The Walking Dead (AMC, Sunday) — 90-minute season premiere. As I wrote earlier, the people who’ve screened the first two episodes have had very good things to say. It’s still too early to be sure, but it looks like “The Walking Dead” will survive the drama of a new writing staff, budget arguments, and a fired showrunner. (Since the awesome video of all the Season 1 zombie kills got pulled, you’ll just have to settle for some sweet zombie kill GIFs until Sunday night.)

Saturday Night Live (NBC) — The terrific Anna Faris hosts, with terrible musical guest Drake.

Dexter (Showtime, Sunday) — Jennifer Carpenter to NY Mag: “It’s harder and harder to justify” Deb not realizing her brother is a serial killer.

Dune (BBC America, Friday) — Why the hell are we getting unnecessary remakes of Footloose when improved special effects technology totally warrants a remake of Dune?

Boardwalk Empire (HBO, Sunday) — I’m two episodes behind. Have we seen Paz de la Huerta’s boobs yet this season?

CSI: New York (CBS, Friday) — Experiencing “Breaking Bad” withdrawal? Dean Norris (Hank in “BB”) guest stars as a police lieutenant in tonight’s episode. Joey McIntyre also guest stars, but I don’t cater to people experiencing New Kids on the Block withdrawal.

Next week, each of the three variants of “CSI” — “CSI: Miami,” “CSI: New York,” and “CSI: Original Flavor” — will take part in a “triple crossover” episode in which Laurence Fishburne goes around to all three cities because a killer has cast the various limbs of slain hookers across those cities. Probably not the most efficient way to kill hookers, but then I’m not an expert. *knowing wink*

The behind-the-scenes promo video below features Fishburne’s narration and some fabulous overacting from Warming Glow muse David Caruso. There’s also a point where Fishburne puts on Caruso’s sunglasses and instantly looks like Morpheus. Well, Morpheus if Morpheus got fat. Anyway, that’s how the Photoshop happened. I guess I could’ve Voltronned it up with some robot lions, but I didn’t want it to look too busy. I’m an artist, you know.

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