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The Good Fight star Christine Baranski, Sex and the City alumna Cynthia Nixon, Amanda Peet (The Romanoffs) and Morgan Spector (The Plot Against America) will lead the cast of Julian Fellowes’ The Gilded Age drama series at HBO. The project, which moved from NBC to HBO earlier this year, is a co-production between HBO…

It's been another crazy day as we head toward the upfronts next week, with the networks deep in a frenzy of pickups, renewals (nice to see you again Madam Secretary) and cancellations. However, we put those slings and arrows in the background for now as we return with another edition of Deadline’s TV Talk…

The upcoming season of The Good Fight tackled the raging storm that is Donald Trump America, creators told TV critics at TCA. “This season is about finding out what the storm is…how the guard rails are coming off our institutions now” and “what does the resistance look like,” Robert King explained. In November, Masters…

The moment in The Good Wife finale when Christine Baranski's Diane Lockhart slapped Julianna Margulies' character Alicia Florrick in the face not only marked the end of seven seasons of the legal drama, but it also began TV, film and Broadway legend Baranski's move from supporting role to lead in the spin-off The Good…

EXCLUSIVE: Five weeks before the Fancy Nancy series premiere, Disney Junior has ordered second season of the toon based on the children’s books by Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser. The family comedy, which debuts July 13, centers on Nancy (Mia Sinclair Jenness), a high-spirited 6-year-old whose zest and…

Each episode of CBS All Access series The Good Fight‘s Season 2 will be named for how many days Donald Trump has been President of the United States. Like a hostage crisis, Robert King explained to Deadline. Which, he said, speaks very much to the state of mind of Christine Baranski's character  Diane, who will…

Considering the fact that STX’s raunchy broad comedy Bad Moms became a surprise summer hit in 2016, it should come as no shock that a sequel would be ordered quickly. Turnaround on the new holiday-themed follow-up, A Bad Mom’s Christmas, was especially fast as STX has it in theaters starting today, just 15 months…

Christine Baranski has officially signed on to reprise her role as Tanya in Universal’s Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, the forthcoming sequel to the 2008 ABBA-themed romance musical Mamma Mia, starring Meryl Streep. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel scribe Ol Parker wrote the screenplay and will direct the film, which is…

Susan Sarandon, Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines and Peter Gallagher are joining STXfilms‘ comedy sequel A Bad Moms Christmas. The three actresses are playing the moms of the bad moms — Sarandon will play Kathryn Hahn’s character’s mom, Baranski for Mila Kunis and Hines for Kristen Bell as the clash of the female…

It's been more than nine months since The Good Wife came to an end after seven award-winning seasons on CBS. But fear not fans, the drought is over and The Good Fight is almost here. Debuting its pilot February 19 on both CBS and CBS All Access before making permanent port on the streaming service, the Christine Barans…

Donald Trump has breathed new life into CBS All Access’ The Good Fight, the Good Wife spinoff series bowing next month, creator Robert King and star Christine Baranski told TV critics at TCA today. “What was good, the world changed on us,” King said. “The Good Wife was a little bit about the Obama years. This gives…

UPDATED: During CBS’ upfront presentation, CBS Corp. chairman Leslie Moonves confirmed a straight-to-series order to a Good Wife spinoff project, starring The Good Wife's Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo, to premiere in spring 2017 on CBS All Access. It will be CBS' fledgling SVOD platform’s second original…