May 2016

 

THE GOOD WIFE

THE GOOD WIFE has been named one of AFI’s Top Television Shows, won the Television Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Drama and garnered five Emmy nominations and three Golden Globe nominations.  The drama stars Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a disgraced wife who returns to work as a lawyer after her husband, Peter Florrick, is imprisoned following a scandal.  After starting her own firm and finding success as a litigator alongside her colleagues Diane Lockhart and Cary Agos, Peter’s trusted advisor, Eli Gold, convinces Alicia to run for State’s Attorney, the position once infamously held by her husband. Following a win at the polls after a hard-fought campaign, Alicia is forced to step down from office when voter fraud threatens the Democratic party in the state of Illinois. Now, with her political career over before it began and without a law firm to call her own, she cautiously begins to practice law, becoming an attorney for arrestees seeking release on bail, with the assistance of Jason Crouse, a calm, experienced hourly investigator whom she hires. In the course of her new job, she meets Lucca Quinn, a fellow lawyer who competes for her clients. And as Alicia tries to reinvent herself, Peter, now Governor of Illinois, contemplates a bid for the Presidency that may thrust her into the spotlight once again.

Begins its seventh season October 4, 2015 on the CBS Television Network

 

ON AIR: Sundays (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT)

ORIGINATION: New York

ORIGINAL PREMIERE DATE: September 22, 2009

FORMAT: Drama (Filmed in HD)

STARRING:    Julianna Margulies (Alicia Florrick)

Christine Baranski (Diane Lockhart)

Matt Czuchry (Cary Agos)

Alan Cumming (Eli Gold)

Zach Grenier (David Lee)

Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Jason Crouse)

Cush Jumbo (Lucca Quinn)

PRODUCED BY: CBS Television Studios

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Ridley Scott, Robert King, Michelle King, David Zucker, Brooke Kennedy, Craig Turk and Leonard Dick

CREATED BY: Robert King and Michelle King

Photos now available at http://cbspressexpress.com.

Official CBS Web site: http://www.cbs.com/thegoodwife

Facebook: www.facebook.com/thegoodwife

Instagram: @thegoodwife_cbs

Twitter: www.twitter.com/thegoodwife_cbs

Cast and Crew on Twitter:

Alan Cumming @AlanCumming

The Good Wife Writers Room @GoodWifeWriters

Costume Designer Dan Lawson @danlawsonstyle

Set Decorator Beth Kushnick @BethKushnick

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Press Contacts:

Lauren Kamm             212-975-3869 lauren.kamm@cbs.com

Kate Fisher                 212-975-3818 khfisher@cbs.com

Photo Contacts:

Meagan McLaughlin   212-975-7518 mcmclaughlin@cbs.com