CBS All Access To Premiere ‘Good Wife’ Spinoff ‘The Good Fight’ On Feb. 19 Posted by Wilson Morales
December 7, 2016
Source: Variety
Variety is reporting that CBS All Access, CBS’ VOD and live streaming service. will premiere “The Good Fight,” a spinoff of its recently cancelled series “The Good Wife,” on Feb. 19, 2017.
The series will star Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo, who will reprise their roles as Diane Lockhart and Lucca Quinn from the original series, along with Rose Leslie, Delroy Lindo, Erica Tazel , Sarah Steele, Justin Bartha, Paul Guilfoyle, and Bernadette Peters.
After airing in February with a special broadcast on the CBS Television Network, the series will move exclusively to CBS All Access. Executive Producer Brooke Kennedy is directing the premiere episode. The series will air on Sundays, keeping in tradition in which The Good Wife aired.
The Good Fight picks up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of The Good Wife. In the new series, an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor Diane Lockhart’s savings. Forced out of Lockhart & Lee, they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago’s pre-eminent law firms.
The Good Wife creators/executive producers return as showrunners and exec producers of the new series. Phil Alden Robinson co-wrote and will executive produce the premiere episode with the Kings. Ridley Scott, David Zucker, Liz Glotzer, Brooke Kennedy and Alison Cross also serve as executive producers. The series is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Scott Free Productions and King Size Productions. The series will be distributed worldwide by CBS Studios International.
