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Earlier this year we announced that Matt Czuchry (Logan Huntzberger on Gilmore Girls) had been cast in a CBS pilot, The Good Wife. It now looks like that pilot was picked up for the Fall season.
Unlike Lauren Graham’s ABC pilot, which was not picked up for a full season after its critic screening, Czuchry’s The Good Wife got the green light.
The Good Wife centers on a politician’s wife (Julianna Margulies of ER) who becomes a junior associate at a top law firm. Matt Czuchry will play the other first-year associate at the firm, landing what sounds like one of the lead roles. He’s a Harvard grad, unlike his Yale counterpart on Gilmore Girls.
Update: here is the official show description from CBS:
The Good Wife is a drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies as a wife and mother who must assume full responsibility for her family and re-enter the workforce after her husband’s very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. Pushing aside the betrayal and crushing public humiliation caused by her husband Peter (Chris Noth), Alicia Florrick (Margulies) starts over by pursuing her original career as a defense attorney. As a junior associate at a prestigious Chicago law firm, she joins her longtime friend, former law school classmate and firm partner Will Gardner (Josh Charles), who is interested to see how Alicia will perform after 13 years out of the courtroom. Alicia is grateful the firm’s top litigator, Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski), offers to mentor her but discovers the offer has conditions and realizes she’s going to need to succeed on her own merit. Alicia’s main competition among the firm’s 20-something new recruits is Cary (Matt Czuchry), a recent Harvard grad who is affable on the surface, but will use any means to ensure that he, not Alicia, secures the one full-time associate position that’s available. Fortunately, Alicia finds an ally in Kalinda (Archie Panjabi), the firm’s tough in-house investigator. Gaining confidence every day, Alicia transforms herself from embarrassed politician’s scorned wife to resilient career woman, especially for the sake of providing a stable home for her children, 14-year-old Zach (Graham Phillips) and 13-year-old Grace (Makenzie Vega). For the first time in years, Alicia trades in her identity as the “good wife” and takes charge of her own destiny. Tony Scott, Ridley Scott, Robert King, Michelle King, Dee Johnson and David Zucker are the executive producers for CBS Television Studios.
The Good Wife will air on the 2009-2010 Primetime Schedule on CBS on Tuesday’s at 10pm.
And a Happy Birthday to Matt, who celebrates his birthday on May 20th.
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I’ve tried to find it, no luck. It was just the scene where he talks to Julianna Margulies but it was extended. He congratulates her on being brave and coming back the business. He then says his mom is doing the same. You see she was not happy with the implication she was old.
NTV (Newfoundland Television) Just showed an exclusive sneak peek. It was a Matt scene. I think the show is going to be good.
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His sweater confuses me.
He’s wearing the same one in the photoshoot for the Season 6 DVDs…
I’m a fan of his. If you have watched him in things other then Gilmore Girls, you see that he can play a wide variety of things, rich and snobby or dorky and sad. I hope the show does well.
I’m not a big fan of MC but I can’t wait to see him in something different. Because it was more Logan I didn’t like actually…
Plus, anything with Julianna Margulies is probably worth watching.
I’ll check it out. I’m a fan of Matt Czuchry, so we’ll see what the show has to offer. Oh, Happy Birthday to Matt, he’s 32 today.
Not hard on the eye at all no
Its going to air Tuesday’s at 10 PM on CBS
hmmm – wondering if his character will be more likeable than logans – that said it is kind of fun to love to hate him anyway lol. and not to hard on the eye either.
Well, it sounds good so far. I love the acting skills Matt has and I’ll be looking forward to this, but I guess I’ll have to wait. Shows take longer to get to Argentina.