1. If The Good Wife becomes
a hit, we’ll have John Ed-
wards, Eliot Spitzer and—
most of all—their spouses to
thank. “There were [several]
scandals where wives stood
behind their disgraced politician
husbands,” says executive pro-
ducer Robert King. “Michelle [King,
his wife and cocreator/producer] and
I were curious about what was going
through their minds and what would
happentothemlater.Atthesametime,
my sister was restarting her career
as a lawyer after being home with her
kids. Those two ideas seemed to dove-
tail nicely.” Behold: A legal procedural
with a humiliated politician’s wife
at the center—a combo that
lured Julianna Margulies
back to TV after 2008’s ill-
fated Canterbury’s Law.
Clearly, she’s no worse
forthewear.Dressedasher
alter ego, Alicia Florrick, in
a formfitting suit, Margu-
lies seems right at home in
the Queens courthouse
where she’s filming Episode
3. “I wasn’t looking for
The
Good
Wife
Starring
Julianna Margulies
(pictured), Christine
Baranski, Josh Charles,
Matt Czuchry, Chris
Noth, Archie Panjabi
Premiere: 9/22,
10/9c, CBS;
CBS.com, TV.com
tuesday
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Photograph by jason bell