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JamesG · 05-27-2022, 03:44 PM

"The Good Fight" To End with Season 6 Tackling Roe v. Wade & Civil War; EPs Talk Possible Cast Returns; Premiere Date Set
by Nellie Andreeva
May 27, 2022

The upcoming sixth season of "The Good Fight" will be the last for the acclaimed series, which helped launch Paramount+ predecessor CBS All Access as its first original series.

Production is currently underway in New York City on Season 6, which will premiere September 8. This wraps a 13-season run for Robert and Michelle King, creators and executive producers of "The Good Wife", which aired on CBS for seven seasons, and co-creators/executive producers of the spin-off.

As usual, "The Good Fight" will be topical and reflect current events in Season 6, which has Diane (Christine Baranski) feeling like she’s going crazy, struggling with an uneasy sense of déjà vu, with everything from Roe v. Wade, to voting rights, to Cold War aggressions returning.

Meanwhile, the lawyers of Reddick & Associates wonder if the violence that they see all around them points to an impending civil war.

“What we thought that would be fun in a last season is there a déjà vu quality in returning to the greatest hits, not just Carrie Preston playing Elsbeth Tascioni and Alan Cumming playing Eli Gold but also some of the favorite hits of plot points,” Robert King said.

“Maybe this sounds like we’re recycling but we want Diane to have a sense, haven’t I done this before? haven’t I done that before? That just felt like a way to be kind of meta and reflect what we thought was going on with liberals and progressives around in a sense that we thought these fights were done. And we were on a glide slope towards justice and Shangri-La basically. It’s comically too.”

The Kings famously had to tweak the first episode of "The Good Fight" after Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential election filming a new scene of Diane looking stunned by the result. A Supreme Court decision on an effort to overturn Roe v. Wade could come in late June or early July, and "The Good Fight" would be able to reflect that.

“We’re still going to be shooting in June and we’re still doing posts in June, July and August,” Robert King said. “So that is within our ability, and we have areas where we can massage and return to them, not only by reshooting more, because this has been a very scattershot year of picking up this and picking up that because of Covid and other problems, trying to get people to shoot at the same time, so it will give us more leeway to do what we did in that very first episode of The Good Fight.”

https://deadline.com/2022/05/the-goo...qa-1235032855/

TMC · 09-01-2022, 09:15 PM

Christine Baranski says "my heart dropped" learning The Good Fight was ending, says Robert and Michelle King feared cancelation.

05-27-2022, 03:44 PM	#1
JamesG Freakshow Moderator Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 01, 2008 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 57,045	"The Good Fight" To End with Season 6 *"The Good Fight" To End with Season 6 Tackling Roe v. Wade & Civil War; EPs Talk Possible Cast Returns; Premiere Date Set* by Nellie Andreeva May 27, 2022 The upcoming sixth season of "The Good Fight" will be the last for the acclaimed series, which helped launch Paramount+ predecessor CBS All Access as its first original series. Production is currently underway in New York City on Season 6, which will premiere September 8. This wraps a 13-season run for Robert and Michelle King, creators and executive producers of "The Good Wife", which aired on CBS for seven seasons, and co-creators/executive producers of the spin-off. As usual, "The Good Fight" will be topical and reflect current events in Season 6, which has Diane (Christine Baranski) feeling like she’s going crazy, struggling with an uneasy sense of déjà vu, with everything from Roe v. Wade, to voting rights, to Cold War aggressions returning. Meanwhile, the lawyers of Reddick & Associates wonder if the violence that they see all around them points to an impending civil war. “What we thought that would be fun in a last season is there a déjà vu quality in returning to the greatest hits, not just Carrie Preston playing Elsbeth Tascioni and Alan Cumming playing Eli Gold but also some of the favorite hits of plot points,” Robert King said. “Maybe this sounds like we’re recycling but we want Diane to have a sense, haven’t I done this before? haven’t I done that before? That just felt like a way to be kind of meta and reflect what we thought was going on with liberals and progressives around in a sense that we thought these fights were done. And we were on a glide slope towards justice and Shangri-La basically. It’s comically too.” The Kings famously had to tweak the first episode of "The Good Fight" after Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential election filming a new scene of Diane looking stunned by the result. A Supreme Court decision on an effort to overturn Roe v. Wade could come in late June or early July, and "The Good Fight" would be able to reflect that. “We’re still going to be shooting in June and we’re still doing posts in June, July and August,” Robert King said. “So that is within our ability, and we have areas where we can massage and return to them, not only by reshooting more, because this has been a very scattershot year of picking up this and picking up that because of Covid and other problems, trying to get people to shoot at the same time, so it will give us more leeway to do what we did in that very first episode of The Good Fight.” https://deadline.com/2022/05/the-goo...qa-1235032855/

09-01-2022, 09:15 PM	#2
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,459	Christine Baranski says "my heart dropped" learning The Good Fight was ending, says Robert and Michelle King feared cancelation.