Michael Emerson is joining CBS Elsbeth second season in a recurring role.
The Emmy winner took the stage at a Elsbeth Saturday at New York Comic Con to announce his casting. 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 Elsbeth Tascioni, in which he will play Judge Milton Crawford, a haughty, soft-spoken, bespectacled man from an old family of New England civil servants who sees his place among the elite national as a birthright.
Elsbeth stars Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional lawyer who uses her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals and murderers alongside the NYPD. Season two will bring “new cases and challenges as past mistakes come back to haunt Elsbeth, her boss Captain Wagner (Wendell Pierce), and detective officer-in-training Kaya Blanke (Carra Patterson),” according to the press release.
The show is based on the character present 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.
Second season of Elsbeth premiered on October 17, but the first episode featuring Emerson will air December 12 on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.