CBS Will Air Season 1 of "The Good Fight" Starting Next Month
by Erik Pedersen
May 29, 2019


CBS said today that it will air the entire first season of "The Good Fight" starting on June 16.

"The Good Wife" spin-off starring Christine Baranski from creators Robert and Michelle King had been available only on the CBS All Access SVOD service.




It will mark the time a CBS All Access show has aired on the broadcast network since the "Star Trek: Discovery" premiere in September 2017.

There had been a lot of interest in "The Good Fight" running on CBS, which aired "The Good Wife", and CBS Corp acting CEO Joe Ianniello broke the news during the shareholder meeting this morning.




There will be bleeping when the first two episodes air back-to-back starting at 9 p.m. that Sunday, with Episodes 3 and 4 bowing in the same slot the following week. The series then will shift to the 10 p.m. Sunday slot starting with Episode 5.

CBS noted that those first four episodes will air within the Emmy nomination voting period.




“For three seasons, The Good Fight has been a big success for CBS All Access,” said Kelly Kahl, President of Entertainment at CBS.

“We’re excited to provide our network audience the opportunity to catch up with characters they first fell in love with on The Good Wife, as well as introduce new viewers to this outstanding, critically acclaimed drama.”

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How The Good Fight toned down its sex scenes and eliminated profanity for broadcast on CBS (https://www.vulture.com/2019/06/the-good-fight-cbs-network-tv-edit.html)

Co-creator Robert King says he was given three to four days to edit each episode, and they were done via Skype since the editors were in Los Angeles while he and wife/co-creator Michelle King live in New York. "It was very difficult," says Robert King. "CBS was sympathetic because the point was the controversial language, you know? It wasn’t secondary, it was really the point. So we were surprised that we were able to get some language that is intended to be offensive. And then, with regards to the “****ing,” a lot of that was doing audio dropouts. Whenever someone says 'f*cking' on Survivor, there’s an audio dropout, not a bleep, and a weird digital smear over a mouth." He adds: "You need the power of all those nasty things being said. And by the way, some of the nastiness is in bad, racist jokes of online people. The language isn’t always as offensive as the full context of the sentence, and that was allowed to stay intact."