Rose Leslie has joined the cast of The Good Wife spinoff, which will debut on CBS All Access.
“We’re thrilled to have Rose on board,” executive producers Robert and Michelle King said in a statement. “We needed a young actress who could hold her own with Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo, and Rose is perfect. She’s real, she’s strong and she can play comedy. If we designed an actress from the ground up, we couldn’t have done better.”
The series is set to debut in February of 2017.
The Good Wife spinoff series is officially set to premiere on CBS All Access in February 2017!
Starring Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo, the streaming show will pick up one year after the finale of the original CBS drama.
The network also just announced that Star Trek: Discovery will be pushed back to May 2017 to allow the creative team more time.
“Bringing Star Trek back to television carries a responsibility and mission: to connect fans and newcomers alike to the series that has fed our imaginations since childhood,” executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Bryan Fuller said. “We aim to dream big and deliver, and that means making sure the demands of physical and post-production for a show that takes place entirely in space, and the need to meet an air date, don’t result in compromised quality. Before heading into production, we evaluated these realities with our partners at CBS and they agreed: Star Trek deserves the very best, and these extra few months will help us achieve a vision we can all be proud of.”
The series will start shooting in November in Toronto, Canada.
The Good Wife spinoff starring Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo has been officially confirmed by CBS at their Upfront presentation, which is just underway in New York City.
The show will air on CBS All Access, which launches in January of 2017.
Christina will reprise her role of Diane Lockhart in the series, while Cush will also reprise her role as Lucca. Deadline reports other original cast members may join in too.
The Good Wife just wrapped up its final season a few weeks ago. Stay tuned for more news from the network!
This is awesome news for fans of The Good Wife – a spinoff is in the works for Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo!
Christine has been playing Diane Lockhart since episode one and Cush became a fan favorite in the show’s seventh and final season with her character Lucca Quinn.
If negotiations for the series go through, the show will air on CBS All Access and The Good Wife‘s co-creators, Robert and Michelle King, are expected to act as showrunners, according to Variety.
Another major series that will air on CBS’ subscription VOD service, which costs $6 a month, is the new Star Trek reboot.
SPOILER ALERT! Don’t continue reading if you don’t want to know what happened on the series finale of The Good Wife.
The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King sat down for an interview to discuss the series finale episode, which just aired on CBS.
“To talk about the end of the series, is probably to talk about the beginning of the series, because we started with this feeling that it should begin with a slap and end with a slap. The show is about a woman who becomes more and more confident and more and more cunning,” Robert says.
Watch the video below for more!
Are you ready for tonight’s final episode of The Good Wife?
The hit CBS show, starring Julianna Margulies, Christine Baranski, Matt Czuchry, Alan Cumming, and Chris Noth, will end its seven-season run.
“It should be surprising but inevitable,” executive producer Robert King told EW about the series finale. “That’s a very difficult bar to hit, so…be kind. I hope viewers will feel like they want to start at the beginning of the series again. I hope it’s like Finnegans Wake, where the end leads them right back to the beginning.”
There are rumors that former series regular Josh Charles will appear.
The Good Wife finale airs TONIGHT, May 8 @ 9PM on CBS!
Julianna Margulies takes her coffee to-go while leaving The Late Show with Stephen Colbert after taping her interview on Thursday (April 28) in New York City.
The 49-year-old actress is busy promoting the upcoming series finale of The Good Wife, which airs on Sunday, May 8.
Julianna was asked about her rumored feud with former co-star Archie Panjabi.
“It’s all silly gossip, and I don’t want to go there,” she told the New York Times.
As for whether she would ever do a 22-episode network television show again, Julianna said, “There’s no amount of money in the world.”
FYI: Julianna is wearing an Antonio Berardi dress.
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