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Carrie Preston plays Elsbeth, 16 years after her first appearance on “The Good Wife”.
TV SERIES – Elsbeth Tascioni returns to the small screen. Secondary character but quickly became popular in legal series The Good Wife et The Good Figth, this Chicago lawyer with an eccentric personality is the heroine of her own detective spin-off. The series Elsbeth has been broadcast since January 8 on TF1. Actress Carrie Preston (who became famous with True Blood) was inspired by another American television series hero to portray the intrepid inspector.
« 14 years ago, when I started playing this character, the Kings told me that she had this little Columbo thing, in the sense that no one sees her coming », confides Carrie Preston to our colleagues at First. Everything then accelerated during confinement as the actress explained. Robert and Michelle King continue episodes of ColumboAmerican detective series with Peter Falck created in 1968. While the idea of making a spin-off on the character of Elsbeth had been flowering in their heads since The Good Wifethe couple decides to adapt the concept of Columbo to their new series.
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To make Elsbeth a feminine Inspector Columbo, the recipe is simple for the actress: a “ character underestimated by his interlocutors » and the choice of “Howcatchem”, which can be translated as “how to catch them” as a narrative structure. From the start of the episode, the viewer knows the culprit and his crimes. It remains to be seen how the new inspector will unmask him.
The codes of “Columbo”
For the actress, no need to be knowledgeable about The Good Wife et The Good Figth to understand the series. “ It’s truly a series apart. There are a few nods, some old characters are mentioned here and there, but nothing more. », Explains Carrie Preston, specifying that most American viewers did not even know her character before watching the episodes.
In this spin-off which also has Wendell Pierce, Carra Patterson and Jesse Tyler Ferguson in the cast, Elsbeth Tascioni leaves behind her career as a lawyer to settle down in New York and become a detective. She is now responsible for observing how the New York police handle criminal cases, while secretly investigating Captain Wagner. The pilot episode was viewed by 3.85 million viewers on TF1 on January 8. The rest of season 1 is broadcast every Wednesday at 9:10 p.m. on TF1.
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