{"id":886042,"date":"2026-09-09T19:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886042\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:50:11","slug":"the-rainmaker-sets-season-2-release-date-unveils-full-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886042\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Rainmaker&#8217; Sets Season 2 Release Date; Unveils Full Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/usa-network\/\" id=\"auto-tag_usa-network\" data-tag=\"usa-network\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA Network<\/a> has slotted Friday, October 16 for the Season 2 premiere of hit legal drama series <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-rainmaker\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-rainmaker\" data-tag=\"the-rainmaker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Rainmaker<\/a>, inspired by John Grisham\u2019s bestselling novel, and unveiled the full trailer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason two stars returning Milo Callaghan, Lana Parrilla, P.J. Byrne, Madison Iseman, Merle Dandridge, Richard Kind\u00a0and Austin Nichols. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe season picks back up with Rudy Baylor (Callaghan), an underdog lawyer taking on powerful interests alongside\u00a0his boss Jocelyn \u201cBruiser\u201d Stone (Parrilla) and his\u00a0right-hand\u00a0man\u00a0Deck Shifflet (Byrne), the firm\u2019s\u00a0colorful\u00a0paralegal. This season, J. Lyman Stone and Associates\u00a0faces\u00a0old adversaries and new ones in a case where the lives of hundreds of children hang in the balance, and where winning might be just as dangerous as losing. Later, Rudy goes up against his former law school flame, Sarah\u00a0Plankmore\u00a0(Madison Iseman),\u00a0in the courtroom at the\u00a0behest of her\u00a0mysterious\u00a0new boss, Amanda\u00a0Vonn\u00a0(Dandridge), a\u00a0powerful attorney whose agenda\u00a0may be hiding a shocking international conspiracy. In a separate case,\u00a0Bruiser\u2019s ex-husband Tom\u00a0Cassady\u00a0(Nichols) turns to her for help as his legal troubles\u00a0threaten his life and that of the star pitcher (Liam O\u2019Halloran)\u00a0of the\u00a0minor league baseball\u00a0team he\u00a0coaches. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAdditional\u00a0cast members include Asher De Land, Libby Kay, Kevin Ryan, and Tim Murphy. John Slattery and Karen Bryson also return. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShowrunner and executive producer Michael Seitzman shared thoughts on the upcoming season<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/09\/the-rainmaker-season-2-first-look-photos-interview-1237067078\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> in an earlier interview with Deadline.<\/a> \u201cSeason 1 ended with Rudy winning a massive case. Season 2 opens with the case in appeal and Rudy suddenly famous, receiving letters and phone calls from every lost cause in the state looking for a savior, said Seitzman. \u201cOne letter arrives from a kid in juvenile detention, and it\u2019s the one thing in the pile nobody would blame him for ignoring. But Deck sees something in it, a mystery and a puzzle to solve. Moreover, he sees it as a way for Rudy to get back to being a fighter for the underdog. The season for Rudy is about reminding himself who he really is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn 2025,\u00a0The\u00a0Rainmaker\u00a0became USA Network\u2019s most-watched\u00a0freshman\u00a0series in seven years and finished the year as the #1 highest-rated new scripted TV series across all of cable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe\u00a0Rainmaker\u00a0is produced by Lionsgate Television and\u00a0Blumhouse\u00a0Atomic Monster.\u00a0Michael Seitzman, who also serves as showrunner, John Grisham, Patrick Moran, Jason Richman, David\u00a0Gernert\u00a0and Jason Blum serve as executive producers. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCheck out the full trailer above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USA Network has slotted Friday, October 16 for the Season 2 premiere of hit legal drama series The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,109348,55500,13293,427,50879],"class_list":["post-886042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-premiere-dates","tag-the-rainmaker","tag-trailers","tag-tv","tag-usa-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}