CBS has renewed Elsbeth, a spin-off of The Good Wife, for a second season, bringing back the hit series for another year.
Elsbeth stars Carrie Preston as the titular Elsbeth Tascioni, a lawyer-turned-investigator. After premiering earlier this year on CBS, the series has quickly become one of the company’s most-watched new programs, averaging about 11 million viewers over the first five weeks of its run (via THR).
“Elsbeth has charmed audiences with its singular blend of delightful humor, distinctive ‘how-done-it’ storytelling, and the inventive, brilliant quirkiness of Elsbeth Tascioni,” said CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach in a statement. “Executive producers Robert and Michelle King have a stellar track record for creating critically acclaimed series full of unforgettable characters and, alongside showrunner Jonathan Tolins and his writing team, have developed an incredibly entertaining and engrossing New York City-centric world for the show to explore.”
What is Elsbeth about?
“After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD,” reads the official synopsis for the series.
Carrie Preston starred in both The Good Wife and The Good Fight as Tascioni, and reprises her role in Elsbeth.
Acting as a spin-off of the CBS political drama The Good Wife, Elsbeth is a “howcatchem” television mystery series, which shows the audience from the start who the killer is and then goes through showing how they are caught.
Elsbeth is created by Robert King and Michelle King and is currently airing on CBS.
