The Good Wife
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TV review
Elsbeth review – a tedious spinoff for the Good Wife character who makes you want to smash your TVThis murder-of-the week drama – with its screamingly obvious solutions – was seemingly dreamed up in five minutes. It’s like a charmless Columbo, with brighter clothes
The G2 interview
‘How lucky was I?’: The Good Fight’s Christine Baranski on Sondheim, stardom and snobberyAs she prepares to star in the new ‘American Downton’, the 69-year-old actor talks about her blue-collar roots, her friendship with Stephen Sondheim — and the pleasures of late-career fame
Cush Jumbo: ‘He’s doing less screen time but being paid three times more? Er, no!’
The Good Fight star went from relative obscurity in the UK to primetime in the US. Now she’s coming home on her own terms
Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’
After living with Parkinson’s for 30 years, the actor still counts himself a lucky man. He reflects on what his diagnosis has taught him about hope, acting, family and medical breakthroughs
Best culture of the 21st century
The 100 best TV shows of the 21st centuryWhere’s Mad Men? How did The Sopranos do? Does The Crown triumph? Can anyone remember Lost? And will Downton Abbey even figure? Find out here – and have your say
Archie Panjabi: ‘Not getting on EastEnders didn’t turn out too badly’
Rejected by the soap three times, the British star was told an ‘Indian actress’ wouldn’t make it in Hollywood. Now she’s in demand both sides of the Atlantic ... just don’t ask about The Good Wife
Julianna Margulies on her shocking Ebola drama: 'I panicked in my hazmat suit!'
The star of ER and The Good Wife is back – as a doctor fighting to save humanity. She gives her bodyguard the slip to talk about our imperilled planet – and her love of Sussex A-roads
How The Good Fight became TV's most political drama
The third season of the ever-topical legal drama has delivered a torrent of righteous anger but has it gone too far?
Channel 4 to air censored episode of The Good Fight
Broadcaster ‘contractually obliged’ to show the legal drama in same format as CBS
The Good Fight review – a controlled explosion of fury at the Trump era
Now in its third season, the legal spinoff has become a vehicle for channelling liberal anger at these grotesque times. Prepare to be swept along entirely
2018 in TV
The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 7 – The Good FightChristine Baranski stormed through a breezily brilliant legal drama that delivered a cathartic howl against Trump’s America
Mamma Mia's Christine Baranski on schmoozing with Cher and meeting Trump
As the regal actor returns to cinema screens, she discusses her Abba-loving co-stars and her iconic role in The Good Fight
TV review
The Good Fight review – bold end to a risk-taking, Trump-baiting seasonWith ever more daring storylines, the absurdity of current US politics gets skewered by this wonderful witty and intelligent legal drama
The Good Fight: in praise of Diane Lockhart, one of TV's greatest characters
The dazzling second season of the legal spin-off drama has boasted many pleasures but nothing lingers quite as much as Christine Baranski’s multi-layered lead
From Jessica Jones to Chandler Bing: which TV characters need a makeover?
Which superheroes aren’t doing themselves justice with their ‘damaged genius’ uniform? Who needs to stop aping Easy Rider? Here’s our rundown of telly’s sartorial underachievers
From ER to The Sopranos: what were the most shocking TV deaths?
The Q&A
Archie Panjabi: ‘An agent told me an Indian woman could never have a Hollywood career'
McMafia, Next of Kin and the problem with 'slow' TV
Two of 2018’s biggest dramas have deployed glacial narratives shifts to tell their stories, but in the era of Peak TV and skip buttons they could become obsolete
Shortcuts
How to follow the Mueller probe (if your only knowledge of US justice comes from TV) When decoding terms in the Trump-Russia investigation, such as Rico, Fisa and grand jury, those hours spent watching the likes of The Wire, Homeland and The Sopranos finally come in handy
British TV and film industry 'pulls plug' on black actors, says Cush Jumbo
Cush Jumbo, speaking to a Labour arts diversity inquiry, says she often hit the ‘exotic best friend ceiling’
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