Why the Good Fight creators are glad they moved from CBS to streaming

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Like other big deal TV creators, Robert and Michelle King are thriving in the streaming era. The duo behind the long-running CBS show The Good Wife is making two shows for Paramount+, with more on the way. As The Good Fight - a Good Wife spinoff - enters its sixth and final season, Recode’s Peter Kafka talks to the Kings about the move from broadcast to streaming, and why they spend a lot of time tweaking the Trump administration, but less talking about the pandemic. Plus: a very costly Bitcoin miscalculation. Featuring: Michelle & Robert King (@RKing618), TV Writers & Show Runners Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.3	This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka.
1:07.5	That is me, and today I'm talking to Robert and Michelle King, who are a very big deal. TV creators at a time when TV is in flux. They're best known for The Good Wife, which was a long-running show on CBS. Now they do most, or I think it may be all of their work in streaming. They've got two shows on Paramount Plus, more on the way. One of their shows, The Good Fight, starts at sixth and final season this fall.
1:28.9	Welcome, Michelle and Robert.
1:30.7	Thank you. Good. Thanks, Peter. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming on. I'm so flustered
1:35.7	because I've been watching your stuff for a long time. I was telling you guys, I think I first
1:39.8	started watching The Good Wife. I discovered it on flights back from California on Virgin America.
1:48.0	A lot of people find it that way. Yeah, I was wondering about that. I want to talk to you about
1:52.6	that show and your history, but let's start with the show that's coming to a conclusion right now,
1:58.7	the sixth season of the Good Fight, which is related to the Good
2:01.3	wife. If someone hasn't seen either of those shows, do they have to go back and watch
2:06.0	hundreds of hours of programming before they can enjoy the sixth and final season of the Good Fight?
2:11.7	I want to say yes, just to make them do it. But the actual answer is no, they do not.
2:18.4	They're different animals completely.
2:20.6	The Good Wife was a legal drama set in Chicago with real world illusions and references.
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