--- title: Hillary Clinton's Favorite TV Shows: Madam Secretary and The Good Wife description: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she loves Madam Secretary, The Good Wife and HGTV shows on remodeling. canonical: https://time.com/3983064/hillary-clinton-favorite-tv-shows/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-03T21:44:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:29.559Z article:section: Politics og:title: Clinton's Favorite TV Shows: Madam Secretary, The Good Wife og:description: The 2016 hopeful said she's also addicted to HGTV shows about home-buying. og:url: https://time.com/3983064/hillary-clinton-favorite-tv-shows/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59ecec882bf104f6/69885db6e20a879e00a8c924/hrc.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1350 og:image:alt: HRC og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Clinton's Favorite TV Shows: Madam Secretary, The Good Wife twitter:description: The 2016 hopeful said she's also addicted to HGTV shows about home-buying. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59ecec882bf104f6/69885db6e20a879e00a8c924/hrc.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton's Favorite TV Shows Include _Madam Secretary_ and _The Good Wife_ > Sponsored content. 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Uri Schanker—WireImage/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Aug 3, 2015 9:44 PM UTC Hillary Clinton sat down for an interview with South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison in a slightly less formal seat than her regular venues: a rocking chair. Harrison’s “[Chair Chats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awSbpudJI54)” series is meant to be a more personal discussion than the average presidential interview, acknowledging that politicians are people, too. It accordingly kicked off with plenty of talk about Clinton’s granddaughter, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, and how much fun the former Secretary of State is having as a grandmother. As for who’s the better diaper changer, Hillary or Bill, she said, “We both were out of practice.” Harrison also grilled Clinton on her favorite TV shows, and she listed two on-the-nose series, _Madam Secretary_ and _The Good Wife_, as well as costume drama _Downton Abbey._ “But what I relax by,” she said, “is House and Garden TV,” naming some of her favorite HGTV programs to kick back and enjoy, such as _Love it or List it_ and _Beachfront Bargain Hunt._ Clinton and Harrison also tackled more serious matters like education and the Black Lives Matter movement. “There are some who say, ‘Well, you know, racism is a result of economic inequality,'” she said. “I don’t believe that. I think income inequality is, in large measure, a symptom of underlying racism.” She would not answer a question on which Republican she’d prefer to face in the general election, arguing that she still needs to make it through the Democratic primary. \[[Chair Chats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awSbpudJI54)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3983064/hillary-clinton-favorite-tv-shows/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3983064/hillary-clinton-favorite-tv-shows/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton's Favorite TV Shows Include Madam Secretary and The Good Wife","datePublished":"2015-08-03T21:44:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:29.559Z","description":"The 2016 hopeful also loves HGTV","url":"https://time.com/3983064/hillary-clinton-favorite-tv-shows/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59ecec882bf104f6/69885db6e20a879e00a8c924/hrc.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59ecec882bf104f6/69885db6e20a879e00a8c924/hrc.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"HRC","caption":"Former First Lady and Secretary Of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a campaign stop at Florida International University on July 31, 2015 in Miami, Florida.","creditText":"Uri Schanker—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3983064/hillary-clinton-favorite-tv-shows/","name":"Hillary Clinton's Favorite TV Shows Include Madam Secretary and The Good Wife"}}]}] ```