‘The Good Wife’ Renewed for Season 8 — Robert and Michelle King Leaving | TVLine 

creators Robert and Michelle King — renewal or not.

Should CBS pick up the legal drama for an eighth season, the Kings — who have long said that they had a seven-season plan for the series — will not be back as showrunners.

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“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 tells me. “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.

“But we don’t own it,” he adds. “But we understand completely  CBS’ interest in it.”

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At the Television Critics Assoc. winter press tour Tuesday in Pasadena, new CBS president Glenn Geller confirmed the Kings’ imminent exit, and noted that the show has a “deep bench” of producers that could fill the showrunner void. Of course,

for a Season 8. “We haven’t made any determination,” the exec said when asked about a pickup. “It’s just January, so we have to determine if there will be another season or not.”

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What do you think? Is this a recipe for certain disaster? Or could a little new blood reenergize the show?

Wonder if next season’s Good Wife is going to be its last.

Well, they have been showing for over a year they CLEARLY don’t know what to do with it anymore, so whatever.

They need a baddy like Mike Colter the drug dealer. Nobody is a baddy. Everybody is being civil.

(To be clear, everyone, Lemond Bishop is the drug dealer; Mike Colter is the actor.)

Uh oh. I don’t think anyone but the Kings can run this show. Even they make a misstep every now and then, but they’re the only ones who really understand what their characters would and wouldn’t do. New showrunners almost always change what made a show good in the first place. Whether it’s Community or Castle, it’s really never the same. It’s like Gramma’s apple pie: even if someone has the recipe, it’s just not the same if someone else makes it.

It makes sense that the Kings fulfill their promise that they only wanted The Good Wife to run for 7 years.So i’m thinking they have plans to put a definite end to their 7 years in this season’s final episode but leave the door open for whoever runs the show next season to pick up where they left off.So i’m thinking the Kings have known what the final scene of this season will be for a while because they might have thought this season was the last one.

If the Kings go, the show should go too. I hate when shows stay on TV for far longer than creatively intended. The Kings always said this show was meant to be a seven year show and creatively, I think it’s run its course. Put it out to pasture before we get a disappointing ending.

The show might actually be better without them. They’re running it into the ground.

They should respect the showrunners’ interests and end the show on their terms. I love this show, but I want it to end on a high-note and with the perfect and intended ending.

Mmmm. I loved the show, still like it a lot but I don’t want it to end this year. This season doesn’t have any kind of strong final-season-ish plots as far as I can tell.

Can I just say I have High Hopes now that the whole election thing has been put to rest. It was a ridiculous concept and ruined a perfectly good legal show. I don’t care about the politics at all. More Lawyering.

I’m not sure I want to see a “Good Wife” without the Kings behind it. Granted, this current season is nowhere close to where it was at its peak (season five), but I’m not sure it would get any better with someone else at the helm. I’m also curious because I think the cast (specifically Julianna Margulies) respects the hell out of the Kings and I’m not certain they’d stick around without them as well.

So they’re poisoning the well by putting it out there that they’re done and they have a series conclusion that will be filmed and if CBS wants to work around that without them they can? LOL. How nice of them.

Season 7 ending: Alicia decides to run as Hillary’s running mate.

Season 8: Alicia defends Hillary at her trial for corruption.

Hopefully Alicia will finally divorce Peter, that’s how I imagine they envisioned the finale, I mean, she needs to be happy once and for all!

Lost interest got to far off original storyline, don’t really care who is sleeping with who?

Please do the kind thing and put this show out of its misery. Sunday’s episode, Iowa, was painful. Don’t let this show end with a Dexter moment.

It does need some new thinking, I think. Bringing in Ruth, Eli in a closet. Disjointed Alicia is a lawyer, and that part is good, but she needs to get back to the group – with new lawyer in tow. Peter/Alicia divorce – at some points she’s got to get out of this relationship which gives her little. Let her have a man, who’s helpful. She can still be a work in progress.

I was done with this show after they let personal issues with actors dictate the writing

Ditto. Always a mistake to allow actors interfere in the writing/direction of story. The mistakes with Kalinda and Alicia will haunt this show forever, even after it is closed.

CBS is going to milk this show for all it is worth until the ratings tank. Count on a season 8.

End it then. Look at Gilmore Girls season 7 without ASP and Daniel Palladino. It wasn’t the same.

That was my exact same thought when I read this; GG’s final season was a shell of the previous six.

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Who knows. If TGW and Madam Sec. both get canceled (I hope that they get canceled). That might save CSIC.

The titles of the season’s episodes indicate they want it to be the last season.

The kings have only written the premiere episode. I think it’s pretty clear how much they care about the final season of their show

This could be a good thing or it could be disastrous, if Castle, Gilmore Girls, etc., are any indication.

On the one hand, I don’t know if it’s a good idea for the show to continue without them. But on the other hand, I’m really not ready for this show to go. It’s still better than a lot of television out there and I still love the show despite the behind-the-scenes drama rumors, flaws and all.

Ridiculous to think the show couldn’t continue without the Kings. Walking Dead has done many terrific seasons without their original showrunner. I’ve been underwhelmed by the Kings’ ideas recently anyway.

Just end it by Alicia leaving Peter for good right after he wins (or lose) the election. Considering the whole point of the show has been Alicia being the good wife for staying with her cheating husband, leaving Peter will finally make her happy and since both her children will be in college by then, she really doesn’t have to stay and pretend to be his wife anymore. I hope they just end. Julianna can star in another lawyer show in a couple years. She’s a multi Emmy award winner so she can get any show she wants.

I believe J.M. is now having problems with C.B.(Diane Lockhart). They no longer do scenes together, just like Kalinda, and that’s to bad.

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