'The Good Wife' Spinoff News: New Series Starring Christine Baranski, Cush Jumbo Reportedly in Development at CBS
CBS is negotiating a spinoff of its recently-concluded legal/political drama "The Good Wife," The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
According to THR and other media outlets, the network is currently in final negotiations for the spinoff, which will revolve around "The Good Wife" actress Christine Baranski's Diane Lockhart character. The spinoff will also reportedly have Cush Jumbo reprising her role as Lucca Quinn.
Variety reports that the new series will air on CBS All Access. "The Good Wife" creators Michelle and Robert King are said to be in talks to co-write the first episode and serve as executive producers. They will not, however, serve as showrunners.
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The news that CBS is developing a spinoff broke just days after "The Good Wife" aired its series finale on May 8. While talk of a spinoff has been making the Internet rounds since early this year, the speculation was refuelled when the show's final episode left the door wide open for an exploration of Lockhart's professional and personal lives.
In the May 8 finale, Lockhart and Julianna Margulies' Alicia Florrick ended their professional relationship, with the former slapping the latter. Their falling-out also seemingly put an end to their plans of putting up an all-female firm. To further complicate things, the series-ender shook Lockhart's marriage to Kurt McVeigh (Gary Cole) with an allegation of infidelity.
By the end of the episode, Lockhart was shown working for the same firm as Quinn.
In an interview with THR in April, Baranski spoke about wanting to work with the "Good Wife" creators in the future, saying, "I always thought they understood me as an actress and they wrote beautifully for actors and they wrote women very well."
"So, of course I would hope to cross paths with them again," she added.
According to Variety, the spinoff is being developed not for CBS but for its All Access digital subscription service. Should the new drama push through, it would mark the service's second high-profile order after its new rendition of "Star Trek."
CBS has not released an official announcement regarding the spinoff.
