Showtime Renews ‘Your Honor’ For Season 2

Showtime” has picked up a second season of the legal drama “Your Honor”, starring Bryan Cranston. Cranston plays Michael Desiato, a respected New Orleans judge whose teenage son is involved in a hit-and-run that leads to a high-stakes game of lies, deceit and impossible choices.

Peter Moffat (“The Night Of”, “Undercover”) serves as showrunner, executive producer and writer of multiple episodes of “Your Honor”. In addition to Moffat, the series is executive produced by Robert and Michelle King (“The Good Fight”, “The Good Wife”) and Liz Glotzer (“Evil”, “The Good Fight”). Cranston and James Degus (“All the Way”) executive produce the series for Moonshot Entertainment.

Season one of “Your Honor” starred Michael Stuhlbarg (“Call Me By Your Name”) as Jimmy Baxter, the much-feared head of a crime family opposite Hope Davis (“Love Life”, “American Crime’) as his wife, Gina, who might be even more dangerous than her husband. The first season of the series also starred Hunter Doohan (“Truth Be Told”), Carmen Ejogo (“Selma”), Isiah Whitlock Jr. (“The Wire”), and Sofia Black-D’Elia (“The Night Of”) and guest starred Maura Tierney (“The Affair”), Amy Landecker (“Transparent”), Margo Martindale (“The Americans”), Lorraine Toussaint (“Orange Is the New Black”), Benjamin Flores Jr. (“The Haunted Hathaways”), Chet Hanks (“Empire”), Lamar Johnson (“The Hate You Give”) and Lilli Kay (“Chambers”).

“Your Honor” is produced by CBS Studios in association with KingSize Productions, is based on the Israeli series “Kvodo” created by Ron Ninio and Shlomo Mashiach.