Michael Emerson will play a recurring role in Elsbeth season two

Michael Emerson is joining CBS' Elsbeth season two in a recurring role. The Emmy winner took the stage during an Elsbeth panel at New York Comic Con on Saturday to announce his role. A sneak peek at the upcoming Halloween episode was also revealed during the panel, which featured a conversation moderated by Elsbeth guest star Laura Benanti, featuring co-creators and executive producers Robert and Michelle King, showrunner and executive producer Jonathan Tolins and cast members Carrie Preston and Wendell Pierce.



In Elsbeth, Carrie Preston (pictured, left) stars as Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney who uses her unique point of view to make unique observations and bring brilliant criminals and murderers into a corner with the NYPD.

Emerson (pictured, right) joins the series opposite his wife (Emerson is married to Preston), playing Judge Milton Crawford, a haughty, meek man from an old New England family of civil servants who takes his place among the elite of the land as a birthright. Emerson previously starred in Paramount+'s Evil, CBS' Person of Interest and NBC's Lost.

Season two of Elsbeth will bring "new cases and challenges as past mistakes return and haunt Elsbeth, her boss Captain Wagner (Wendell Pierce) and detective-in-training Officer Kaya Blanke (Carra Patterson)," according to the press release.

The series is based on the character from 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 kicked off on Thursday, October 17, but the first episode featuring Emerson will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+ on December 12.