Apple TV+ has landed an Emmy winner to lead the next season of its legal thriller Presumed Innocent.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Rachel Brosnahan has signed on to star in season two of the series from David E. Kelley and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot. Brosnahan will also be an executive producer.
The first season of Presumed Innocent, based on Scott Turow’s novel, starred Jake Gyllenhaal as a prosecutor accused of killing a colleague. In renewing the series, Apple TV+ opted to make it an anthology rather than continue following Gyllenhaal’s character (the actor will remain an executive producer on season two).
The coming season is inspired by Dissection of a Murder, a novel by Jo Murray that’s set for publication in July 2026 from Pan Macmillan. Details of the show’s plot are being kept quiet; the publisher’s description of the novel says it follows a young lawyer defending the accused killer of a well-respected judge.
Bad Robot and David E. Kelley Productions produce Presumed Innocent in association with Warner Bros. TV. Kelley and Erica Lipez (The Morning Show) will be co-showrunners on season two, executive producing with Abrams and Rachel Rusch Rich for Bad Robot, Matthew Tinker of David E. Kelley Productions, Gyllenhaal (via his Nine Stories company) and Brosnahan. Turow is a co-exec producer.
Brosnahan earned five Emmy nominations for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, winning best lead actress in a comedy in 2018. She plays Lois Lane in director James Gunn’s Superman, due in theaters July 11; her credits also include House of Cards, Manhattan and The Amateur. She is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Schreck Rose and the Lede Company.
