The Remote - March 16

American Idol

8 p.m., Fox

Oh dear. A Top 12 without Alex Lambert, and the gang tackles the Rolling Stones? Good heavens. This might be that last sign of the apocalypse I've been waiting for. Adam Lambert knocked everyone out last year in the pre-Top 12 round with Satisfaction, so here's me fervently hoping that no one goes there. My favorite Stones' song is Wild Horses, and if anyone other than Crystal Bowersox sings it, I'm going to go apocalyptic. Speaking of ol' Crystal, I don't think it was low blood sugar that made her so sour last Thursday during the bloodletting. I think she is not made for this process, in which a mortal is sacrificed to the ratings gods every week. I'm thinking Miss Dreads might end up being the first Idol to quit, for moral and ethical reasons. I'm just saying.

Lost

9 p.m., ABC

Dr. Linus. Very interesting. In his New L.A. Now, Ben has a Dad, whom he loves and cares for, and with whom he once lived on an island when Dad worked the Dharma project. Oh, those were good times, oxygenated Dad recalls. New Ben has a plan for high school domination, but he ends up opting to do the right thing for Alex-But-Not-His-Daughter, therefore setting right what he did on the island when he let the mercenary (who got his comeuppance at the hands of New Now Sayid) kill Alex-Who-Is-His-Daughter. Plus, the whole Richard thing was great, and the fact that Jack is 100 million percent a man of faith now, well, I have no idea what it means but I love it. Plus, the return of Widmore! Tonight, "Locke gives Sawyer a mission." Which leads me to believe we are embarking on Sawyer's New Now.

The Good Wife

10 p.m., CBS

So ... it turned out those condoms were Zach's. The fallout of that little piece of domestic drama is that Eli Gold's bleak prediction for Bratty Becca's future is likely to come true, except Zach is the Baby Daddy in that scenario. This show gets better and better, and now it looks like it's really going to start heating up.