Sundance, 8:00 p.m. ET
Noomi Rapace, who stars in this original Swedish movie version of the international bestselling thriller, is shown here in even finer form, in an extended version that occupies all of Sundance’s prime time schedule tonight.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Tonight’s lineup is a salute to writer Dashiell Hammett, whom the evening’s host, Eddie Muller, pronounces as Dash-EEL, which he insists is correct. (Great. One more name I’ve been mispronouncing all my life, along with what I used to call J.D. Salinger’s Franny and ZOO-ey. Sigh.) It starts off with the movie The Maltese Falcon, but not the familiar Humphrey Bogart vehicle. This one, from a decade earlier (1931, to be precise), stars Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade. Other films in tonight’s tribute include 1936’s After the Thin Man at 11 p.m. ET, and, at 2:30 a.m., the classic 1941 Bogey version of The Maltese Falcon.
BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET
MINISERIES PREMIERE: Part 2 of 3. Can zombies be rehabilitated? That’s the odd twist behind this twisted little British import, which imagines a zombie outbreak after the discovery of an alleged cure. How trustworthy is it? And how trusting will humans be, with “former” zombies in their midst? After all, if ex-zombies fall off the wagon, they’re liable to take some people with them – which really bites.
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
This week’s lineup includes some out-of-the-mainstream voices, including now-maverick filmmaker Tom Shadyac and comic Dana Gould. Bill Maher hosts.
IFC, 10:00 p.m. ET
Danny Trejo, from Sons of Anarchy and some familiar recent “grindhouse” movies, guest stars as a man Marc Maron meets in AA, and decides to sponsor. Cut to: a guy on the floor, bound and bloody, with a gag in his mouth and a nervous Maron standing over him, trying to intercede.