Oprah Winfrey's much-anticipated interview with Rihanna is close at hand, during which the two women will tool around Barbados, probably hug a lot, and talk about Chris Brown, who is back in Ri-Ri's life after the 2009 assault if you go by tabloids and collaborative remixes. The tears she sheds are remarkably sadder…

With the 2010-2011 TV season almost in the books, it's time to start dreaming about the 2011-2012 TV season. What? I like to plan ahead.

There are very few one-hour dramas in which a woman is the star. But Julianna Margulies is the sole lead on The Good Wife, which will be entering its third season in the fall. Yet Margulies thinks the networks have serious issues when it comes to handling female-oriented shows.

From this alternately amusing and disturbing "marital rating scale," we get a snapshot of what was expected of husbands and wives in the 1930s. The charts were posted by Thought Catalog, which says they were written based on surveys of men and women by the Scientific Marriage Foundation.

After a failing grade from GLAAD CBS's programming head has promised to add gay characters, including a gay brother for Julianna Margulies on The Good Wife, a lesbian surrogate on Rules of Engagement, and someone on S#*! My Dad Says.

When Jon Caramanica writes about a show in which "a female alien lands largely unannounced in a predominantly male universe," he's talking about The Good Wife — because on television, single women over 35 might as well be Martians.

Jenny Sanford has sold an "inspirational memoir" to Random House, and on CBS's The Good Wife, Julianna Margulies goes from bad marriage to awesome legal career. But not all women pick up their lives — or careers — so easily.