Christine Baranski News

In honor of our show's scientific heroes, Big Bang theorists, I'm going to do a bit of an experiment with tonight's Big Bang Theory recap.

This one has cry-your-eyes-out written all over it. Hudson, whose mother, brother, and nephew were murdered last year, returns to Chicago to relive childhood Christmases.

Move over, F. Lee Bailey! For a junior associate, Alicia has one heck of a track record for winning every case she tries, and last night her winning streak continued unabated.

Is Sheldon finally going to experience a big bang in more than theory? That's at least what I'm hoping will happen when Christine Baranski reprises her Emmy-nominated role of Leonard's smarty-pants mother in a January episode of The Big Bang Theory .

What's your Halloween costume this year? "You know how all these tortured indie-rock guys always wanted to date the cheerleader? Well, this time, I'm going to be a cheerleader, because I'm one of those tortured indie girls, and my boyfriend is going to be the quarterback, and he's British, so he doesn't even know what that means." - Karen O - Tilda ...

Despite numerous reports picked up on the rumor patrol, it seems that the particularly juicy one suggesting that Scarlett Johanssen will be starring in the upcoming Broadyway production of Promises Promises is in fact just that: rumor.

REASON TO WATCH: Top-notch cast, and shot in NYC. WHAT TONIGHT'S ABOUT: Alicia Florrick must stand by in humiliation while her husband, Peter , the attorney general of Cook County, resigns from public office in the wake of financial and sexual misconduct; he denies the former but cops to the latter.

This fall, she trades comic barbs for legalese on The Good Wife, playing lawyer Diane Lockhart, threatened boss of Julianna Margulies.

ANDREA Reynolds Plunkett doesn't have nice things to say about Alan Dershowitz , the lawyer who helped her one-time boyfriend Claus von Bulow beat an attempted murder conviction, or about the movie based on his book about the case.

You knew it had to happen - a television series inspired by the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal and those of several other high-profile politicians.

You knew it had to happen - a television series inspired by the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal and those of several other high-profile politicians.

PASADENA, Calif.- Buffalo's Christine Baranski is one of the stars of one of the best new dramas of the fall, CBS' "The Good Wife." That's right, I said drama.

Christine Baranski may not be so proud to have Jennifer Aniston as a daughter. Baranski will play mom to Aniston's bailjumper in the romantic comedy "The Bounty Hunter," according to Variety.

Christine Baranski has joined the cast of Sony's "Bounty Hunter" comedy as Jennifer Aniston's mother.

Back in 2002, several of us on the BroadwayStars staff were fortunate to see Ms.