Q: What will Josh Charles do, now that he’s off “The Good Wife”?

— Julie Todd, Columbus, Ohio

A: The actor has finished a couple of movies, “Bird People” and “Brother’s Keeper,” and there’s likely more film work — and possible stage work as well, since he also has done that — in his future.

Variety would seem to be what he’s about in his career these days, since his exit from the CBS series was prompted by his desire to leave the comfort of his Will Gardner character — which he’d played for the better part of five seasons — and see what else was out there.

Q: Will “Those Who Kill” be returning?

— Larry English, Hoffman Estates, Ill.

A: It already has, but in a different “location” … which well could be the reason you weren’t aware of it resurfacing. A&E Network pulled the Chloe Sevigny-starring drama series after two telecasts whose ratings didn’t exactly set the world on fire, to be charitable.

Especially telling was the plunge in numbers it had in being scheduled right after “Bates Motel,” which now is in Season 2 on A&E. “Those Who Kill” moved to LMN, aka Lifetime Movie Network, at the end of March; it’s been running there on Sundays, and it’s a reasonable bet this will be the show’s only season.

Q: Why has “Mind Games” been taken off?

— Susan Rivers, Rio Rancho, N.M.

A: Again, it was due to unsatisfactory ratings, but it wasn’t the only show that ran into them in that Tuesday time slot on ABC this season. “Lucky 7” was gone about as fast as it started there at the beginning of the TV year, and “Killer Women” — whose ratings ironically prompted ABC to pull it in order to premiere “Mind Games” earlier than planned — had a slightly longer but still-brief tenure there.

After a low-rated start, “Mind Games” scored even lower in subsequent weeks and pretty much stayed in that range, which led ABC to remove it from the lineup and give the well-received “Resurrection” an extra run in that hour for a couple of weeks before bringing “Celebrity Wife Swap” back.

Q: It’s nice to see Gillian Anderson back on television in “Crisis.” What else has she done in the years since “The X-Files”?

— David Fisher, Pottstown, Pa.

A: She did much work on television (“Bleak House,” “Great Expectations,” “The Crimson Petal and the White”), in film (“The Last King of Scotland,” “Johnny English Reborn”) and onstage (“A Doll’s House”) in England, where she spent much of her childhood. Of course, she also returned as Dana Scully in the movie “The X-Files: I Want to Believe,” and she had a recurring role last season on NBC’s “Hannibal.”

Q: With “How I Met Your Mother” over, is there a chance Cobie Smulders will join “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”?

— Jeff Cohen, Buffalo, N.Y.

A: There’s always a chance for anything in this world, as long as the relevant people are around. Smulders clearly has kept up her Marvel ties, having appeared again as agent Maria Hill in the “S.H.I.E.L.D.” pilot and playing the part again now in the movie “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”

She’ll also be back in the part in next year’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” but now that she’s a free agent where television is concerned, time will tell whether “S.H.I.E.L.D.” wants Maria in the fold permanently.

Q: With his return to television, would Christopher Meloni ever consider doing a guest shot as Detective Stabler on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”?

— Charles Wright, Richmond, Calif.

A: That’s a tough question to answer, since Meloni himself doesn’t answer it. We posed it to him very directly in a recent interview for his new Fox sitcom, “Surviving Jack,” and he was noncommittal — not to mention rather nonverbal — on the subject as a whole.

When it was mentioned to him that people certainly would think in those terms because of his long run on the NBC drama, the closest thing to a significant response was, “I understand that.” The translation would seem to be that he’s focused on his professional present and future rather than revisiting its past.

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