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Chris Noth may be known to millions of "Sex and the City" fans as Mr. Big, but to Julianna Margulies that only makes him a bigger target.

For Julianna Margulies, it was all about the uncertainty, and the fear, and the unknown.

The first scene of The Good Wife is something you've seen before: Alicia Florrick stands stock-still next to her husband Peter as he's resigning the office of state's attorney in a sex and influence-peddling scandal.

Herc's Seen CBS' Much-Lauded Lawyer Drama THE GOOD WIFE!! I am - " Hercules!! A CBS drama from screenwriter Robert King and Michelle King about the wife of a disgraced Illinois state's attorney, "The Good Wife" uses scandal-haunted former New York governor Elliot Spitzer's hot lawyer wife Silda as a jumping-off point.

It's night two of "Dancing With the Stars" -- and we're already pooped. Watching washed-up celebrities trip the lights fantastic is a fine summer diversion, but it's not worthy of the fall schedule.

U.S. actress Julianna Margulies returned to network television Tuesday night in the new CBS drama, "The Good Wife." The series is about a woman who goes back to work as a lawyer after her husband, played by Chris Noth, is imprisoned following a high-profile political scandal.

There's no sure-fire path to TV success, but giving a good actress good material is an awfully good place to start.

Beginning Sept. 22, the 9 p.m. hour will be the setting for two battling case-of-the-week legal procedurals on television.

Julianna Margulies has appeared on television only sporadically since she left "ER" nearly a decade ago, and for this viewer absence did not make the heart grow fonder.

Cameras zoom in on a humbled politician reading a prepared statement about his failures as a public servant and husband.

The notable exception is the terrific new legal drama, The Good Wife , starring ER 's Julianna Margulies, back in the TV courtroom after last year's summarily dismissed Canterbury's Law.

CBS's The Good Wife is easily the most topical fall drama. Julianna Margulies stars as a wife and mother who returns to work as a lawyer after her politician husband falls from grace in a public sex and ethics scandal.

CBS sure knows how to treat reporters. At today's Television Critics Association panels, the network treated us to free Skittles, condoms, ice cream sundaes and, oh yeah, some stellar talent as well.

Julianna Margulies slapped Chris Noth three times for the scene in the pilot in which "The Good Wife" goes bad.

She plays the title character in The Good Wife , which follows the vicissitudes of the wife and family of a prosecutor imprisoned after a sex and money scandal.

The entry titled "Fall TV preview: 'The Good Wife'." Categories Fall TV preview: 'The Good Wife' By Dale Roe Friday, July 31, 2009, 01:56 PM The screeners for the fall television season - such as it is - have started rolling in.

It will be interesting, come fall, to see how Julianna Margulies does in her new CBS series, "The Good Wife," about a woman whose husband just got busted in a political corruption and sex scandal case.