The Good Wife and its spin-offs The Good Fight and Elsbeth are, respectively, American legal, political, and police procedural television series produced by CBS Studios and created by Robert and Michelle King. The Good Wife and Elsbeth were produced for the CBS broadcast network, while The Good Fight was produced for CBS' sibling streaming service Paramount+.
The Good Wife follows the political, professional, and personal life of Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), a political "good wife" who is thrust back into the workplace after over a decade after her husband, Peter Florrick (Chris Noth), a local Chicago politician, is arrested on corruption charges following a highly publicized sex scandal. The Good Fight follows Alicia's former colleagues Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) and Lucca Quinn (Cush Jumbo) contending with political and legal challenges in a new political environment as they continue their careers at a left-wing, African AmericanâÂÂowned law firm, while Elsbeth follows Alicia's and Diane's former legal rival Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston) as she leaves lawyering behind to become a consultant detective, modelling herself after Columbo.