CBS has renewed Elsbeth, a spin-off of The Good Wife, for a second season, bringing back the hit series for another year.
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
“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.
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.Anthony Nash has been writing about games and the gaming industry for nearly a decade. When he’s not writing about games, he’s usually playing them. You can find him on Twitter talking about games or sports at @_anthonynash.
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