Is Julianna Margulies following her "Good Wife" showrunners out the door come the end of season seven? It sure sounded that way in a speech Margulies gave honoring Michelle and Robert King at the Casting Society of America's third annual Artios Awards on Thursday night.
"I surprised Robert and Michelle tonight," she said, as quoted by Vulture. "They didn't know I was going to be here. They think I'm here for them, but I'm unemployed come April, and I think you haven't seen me in a while, at least not in person, so I thought I should show up."
CBS President Glenn Geller announced on Jan. 12 at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that the Kings would exit their position as showrunners at the end of the current season to focus their efforts on their new CBS drama BrainDead. Geller also cited the show's "deep bench" of writers to fill the void, but the network has yet to renew "The Good Wife" for an eighth season.
The show's existence would hinge on Margulies' participation seeing as how she plays Alicia Florrick, the titular character of "The Good Wife." The Kings' already plan to wrap up their version of the show by season's end whether CBS renews the series or not.
"The bottom line is CBS is trying to make deals for an eighth season, so we would be there in a supervisory role, but the storytelling we have will finish in the seventh year," Robert King told TVLine. "That doesn't mean we're putting Alicia in her grave, because you couldn't do an eighth season after that. But to our minds, we have always written with the idea we could end this season a certain way so that it would make it a satisfactory [conclusion to the] series."
"The Good Wife" airs on Sundays at 9 p.m. on CBS.
