The Americans and The Millers star Margo Martindale has joined the cast of The Good Wife in a recurring role for its upcoming seventh season. She will play Willa Eastman, a top campaign operative responsible for past successes by underdog presidential candidates in Iowa who hides her intelligence and cunning 
CBS is continuing the cast shake-up on The Good Wife. Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Supernatural) has boarded the legal drama as a series regular for its upcoming seventh season and will be something of a replacement for Archie Panjabi, who exited the show last season. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who is currently starring on the second season of CBS' Halle Berry starrer Extant, will play Alex, a calm, experienced hourly investigator whom Alicia (Julianna Margulies) hires for her fledgling law firm. 
The Good Wife is losing yet another main cast member. Matthew Goode, who has played Finn Polmar on the CBS series since the show's fifth season, is exiting the show ahead of its just ordered seventh season. While he will not be back as a series regular, the door is being left open for the Downton Abbey alum to return as a guest star. 
The Good Wife, NCIS: Los Angeles and Extant have firmly established themselves as ratings hits here in the UK, with the three series pulling in big ratings for their respective broadcasters. In addition, a wealth of other series distributed by CBSSI, such as NCIS, Scorpion and Elementary, also continue to draw big ratings in the UK. The sixth season of CBS' hit drama series The Good Wife will receive its UK premiere on More4 on Thursday January 29th at 9pm, it has been announced 
Archie Panjabi is to exit CBS' 'The Good Wife' at the end of the current season to star in a drama pilot for 20th Century Fox Television. 
Frasier's David Hyde Pierce has joined the cast of 'The Good Wife' in a major recurring role, which will see him play a cable news legal commentator who decides to run for public office. 