AMC, 10:00 a.m. ET
It’s a zombie jamboree! Tomorrow night at 9 ET, AMC presents the Season 3 premiere of The Walking Dead – and as a perfect prelude to that new episode launch, presents a marathon showing of every episode from the first two seasons. It begins at 10 a.m. ET today with the unforgettable opening episode, then goes on from there, right up to tomorrow’s fresh installment.
HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
What a wonderful movie. George Clooney dons Hawaiian shirts (and no, that’s not why I like this 2011 drama) to play a largely oblivious family man suddenly faced with a severely ill wife and some unexpected adversities and realizations. It’s a delightful film (great soundtrack, too), and writer-director Alexander Payne brings out an entirely different side of Clooney.
TBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
The New York Yankees, exactly 24 hours after notching their do-or-die Game 5 victory against the Baltimore Orioles, face the Detroit Tigers in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. The Tigers, too, had to go the distance with a five-game series to reach this point, so both teams are tested, and fired up.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Graham Greene wrote both the story and screenplay for this 1949 Carol Reed movie, which stars Joseph Cotten as a pulp novelist poking around in Vienna, investigating the death of an old friend (played, with panache, by Orson Welles). A film noir classic.
NBC, 11:29 p.m. ET
Tonight’s new episode features Christina Applegate as guest host, and Passion Pit as the musical guest. Let’s just hope the writing is sharper than last week’s show, a season low, and, so far, a decade low.