The Good Wife Spinoff Ideas
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VERONICA & JACKIE
After losing their respective fortunes to the same Madoff-like scammer, longtime rivals (and moms of Alicia and Peter) Veronica (Stockard Channing) and Jackie (Mary Beth Peil) have no choice but to split the rent on a two-bedroom walkup in a sketchy neighborhood. Oh, and who's that across the hall but Cary's old court-appointed monitor Joy Grubick (Linda Lavin)? Add a little bitchery and a lot of wine and — voila! — a Golden Girls for a new generation!
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GOOD COUNSEL
The Kings have already said they're intrigued by the idea of building a show around fan-favorite supporting characters. To that end, how about a drama set in a new and intensely quirky firm led by the following partners: Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston), Patti Nyholm (Martha Plimpton), Nancy Crozier (Mamie Gummer), Caitlin D'Arcy (Anna Camp) and Clarke Hayden (Nathan Lane)?
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THE GOOD HUSBAND
Just as his fledgling law firm begins to lure high-end clients, former ADA Finn Polmar's (Matthew Goode) troubled marriage completely falls apart — leaving the show to explore the dashing single dad's quest to balance his thriving practice with his nascent dating life. C'mon, after barely getting to graze knees with Alicia, the gentleman is overdue for some seriously steamy action.
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THE GOLD STANDARD
Eli Gold (Alan Cumming) travels the country consulting on state and national political campaigns — with his plucky, wisecracking daughter Marissa (Sarah Steele) at his side.
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UNSCRUPULOUS UNCOUPLING
Deliciously manipulative David Lee (Zach Grenier) educates a team of earnest young attorneys about the business of divorces, pre-nups and custody agreements — and the ugly flip side of happily-ever-after.
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CHICAGO P.I.
Kalinda Sharma (Archie Panjabi), Robyn Burdine (Jess Weixler), Jason Crouse (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and even icky-hot Blake Calamar (Scott Porter) go into (super sexy) business together using their street smarts and flexible ethics to help clients when the legal system lets them down. (Sorry, Dick Wolf and NBC, but you'd have to arm-wrestle the Eye Network if you want this Windy City-set procedural to live in the same universe as Fire, P.D. and Med).
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CARY VS. CAREY
Cary Agos (Matt Czuchry) and Carey Zepps (Ben Rappaport) try cases (and butt heads on how to run their business) by day — but put their differences aside and party hard by night. (Would you judge us if we said we wanted the cast to include Phillip Shinn's Dirk — the young attorney who "misinterpreted" Cary's romantic interest in him early in Season 7?)
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MY NAME IS LUCCA
As Alicia rides off to whatever fate Robert and Michelle King have planned, her bright, ambitious pal and law partner Lucca Quinn (Cush Jumbo) hangs her shingle and fights the system as a champion of underdog clients in lawsuits against deep-pocketed corporate plaintiffs.
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JUDGES!
The wide range of character actors who've presided over the cases tried by Alicia, Diane, Will, Cary & Co. are the unsung heroes of The Good Wife. An ensemble drama set in their chambers — especially if Christine Baranski's Diane Lockhart finally gets a coveted judgeship — would be like nothing else on TV... in our opinion.
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THE GOOD DEALER
Oh, sure, we know Mike Colter's dance card is filled with Marvel's Luke Cage, but still, a limited series about his Lemond Bishop's struggle to make the move from Chicago's most dapperly dangerous drug lord to legitimate business man — aided by Wallace Shawn's slippery Charles Lester — would be an automatic add to our DVRs.
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THE WIRE-TAP BOYS
The Good Wife has mainly used Michael Urie and Tobias Segal's cubicle-bound eavesdroppers as comic relief, but imagine a paranoid, twisty (and, of course, intermittently funny) weekly thriller that begins each week with a piece of intel picked up from their listening devices.
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JUST PLEASE, DON'T GREENLIGHT...
CARY BEHIND BARS
No. Nope. Nyet. That whole arc was waaaaayyyyy too stressful to revisit.
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JUST PLEASE, DON'T GREENLIGHT...
THE LYMAN FILES
Some side characters are better left napping in their boxers on their office couches than carrying entire series.