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2019

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CBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

SERIES FINALE: The Big Bang Theory premiered in September 2007 – which is a long, long while ago, even in the relative universe of time and TV. Put it this way: The Big Bang Theory was into its second season when Barack Obama was elected President. And tonight, it ends – and I expect a healthy initial audience, because this show has earned the hearts and minds it’s won over the years.

 
  
 
 

CW, 8:00 p.m. ET

The central gimmick of this show – that “functioning” zombie Liv (Rose McIver) can temporarily absorb the memories and skills of the murder victims whose brains she samples – has been passed on to her partner in “cold case” detection, Ravi (Fahul Kohil). And tonight, the two of them snack on competitive ballroom dancer brains, then try to solve their glitzy new murder case by training for their own ballroom dance-off. And for the occasion, the usually white-haired Liv decides that since she has more than one life, she’ll Liv this one as a redhead…

 
  
 
 

CBS, 9:01 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: It’s the Season 2 finale for Young Sheldon, which will continue next year on CBS. And since it’s narrated by Jim Parsons, it’s the only place where his Sheldon, or at least his voice, will continue on the network into 2020.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 9:30 p.m. ET

SPECIAL PREMIERE: There’s a long tradition of long-running, very popular TV situation comedies presenting not only a meaningful finale, as with the record-smashing M*A*S*H, but an after-celebration special, looking back on the show’s production and history – as with Cheers, Seinfeld and Friends, just to name three. This special, Unraveling the Mystery, shows the evolution of this particular sitcom, and how Chuck Lorre and company brought it to CBS and kept adjusting its recipe. And since it and its characters evolved more than most, this is a Big Bang that more than deserves to end not with a whimper.

 
  
 
 

Sundance, 10:00 p.m. ET

I seem to be writing the word “penultimate” a lot lately. It’s May, and a lot of series are fast approaching their season finales and finales – or, as is the case tonight on CBS’s The Big Bang Theory, jumping from the penultimate and presenting the ultimate. But tonight, Sundance’s State of the Union indeed is presenting its penultimate installment – and with only 20 minutes of dialogue-heavy drama left (tonight’s 10-minute episode and tomorrow’s similarly paced finale), I’m already starting to miss Tom and Louise, played respectively by Chris O’Dowd and Rosamund Pike.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.