Top 10 TV things for the week of March 11, 2012

1. “Once Upon a Time” (ABC, Sunday, 8 p.m.) While ABC has been trying to find the next “Desperate Housewives”-style soap smash for Sunday, this fairy tale drama has quietly built a nice following. It’s good gentle fun.

2. “The Good Wife” (CBS, Sunday, 9 p.m.) It’s gotten a little soapy, but it still may be the best legal drama on TV.

3. “The Walking Dead” (AMC, Sunday, 9 p.m.) Or, if you don’t feel like watching lawyers chew each other up, maybe you should watch zombies give it a try.

4. “Breakout Kings” (A&E, Sunday, 10 p.m.) This is what cable dramas can do well: a simple, stripped-down, focused drama with characters we like.

5. “The Voice” (NBC, Monday, 8 p.m.) It’s more than a fad. It may not deliver an army of stars, but it’s fast-moving and fun.

6. “2 Broke Girls” (CBS, Monday, 8:30 p.m.) It’s a rerun this week. Shut up and watch anyway.

7. “My Super Psycho Sweet 16 Part 3” (MTV, Tuesday, 10 p.m.) Television so rarely embraces the teen slasher genre as lovingly as it does here. It’s almost a shame this is the — heh, heh — last in the series.

8. “Justified” (FX, Tuesday, 10 p.m.) A modern-day Western that can stand with the best of the old ones, thanks largely to Timothy Olyphant as Elmore Leonard’s Raylan Givens.

9. “Nikita” (CW, Friday, 8 p.m.) The CW has almost fallen off the radar lately, but “Nikita” is still a fun action show, and Maggie Q is great to watch.

10. “In Plain Sight” (USA, Friday, 10 p.m.) Alas, this is the final season for this drama about a neurotic marshal who is very good with other people’s lives and not so good with her own.

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Top 10 movie things for week of March 11, 2012

1. “John Carter” finally arrives, without “... of Mars” as part of its title. Disney probably didn’t want audiences to think it was another Republican primary candidate.

2. Angelina Jolie wants a better screenplay for a “Salt” sequel. Her right leg, though, loved a scene where it blew away a team of evil, terrorist legs.

3. “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax” opens huge, with a Thneed-shaking $70 million-plus weekend.

4. “Hunger Games” author Suzanne Collins gives the movie version “a thumbs-up.” Then she goes back to eating a giant plate of money.

5. A battle royal: Best Actress winner Julia Roberts plays the evil queen in this month’s Snow White update “Mirror, Mirror” — the same role Best Actress winner Charlize Theron plays in June’s “Show White and the Huntsman.”

6. An actor named Joel Kinnaman will be the new RoboCop. Producers searched high and low for just the right chin.

7. Ryan Reynolds says he’s still hoping to do a movie as Marvel character Deadpool. Now showing at the bottom of the Deadpool: A double feature of “The Change-Up” and “Green Lantern .”

8. First picture of Johnny Depp's upcoming "The Lone Ranger" is released. In the comics, LR was related to the Green Hornet, and look how that movie turned out.

9. Lindsay Lohan's March 3 hosting gig on "Saturday Night Live." Her last time on the show was in 2006 to promote "Just My Luck." Now she's pushing her luck.

10. After this summer’s “Battleship,” get ready for the next board-game movie, “Ouija.” Hey look what it’s spelling out! P...l...e...a...s...e... D...o...n...’t... M...a...k...e... T...h...i...s...

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