The “First Four,” as the games for final qualifiers looking to make it into this year’s NCAA basketball tourney are called, feature eight teams who have to win one “play-in” game to advance to spots held for them in the final bracket. Two games are shown tonight, two more tomorrow, all on TruTV. (Get used to finding basketball in unusual places this month). Tonight’s games: North Carolina AT&T vs. Liberty at 6:40 p.m. ET, followed by Middle Tennessee vs. S

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NEW GIRL By David Bianculli

This episode is a follow-up to “the kiss,” in which Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) stopped being platonic roommates – but only for one long, revealing, impulsive passionate embrace. On tonight’s new episode, Jess, once again, gets mushy – but this time it’s because her brain’s a little mushy, too, a side effect of her pain meds.

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HOW WE INVENTED THE WORLD By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new series about interconnected scientific discoveries asks how the smartphone was made possible by, for example, Frankenstein’s monster, movie star Hedy Lamarr, and the Titanic? There’s no need asking, though how they invented How We Invented the World. In theory, it’s a ripoff of James Burke’s classic science series of the 1970s, Connections.

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SMASH By David Bianculli

The biggest diva on this show, right now, is the one played by guest star Sean Hayes, who’s playing a popular comic actor with a huge ego and a sudden compulsion (fed by Megan Hilty’s Ivy) to take acting seriously. Is the transition working? Based on this point in the rehearsals for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the answer is a resounding no. And over at rehearsals for Bombshell, and for the other show within this show, Hit List, things aren’t so great, either.

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JUSTIFIED By David Bianculli

I’ve seen the previews, so calling this week’s show an explosive episode is by no means an exaggeration. There’s one point where a lot of things, in the words of those Farm Film Report guys from SCTV, “blow up real good.” Could you expect any less, with Boyd and the Detroit mob on one side, and Raylan and the elusive Drew Thompson on the other? What a show.

2013

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HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, Robin asks Barney to sell his bachelor pad, so they can live in a place with fewer of his conquest-specific … memories. Good move, but Barney doesn’t agree.

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TOP OF THE LAKE By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Jane Campion co-wrote and co-directed this seven-part miniseries, which stars Elisabeth Moss from Mad Men as a New Zealand detective who returns home to visit family, only to be asked to help solve a local mystery. It’s a strong series of character studies – as full of angst as The Killing, but done the Kiwi way. Holly Hunter co-stars, but the standouts here are Moss (what a performance!) and, playing the menacing father of a girl who goes missing, Peter Mullan (

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MARS ATTACKS! By David Bianculli

Every time I visit this 1996 Tim Burton comedy, its imaginative design, and so many of its playful performances, make me smile, from Jack Nicholson’s dual role to Martin Short’s smarmy one. And the aliens are perfect: Ack! Ack! Ack!

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BATES MOTEL By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Freddie Highmore plays a young Norman Bates, and Vera Farmiga is his mother Norma, in this prequel to 1960’s Psycho that ignores timeline logic by setting this earlier chapter of Norman’s life in the present day. But give it a chance, because eventually, it starts to gel. See Ed Bark's full review in Uncle Barky's Bytes.

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