CBS网上频道CBS All Access的《傲骨贤妻 The Good Wife》衍生剧《傲骨之战 The Good Fight》,现确定将在美国时间2月19日首播。新闻指CBS亦会在同日于电视网播出首播集,然后开始每周在CBS All Access放出新集。
故事设定在原剧剧终一年后,由Christine Baranski(角色Diane Lockhart)和Cush Jumbo(角色Lucca Quinn)领衔主演,Sarah Steele则饰演Marissa Gold,她从Diane的助理做起,发现自己对做调查感兴趣。所以这个角色将延续《傲骨贤妻》里Kalinda和Robyn的角色风格。《傲骨之战》讲述一个巨大的金融骗局破坏了年轻律师Maia(Rose Leslie饰)的前途,也令她教母兼导师Diane的储蓄被清,她被逼离开「Lockhart & Lee」,并加入Lucca Quinn的一间芝加哥著名事务所。
Justin Bartha饰演常规角色Colin,他是州检察长办公室的新星,亦是芝加哥最灸手可热的钻石王老五。当他在法庭上与Lucca Quinn交锋后,二人起了情愫。Helene Yorke饰演Maia的律师女友Amy,她与Maia有稳定的关系,Amy自己已从法学院毕业了一段时间。
Paul Guilfoyle饰演Maia的父亲Henry,一个很成功的财务顾问,十分富有并受人喜爱。Bernadette Peters饰演Lenore,Maia的母亲,她原本是工人阶级背景,不过她天生对金融十分有头脑。她通过Henry家族的私人投资公司,增长了他的财富,这令到他们一家三口成了芝加哥非官方下的「第一家庭」。
Gary Cole继续饰演的Diane丈夫Kurt McVeigh,以及母剧演员Zach Grenier与Jerry Adler亦将在衍生剧中以客串型式继续饰演David Lee及Howard Lyman。另外有Erica Tazel加盟,但未有她的角色描述。
Carrie Preston亦客串演出,她将继续饰演母剧《傲骨贤妻》的角色:性格古怪但聪明的律师Elsbeth Tascioni。Carrie Preston凭这角色赢得过艾美的客串女演员奖。
Shetland returns for a new thrilling six-part tale with Douglas Henshall reprising his role as DI Jimmy Perez alongside series favourites Alison O’Donnell, Steven Robertson, Mark Bonnar, Erin Armstrong, Anne Kidd and Lewis Howden. Series 6 centres on the doorstep murder of a prominent local figure, a case which strikes at the heart of the Shetland Isles and its people. As Perez and his team uncover a kaleidoscope of motives for the murder, their investigation soon takes a shockingly sinister turn.
Tosh suspects something is seriously wrong when her friend, Annie Bett, goes missing. Calder has no time to recover from a life-threatening ordeal of her own, as together they set out in search of Annie and her young son, Noah.
Award-winning crime writer Ann Cleeves' bestselling detective series returns for a fifth season as DI Jimmy Perez faces a compelling new single mystery. A human hand washes up on a Shetland beach. A few hours later, more body parts are discovered in a hold-all that has been dumped at sea. The victim is identified as a young Nigerian man, spotted in Lerwick a few days before. What was he doing on the islands? In investigating his murder, DI Perez becomes involved in the search for a vulnerable young woman, leading him to uncover a complex network of human trafficking across Scotland’s remote rural communities.