Michael Emerson is joining CBS‘ Elsbeth season two in a recurring role.
The Emmy winner took to the stage at an Elsbeth panel at New York Comic Con on Saturday to announce his casting. A sneak peek at the upcoming Halloween episode was also unveiled during the panel, which featured a conversation, moderated by Elsbeth guest star Laura Benanti, with co-creators and executive producers Robert and Michelle King, showrunner and executive producer Jonathan Tolins and cast members Carrie Preston and Wendell Pierce.
Emerson (The Practice, Lost) joins the series as a foil to his wife’s Elsbeth Tascioni, in which he will play Judge Milton Crawford, a haughty, soft-spoken and bespectacled man from an old New England family of public servants who sees his place in the nation’s elite as a birthright.
Elsbeth sees Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney who utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals and murderers alongside the NYPD. Season two is set to bring “new cases and challenges when mistakes of the past come back to haunt Elsbeth, her boss Captain Wagner (Wendell Pierce) and detective-in-training Officer Kaya Blanke (Carra Patterson),” per the press release.
The show is based on the character featured in The Good Wife and The Good Fight. Robert King, Michelle King, Jonathan Tolins, Liz Glotzer, Erica Shelton Kodish, Bryan Goluboff and Gail Barringer serve as executive producers.
Season two of Elsbeth premiered on Oct. 17, but the first episode featuring Emerson will air on Dec. 12 on CBS and stream on Paramount+.
Source: Hollywoodreporter
