alter ego, Saul.

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GIMME SHELTER By David Bianculli

In the summer of 1969, the Woodstock music festival, eventually immortalized in a documentary film, exemplified the premise and promise of the flower-power generation. But before that year was out, another rock concert showed the other, ugly side of that coin, when the Rolling Stones watched from the stage as their own security team of Hell’s Angels assaulted, and killed, a concertgoer. The Maysles brothers were filming, and this nonfiction movie is their harrowing account – not only

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THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This ought to be interesting. James Corden, who won a Tony on Broadway for his comic antics, becomes the latest performer from abroad to sit behind the desk of an American TV talk show. Craig Ferguson, who held this job for a decade before Corden inherited it, made it work, quickly, by being true to his own tastes and personality – and I expect Corden to do the same. For more, see Bianculli’s Blog.

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NEW 'LATE LATE SHOW' HOST ABOUT TO FILL THE COUCH By David Bianculli

UPDATE: Fresh Air opening-night review link included inside...The latest new entry in TV’s late-night landscape arrives tonight – and like his The Late Late Show predecessor on CBS, he arrives straight from the U.K., with his own ideas about how to host…

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2015 MEN'S NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

Villanova became the first No. 1 seed to drop, Kentucky held off a fierce challenge from Cincinnati to continue its history-making undefeated streak, and eight more games are played today, shown on CBS, TNT, TBS and TruTV. The two No. 1 seeds hitting the court today are the South’s Duke, against No. 8 San Diego State, shown at 2:40 p.m. ET on CBS, and the West’s Wisconsin, battling No. 8 Oregon at 7:45 p.m. ET on TruTV. The most anticipated game may be the rare NCAA tournament clash

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THE GOOD WIFE By David Bianculli

It’s election day, and Alicia’s husband may have found a way to support her and undercut her at the same time. Meanwhile, Alicia is hunting for a political win – while Diane (Chrisntine Baranski) is hunting, too. But she’s doing it literally, on an outdoorsy trip with husband Kurt (Gary Cole), as well as figuratively, rubbing up against deep-pockets friends of Kurt’s whom she sees as potential clients.

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