Hercules Elects Not To Nominate CBS’ MADAM SECRETARY For Space On Your DVR!! Read the full article on AICN I am – Hercules!! “The West Wing” this isn’t. “Veep” this isn’t. Even “Commander In Chief” was better, though I have to say “Madam Secretary” is at least superior to (faint praise alert!) Greg Berlanti’s useless and not dissimilar “Political Animals.” An unconvincing, predictable, derivative CBS drama about a feisty female former CIA analyst who finds herself suddenly appointed U.S secretary of state, “Madam” comes to us from writer/producer Barbara Hall, who served as creator and/or showrunner for CBS’ “Judging Amy” and “Joan of Arcadia.” I think Hall has either a limited understanding of what a U.S.