I know that Diane, Lucca, and Sarah will be part of the main cast. However I wonder if other good wife characters will return in a guest capacity.
shareJulianna, Carrie Preston and Jess Weixler are all open to it...Archie, not so much? ;-)
http://m.eonline.com/news/802360/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-good-wife-spinoff
I hope Cary and Eli will appear
shareYessss
I would love to see Carrie Preston return.
I would also love to see Martha Plimpton, Mamie Gummer and especially Parker Posey, since Marissa is going to be a bigger role, it'd be fun to see Posey return as her mother.
Also Jeffrey Tambor and some of the other judges, to cement this version of Chicago.
I would love for alicia and diane to get proper closure. It would be nice to see robin come back after her sudden disappearance.
shareRobin, Eli and Vanessa, so many judges, elsbeth!!! It would be nice to see Cary and maybe Alicia but it's not necessary. I'd like to see David Lee, and Clarke hayden too.
shareSince it says on its IMDB page that it's about Diane at 'Stern, Lockheart and Gardner' I would like to see Will back. I'm not sure how they would pull it of, but any chance of him back on my tv would be welcome.
shareCary, Eli and definitely Kalinda! 😃
Maybe some of the judges, the counter lawyers or co-lawyers like Elsbeth or Mamie and why not Mr. Big? 😉
But PLEASE let it become a spin-off in its own right! No sequel to the TGW necessary - which I loved so much, but which is over & out. Period.
As much as this could well be a stand alone show, it's really going to have to take off to not be cancelled.
While the existing characters legacy will resonate with TGW viewers, everything is going to be gauged against its peak despite this being a new show in its own right.
I'm hopeful it works as I like the characters that are in the new show but I've a feeling it could see a season or two before everyone realises why TGW was cancelled, it hasn't hit the massive heights TGW did and then it fizzles out.
Hopefully not though but I've seen enough reasonable shows cancelled for simply not being the next Friends / LA Law immediately.
Besides Diane, Lucca and Marissa, we will see again the following TGW characters in the spin off:
 David Lee (Zach Grenier)
 Howard Lyman (Jerry Adler)
 Julius Cain (Michael Boatman)
 Kurt McVeigh (Gary Cole)
 Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston)
 Judge Charles Abernathy (Denis O’Hare)
 Neil Gross (John Benjamin Hickey)
 Viola Walsh (Rita Wilson)
 Judge Suzanne Morris (Jane Alexander)
 Mike Kresteva (Matthew Perry)
Those are the one's I read about ...
Best wishes,
janar
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