'The Good Wife' news and updates: When will the show end?

In an interview, at SoHo hotel Julianna Margulies, declared the show's end, 'The Good Wife'

After seven-year run, "The Good Wife" comes to an end on Sunday, May 8. As the television show's creators, the husband-and- wife team of Robert and Michelle King, and its star, Julianna Margulies, gathered at the SoHo hotel for an interview in mid-April, just three days after filming the 156th and final episode of the CBS drama.

"Someone said 'You must feel great, you wrapped,'" Ms. Margulies said. "And I said, 'I feel like I'm in a dream.' I'm not quite there yet."

During the interview, Ms. Margulies and the Kings often finished one another's sentences and joked about working together again - on a one-woman show about a female Stalin. In these edited excerpts, they chatted about their goals for the finale, the changes in Alicia and the challenges of shooting sex scenes for broadcast television.

Earlier this year, there were rumblings that "The Good Wife" might return for an eighth season even though the Kings were leaving. How did the decision to end the show come about?

JULIANNA MARGULIES I felt like I was put between a rock and a hard place. I was getting messages from all over the place that if you want to keep doing the show, CBS will do it. And in the beginning of the year, Michelle and

Robert came to me and said we're writing the show as if it were ending because we're out. So suddenly I felt like I was put in this very precarious position. If I say yes, I'm screwing them over, because they had a vision for the show, and it's their baby. And if I say no, the network's going to be angry, and so is the cast and the crew.

But then CBS made that decision for me, and I didn't have to do a thing. David Stapf, who is the head of CBS Studios, called me and he said, 'The last thing that I would want of the show that has been a feather in CBS's cap for seven years is for the eighth year, without the Kings, to be the one where critics start saying they should have ended when the Kings did.' And he's right. I think they were honoring the Kings' intentions.