Kristen Chenoweth attended the Rebecca Minkoff at The Theatre Lincoln Center on September 7

Broadway star and Tony winner, Kristin Chenoweth was badly injured on the set of popular primetime CBS show The Good Wife in July. The petite star told the LA Times in September that she “had a skull fracture, rib issue and neck issue and a hip issue,” and had to be carried off in a stretcher after a lighting rig fell on her.

But this week, she has back in action for the first time, attending several runway shows in New York.

“This is my big night out after seven weeks,” the giddy and tenacious Ms. Chenoweth told The Observer at the DL 1961 fashion show last week in West Chelsea.

“I feakin' loved it!” She said about DL 1961, “I can actually wear the clothes!”

“Will you be attending any more shows?” The Observer asked

“Two more [Rebecca] Minkoff and Nanette Lepore.”

“What do you like most about fashion week?” we wanted to know.

“The artistry, I’m an artist so I appreciate other artists and design,” she chirped over the loud beats of DJ Mia Morretti.

Before bouncing away with her female entourage, Ms. Chenoweth noted that you won't find her on a banquette at the Top of the Standard or gracing Le Baron’s dance floor.

“I’m going to continue with my physical therapy and try to rest,” she revealed.

Smart move.

Alan Cumming (Patrick McMullan)

Last night at the Ace Hotel’s Liberty Hall, Alan Cumming and perfumier Christopher Brosius celebrated the launch of 2nd (Alan) Cumming, a fragrance not substantially different from Cumming, Mr. Cumming’s pre-existing perfume, but one whose proceeds go to charity. “It’s a re-risen version of the original,” said Mr. Brosius, whose share of the proceeds are to go to The LGBT Smoke Free Project. “I’m a smoker,” he said, “and I know how hard it is to quit.”

Notes in the fragrance, which could be sampled by grabbing one of a large pile of pre-spritzed brief underwear at the party’s entrance, include “cigar,” as well as “rubber” and “black pepper.”

“If I’m working with a private client, it’s all about their input,” said Mr. Brosius, wearing a gothesque chain necklace made of huge silver crosses. He said that he and Mr. Cumming had considered 500 possible options. “I am the conduit.”

Mr. Cumming, in camouflage print, luxuriated on a couch, discussing his input into the fragrance. “I told him all the smells I like,” he lilted. “I like so many smells. I told him all the other things I like. And he had ones that made him think of me!”

What was his favorite—what’s the word—note in the fragrance? “Leather.”

Why? “I like leather. Also dirt. I like dirt.” He mimed rubbing his own neck. “It comes in different forms. It comes as an oil.” Rub, rub. “I think it’s more sexy, like, oils and unctions being smeared over you by a lover.”

Mr. Cumming was pleased to have been nominated, for a second consecutive year, for an Emmy for his role in The Good Wife. “Last year, I was nominated in one category, [Best Guest Actor] this year I’m nominated in another category [Best Supporting Actor],” he said. “I’m going to have to get a sex change so I can be nominated for Best Supporting Actress!”

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Accidentally On Purpose (Mondays at 8:30 p.m., premieres September 21)

What CBS says: “Accidentally On Purpose is a comedy starring Golden Globe Award winner Jenna Elfman as Billie, a single woman who finds herself “accidentally” pregnant after a one-night stand with a much younger guy, and decides to keep the baby and the guy.”

What we say: It’s like Knocked Up … but with cougar jokes! Ouch. Accidentally On Purpose has one of the most enviable time slots of the fall—sandwiched right in between How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men—and the added bonus of being the charming Ms. Elfman’s first television series since the long-forgotten Courting Alex in 2006, but we can’t say our hopes are high for this hackneyed sitcom to last very long.

What we’ll say six months from now: “Did you hear CBS is developing a show about a 40-year-old virgin?”

NCIS: Los Angeles (Tuesdays at 9 p.m., premieres September 22)

What CBS says: “NCIS: Los Angeles is a drama about the high stakes world of undercover surveillance at the Office of Special Projects (OSP), a division of NCIS that is charged with apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals that pose a threat to the nation's security.” Chris O’Donnell and LL Cool J co-star.

What we say: It will never cease to amaze us that NCIS, a series starring Mark Harmon of all people, is one of the most popular shows in America. Outside of our parents, who is actually watching that show? That aside, this spinoff promises to offer whatever it is that the patriarchal series offers, albeit in a sunnier venue.

What we’ll say six months from now: “NCIS: Los Angeles is a hit? Who is actually watching that show?!”

The Good Wife (Tuesdays at 10 p.m., premieres September 22)

What CBS says: “The Good Wife is a drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies as a wife and mother who must assume full responsibility for her family and reenter the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.”

What we say: Political scandals never change (see: Sanford, Mark), so The Good Wife feels like it's on the cusp of immediacy even though it could have been made ten years ago. Ms. Margulies, a year removed from the dud that was Canterbury’s Law (we barely remember it either) has always been a transfixing small screen presence, but we’re more excited about the supporting cast which includes Christine Baranski, Josh Charles and, as the bad husband, guest star Chris Noth.

What we’ll say six months from now: “It’s pretty surprising that Mark Sanford still hasn’t resigned.”

Three Rivers (Sundays at 9 p.m., premieres October 4)

What CBS says: “Three Rivers is a medical drama that goes inside the emotionally complex lives of organ donors, the recipients and the surgeons at the preeminent transplant hospital in the country where every moment counts. However, dealing with donor families in their darkest hour and managing the fears and concerns of apprehensive recipients takes much more than just a sharp scalpel.”

What we say: Because what America needs now is yet another doctor show! Three Rivers has already gone through some turmoil—co-star Julia Ormond was replaced after the pilot was picked up—and the premise could not feel more rote. If only Alex O’Loughlin—formerly a vampire on the canceled-but-beloved Moonlight—was be allowed to flash his fangs, Three Rivers might work. Vampires are so hot right now.

What we’ll say six months from now: “Now that Three Rivers is canceled, we’re hearing Alex O’Loughlin is in line for NCIS: Transylvania.”

Mr. Noth is in a suit and red tie. Ms. Margulies wears a pencil skirt, a blue herringbone blazer and pearls. The camera closes in on her face, which is pale and still.

“Good morning. An hour ago I resigned as state attorney of Cook County,” says Mr. Noth’s character, named Peter Florrick. “I have never abused my office. … But at the same time I need to atone for my personal failings with my wife, Alicia, and our two children. The money used for these transactions was mine and mine alone. No public funds were ever utilized. But I do admit to a failure of judgment in private dealings with these women.”

In March of last year, executive producers Robert and Michelle King (they’re married) were watching Silda Spitzer on TV as her husband, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, resigned from office.

“The Spitzers were prominent, but it was really the spring of scandals,” Mr. King told the Transom. “They all had the same interesting character in it, which was not the husband, but the wives, who were almost used as props. There was nothing more worthy of high drama than what was going through these wives’ heads.”

Mr. King didn’t understand why politicians’ wives stayed with their husbands; his wife argued for the complexity of the situation. These disagreements led to a script about a once independent and successful political wife who faces a philandering husband and returns to work as a defense attorney. By summer, they were pitching the show to ABC, which passed, and to CBS.

Ms. Margulies remembered the inescapable footage of the Spitzer resignation.

“If you went to the gym, it was there; if you went online, it was there,” she told the Transom by phone from her New York apartment. “There wasn’t one person who didn’t scream out, ‘Why are you there?’ We were all so quick to judge her.”

After Ms. Margulies met with producers Ridley Scott and David Zucker and accepted the part, she studied the humiliating press conferences of the Clintons, the Spitzers and the McGreeveys. “Every single woman that I watched standing behind her man aged 10 years in a span of two months,” she said. “Then afterward, you see them bounce back. Silda Spitzer was in Vogue recently, and she couldn’t look better. She is running a hedge fund and she seems to have the world at her feet.” (Ms. Spitzer, who works for Metropolitan Capital Advisors, declined to comment.) “In order for this to work, everyone had to be in love with him,” said Ms. Margulies. “All these guys that have fallen from grace, they’re so magnetic. Bill Clinton, I’m sorry, but when all that happened, I kind of understood it. I mean, he’s gorgeous!”  

The show will follow Alicia Florrick (Ms. Margulies) in the aftermath of the very public sex scandal. In one scene, her teenage daughter calls and says, “A girl at school said that Dad slept with a hooker my age.” In another, she watches the TV at her office as news is reported that the “celebrity call girl,” who is blond and does not look at all like Ashley Dupre, is writing a memoir.

“The premise of the pilot is that now you can go anywhere with it,” said Ms. Margulies. “And now we can just start peeling her like an onion because eventually she’ll just snap.”

Mr. King spoke highly of Mr. Noth as the wayward politician. “There is something charming about him—he pursued it with a little bit of Clinton,” he said.

And the cast and producers were thrilled when South Carolina’s governor, Mark Sanford, admitted to having an affair with an Argentine woman just a few weeks ago.

“You should have seen some of the memos going around from agent to manager to producer, like, ‘Could we ask for better publicity?’” Ms. Margulies said. “But I really applaud Jenny Sanford’s reaction to the media; she was so unbelievably classy, as were Silda and Hillary. These women are smart. They’re not wallflowers.

“The great question is, as women become more present in political arenas, are we suddenly going to find out about their affairs?” Ms. Margulies mused. She thought about it for a moment and started laughing. “Actually, I doubt it. We’re just too busy.”