'Madam Secretary' series premiere: Tea Leoni finds her own politics unhelpful

Tea Leoni Secretary Of State CBS Pilot This is a big casting coup right off the bat this pilot casting season. CBS has set Tea Leoni as the lead in drama pilot Madam Secretary, from Joan Of Arcadia creator Barbara Hall and 

Cut to Elizabeth McCord (Téa Leoni), a professor dressing down a student asking for an extension on a term paper, and on her way to visit her Thomas Aquinas-spouting religious studies prof/hubby (Tim Daly) to let him know 

Tea Leoni opened up about her ex-husband David Duchovny after their divorce earlier this year — see what she had to say.

Téa Leoni plays the self-centered, spoiled, crazy shrew to Adam Sandler's calm, creative, loving husband, with the entire film pushing him toward an affair with their charming, smart housekeeper, played by Paz Vega.

Tea Leoni dished recently about her split from X-Files actor David Duchovny as well as about her upcoming CBS show Madam Secretary. Not surprisingly, the two topics even merge. It was in Parade magazine that Leoni