Media Thread For Elsbeth

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"We Wanted To Make Something That Would Make Everybody's Hearts Melt": 'Elsbeth's Carrie Preston on Filming That Rom-Com Valentine's Day Episode
By Arezou Amin   Feb 15, 2025
https://collider.com/elsbeth-season-2-episode-11-carrie-preston/ 

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COLLIDER: This episode of Elsbeth has got an interesting setup. It kind of plays on that Portal installation that was in New York last year, and it changed the pace of the investigation this time around. How was it from your point of view in filming this remote investigation, so to speak?
CARRIE PRESTON: It was really challenging technically, but really fulfilling creatively. We had Robert King, who's the creator of the show, directing, so that was really fun because we knew we were in great hands with him. He's always like a kid in the candy store whenever he directs. He just relishes it. He spends a lot of time in the writers’ room, so it's so fun when he gets to actually be boots on the ground. So, he had all these wonderful ideas about how to shoot it and what to do with the technical challenges.

Then I had Ioan Gruffudd, who was incredible, who was coming in to play this new little love interest. We had to shoot those scenes at the Portal on two totally different days. We had to do all of the Scotland stuff first, and then he and I would rehearse in front of [what] was basically like a big, giant picture frame the size of what the Portal is. He would just be standing in it, or sometimes it would be a green screen plug in there, depending on what the shot was going to be. So he and I would rehearse so that we got really comfortable with what the other one was going to do, because once rehearsal was done, then we had to act with just the camera with the voice of whoever was doing the scene behind the camera. So I couldn't see him whenever I was actually finally doing the scenes with him, but I had the memory of what we had just rehearsed. So we did all the Scotland stuff first, and then it was a week before we did my side, but it was kind of great because those scenes then kind of percolated in my mind, so by the time we got to my side of it, I felt like I got a little second chance at the scenes, which you don't usually get on TV.
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I want to talk about working with Ioan Gruffudd as this new love interest for Elsbeth. You did get to work with him prior to him coming to New York to see her. Was that done in that order, so you had the time to build up that dynamic prior to shooting their actual face-to-face meeting?
PRESTON: Yes. Thankfully, the scheduling worked to our advantage in that we did his, the Scotland stuff, first, earlier in the schedule, like almost at the beginning of the schedule, and then my stuff with him, including meeting him in person, was towards the end of the schedule. So that did help us this time. You can tell that our relationship was building. Sometimes, we have to start with the last thing first, and that's always very hard to do, especially for the guest stars because they've never been on the show before and they're playing a character they've never played. I've been playing this character for 15 years, so it's not an even playing ground. But in this case, we did get to build it together.

It really did come through because, by the time I got to the end of the episode, I was giggling like I was watching a rom-com.
PRESTON: Yay! It was a rom-com episode.
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We've never seen Elsbeth in this kind of mutually flirty space before. A lot of firemen think she's cute, but it's never been a reciprocal thing. Then she's got this friendship-turned-something-more with this charming musician/fireman. What was it like getting to play this side of the character, and how did you make it uniquely Elsbeth in your process?
PRESTON: I think the last time we saw her embroiled in any kind of romance was during The Good Wife, when she had the spark with Josh Perotti, who was played by Kyle MacLachlan. We were guests and visitors in that universe, so it had a certain tone to it. Then with this, we really wanted to honor the tone of our show, but also maybe add—or at least I did—that this feels a little more like a more serious connection and not just a kind of work spar that turns into a one-night stand. So I think, because our show is really making Elsbeth more three-dimensional, that made sense. Also, it's the Valentine's Day episode, so we knew that we wanted to make something that would make everybody's hearts melt a little bit, and so I hope that we accomplished that.

I'm a big romance person, and I can say yes, absolutely. I'm hoping he comes back.
PRESTON: [Laughs] Even the crew was like, “Aww!” They were standing around the monitor and going, “Aww,” rooting for the two of them.

Edited Sunday at 03:49 PM by tv echo

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WHILE INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF A WEALTHY REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER, ELSBETH IS LED TO THE LAST PERSON TO SEE HIM ALIVE, ON “ELSBETH,” THURSDAY, FEB. 27
02/18/2025
https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/elsbeth/releases/?view=111009-while-investigating-the-death-of-a-wealthy-real-estate-developer-elsbeth-is-led-to-the-last-person-to-see-him-alive-on-elsbeth-thursday-feb-27

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Jordana Brewster Guest Stars as Chloe, an Elegant Lifestyle Consultant

“Tearjerker” – While investigating the death of a wealthy real estate developer, Elsbeth is led to the last person to see him alive, a lifestyle consultant named Chloe (Jordana Brewster) who is usually found on the arms of residents of New York City’s Billionaires’ Row, on the CBS Original series ELSBETH, Thursday, Feb. 27 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs)*.

Preview pics:
https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/elsbeth/photos?episode=25414 

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‘Elsbeth’ Casts Mary Louise Parker and David Alan Grier as Guest Stars (EXCLUSIVE)
By Ethan Shanfeld   Feb 18, 2025
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/elsbeth-casts-mary-louise-parker-david-alan-grier-guest-stars-1236305303/ 

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Mary Louise Parker and David Alan Grier have been tapped as guest stars of Season 2 of CBS’ “Elsbeth,” the mystery spinoff of “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight” starring Carrie Preston as the de facto detective Elsbeth Tascioni.

Parker, best known for her star turn in Showtime’s “Weeds,” will play

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Freya, a decluttering guru with a minimalist lifestyle brand and a controlling personality. “When her husband threatens her perfect sense of balance, she murders him to keep the third in their throuple all to herself,” reads the logline.

Grier, who currently stars in the NBC sitcom “St. Denis Medical,” takes on the role of

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Arthur Greene Jr., the highly professional owner of a family mortuary that caters to the one percent. Per CBS, “Discretion is everything to Arthur, so when his conspiracy-minded nephew threatens to unearth the truth about a famous author’s botched funeral, he does what must be done to keep the secret buried.”

 

Edited Wednesday at 02:31 PM by tv echo

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TV procedurals up their game, with doctors on cruises and quirky single moms solving crimes
By Mark Kennedy   Feb 19, 2025
https://apnews.com/article/tv-procedurals-watson-doctor-odyssey-high-potential-elsbeth-matlock-77d1502b193df03c5cbebc99fe991934 

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Tolins’ own current take on the procedural is CBS’ “Elsbeth,” which takes the quirky character Elsbeth Tascioni from “The Good Wife” and plops her down in a “Columbo”-style police procedural.

Elsbeth, played by Carrie Preston, is a sleuth in bright colors and a bucket hat, blunt and unpredictable, playing off the guest star of the week. Tolins says the writers and camera crew try not to make her feel like the show’s lead, even though she’s the very title.
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“I said early on that I think the show works best when it feels like a CBS police procedural with Elsbeth thrown into it,” he says. “We talked about always keeping her sort of out of the center of the frame in wide shots.”
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Tolins, who leads the “Elsbeth” writing room, recently got some nice feedback about his elevated procedural skills. CBS did a focus group about the new season’s premiere episode, which starred — spoilers — Nathan Lane as the killer of an obnoxious operagoer.

“One of the women who saw it afterwards kept saying, ‘This is network? I’m going to have to watch more network television,’ which of course was very, very satisfying for all of us listening,” Tolins says.

Edited Wednesday at 02:39 PM by tv echo

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Renewed!

https://www.vitalthrills.com/cbs-renews-nine-additional-series-for-the-2025-2026-season/

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Elsbeth Offers Update on Her Romance With Angus — and When They Might See Each Other Again
By Matt Webb Mitovich   February 20, 2025 
https://tvline.com/recaps/elsbeth-angus-romance-update-season-2-episode-12-1235411871/ 

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Skip ahead one week later… and Elsbeth offered a quick update on her, Angus… and when they might see each other again.

Early in this week’s episode, Elsbeth invited Kaya, Teddy (and Roy), Captain Wagner, Det. Donnelly and Lt. Connor over to her place for dinner, saying, “It will help me get over my missing Angus.

“It was a whirlwind romance,” she sighed, bittersweetly, “but he had to go back to his life in Scotland. We’ll see each other again when the time is right.”

Edited Yest. at 01:13 PM by tv echo