Madam Secretary Series Finale Recap: The State of the Union Is Strong

RELATED STORIES Did your invite to Stevie and Dmitri’s wedding get lost in the mail? Have no fear: We’ve gathered all of the highlights of Madam Secretary‘s series finale — which included the nuptials of the First Daughter and her soulmate — in a final (sniff!) recap. The episode, “Leaving the Station,” takes place nine months […]

Madam Secretary on the Bubble: Should CBS Keep It or Cut It?

By mid-May, the broadcast networks must make some tough calls as to which series will return for the 2018-19 TV season, and which… won’t. As that deadline draws near, TVLine is singling out a few “bubble” shows and sizing up their prospects — based in large part on creative strides (and stumbles) and future potential, but also […]

Madam Secretary's Keith Carradine Talks Dalton's Nicaragua Nightmare

Madam Secretary‘s President Dalton is known for being a man of action, a leader who swiftly gathers his cabinet’s counsel then moves forward with decisive action. So his hesitant approach to an international incident — which played out in Sunday’s episode — was something portrayer Keith Carradine hadn’t often encountered in five seasons of portraying […]

Madam Secretary EPs Discuss Elizabeth's Arrest (?!) in Episode 100

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Madam Secretary‘s fall finale.  After Sunday’s Madam Secretary, it’s never been more clear that Elizabeth McCord is the kind of person who’d make a great United States president. She’s just got to get out of jail first. Yep, the Secretary of State wound up under arrest at the end of the CBS […]

Madam Secretary Premiere: Téa Leoni, EP Break Down That Deadly White House Attack, Hillary Clinton's Big Visit

You sure you want a seat at the Resolute Desk, Elizabeth? It would be natural for Madam Secretary‘s protagonist to think twice about her unannounced Oval Office dreams, given that that very room was the site of a lethal act of terrorism in the CBS series’ Season 5 premiere. The episode opened with the attack, which took […]

Madam Secretary's Keith Carradine Talks Dexter, Deadwood, Damages — and That Time He Wooed Madonna

By his own estimation, Keith Carradine “wasn’t much of a horseman” when he landed his first TV role, on Bonanza in 1971. Not that he was planning to share that with the show’s producers if they asked. Thankfully, they didn’t. “The conversation never came up,” the Madam Secretary star recalls. “And if it had, I’m […]

The ‘Manhattan Madam’ who ran a high-end prostitution ring in the 2000s was reportedly questioned in the Mueller probe — here’s everything we know about her

AP Photo/Seth Wenig The “Manhattan Madam” was reportedly questioned as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. Kristin M. Davis, 41, is notoriously known for running a high-end prostitution ring in the 2000s. She is also a close friend of Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign […]

Madam Secretary's Sara Ramirez, EP Break Down Kat and Jay's (Somewhat Shady) LGBTQ Refugee Solution

Kat Sandoval, welcome to the Department of State doghouse. Sunday’s Madam Secretary ended on an upnote of sorts: A group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people was able to slip away from the government persecuting it and take refuge in another nation. But the underground, foreign-policy maneuvering Kat and Jay had to pull […]

Madam Secretary's Sara Ramirez, EP Lori McCreary Tee Up 'Roller Coaster Ride' of LGBTQ Refugee Episode

This Sunday’s Madam Secretary (CBS, 10/9c) focuses on the plight of a group of foreign lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer refugees seeking asylum — a storyline dear to both the political drama’s hotshot strategist Kat Sandoval and the actress who plays her. “Originally, some of the producers shared with me that an international LGBTQI storyline […]

Is Madam Secretary's President Dalton Unfit to Serve? Keith Carradine, EP Preview Sunday's Oddly Prescient Hour

If you’re not very familiar with the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution, you might want to review this bit from Section 4 — it’ll become very relevant during this week’s Madam Secretary: Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as […]