Here’s a thought.  Do you think that the networks are going to be able to keep up with cable in regards to women led shows?  Think about it.  The women who lead the cable shows like Damages, In Plain Sight, The Closer, Weeds, Nurse Jackie and Saving Grace are so interesting and different and network TV women are, well, usually kind of boring.

So my question is, is there a new divide between the cable women and the network women?

The reason I ask this question is that I have been reading about the new Julianna Margulies show The Good Wife.  (Can I say how much I HATE the title.)  Margulies plays the humiliated wife of a jailed philandering politician — Mr. Big himself, Chris Noth — who needs to go back to work to support her kids.  Sounds good, but I worry that it will fall into the category of needing to be everything to everybody and will have no voice.  I will definitely watch it especially because of the awesome supporting cast including Noth, Christine Baranski and the awesome Archie Panjabi who played Parminder Nagra’s sister in Bend it Like Beckham.

I watched Margulies play a kick ass lawyer in the short lived Canterbury’s Law and I hope The Good Wife has some grit.  I guess that’s what I’m saying.  The cable women have grit, the network women have gloss.

I prefer grit.

The Good Wife: First Impression (Variety)

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