Madam Secretary creator on the final season revamp: “It was like launching a new series"

TVLine

It was originally an inside joke on the CBS drama that Téa Leoni's Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord would become President McCord. But with each season, the joke became less funny. “We found a way to have the best of both worlds, where we decided to jump ahead and make her president,” says creator Barbara Hall. "And we get the fun of picking and choosing the moments that we go back to, so that we don’t have to take even four or five episodes to do a whole campaign.”