Archie Panjabi, the actress who plays the gun-toting, ass-kicking investigator Kalinda Sharma in the CBS drama "The Good Wife," has signed on to headline a new pilot with 20th Century Fox TV. From Deadline:

Panjabi had been thinking about moving on from the show for a while. "Archie is an amazing actress who helped build Kalinda from the ground up as an enigmatic, powerful, and sexy character," The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King said in a statement. "It’s been a pleasure to write for her, and we’ll be sad to see her go; but we still have her for the rest of Season 6, so let’s not exhaust our good-byes yet. We look forward to meeting all the wonderful new characters Archie brings to the screen. But either way, we’re keeping the boots."

Panjabi won a 2010 Emmy for her role on the show, becoming one of the most recognizable actress of South Asian descent in Hollywood. The new pilot is tentatively set for the spring or fall of 2015.