{"id":196107,"date":"2025-10-07T23:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/196107\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T23:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:41:07","slug":"elsbeth-showrunner-jonathan-tolins-teases-wonderful-guest-stars-and-elsbeth-finding-her-footing-in-season-3-premiere-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/196107\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Elsbeth\u2019 Showrunner Jonathan Tolins Teases \u2018Wonderful\u2019 Guest Stars and Elsbeth \u2018Finding Her Footing\u2019 in Season 3 Premiere (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elsbeth is back on CBS<\/a> this Sunday, and showrunner Jonathan Tolins spoke to PopCulture.com <\/a>about what\u2019s coming up.<\/p>\n

In the Season 3 premiere, \u201cYes, And..,\u201d airing on Sunday at 9:30 p.m. ET, \u201cElsbeth dives into the world of late-night comedy when backstage tensions rise between a talk show host (Stephen Colbert), his head writer Laurel (Amy Sedaris), and her on-air sidekick husband, Mickey (Andy Richter).\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, \u201cElsbeth meets a new police officer (Lindsay Mendez) who is an aspiring stand-up comic when off the clock.\u201d With the premiere being filled to the brim with guest stars<\/a> on the heels of Season 2\u2019s star-studded finale<\/a>, Tolins shared what it was like having them all on set, especially Colbert following The Late Show\u2019s cancellation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pictured: Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni and Stephen Colbert as Scotty Bristol Photo: Michael Parmelee\/CBS<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to have given Stephen Colbert a job,\u201d Tolins jokingly expressed. \u201cIt was just a thrill for us to be back, and also just all of the guest stars, Stephen, Amy, and Andy Richter were exactly who I hoped they would be. They were just wonderful to work with and a delight to be around.\u201d<\/p>\n

They are some of the several guest stars lined up for Elsbeth\u2019s third season<\/a>, with others including David Cross, Julia Fox, William Jackson Harper, Annaleigh Ashford, and The Good Wife star Sarah Steele, who is reprising her role as Marissa Gold<\/a>. Since Elsbeth is rarely ever predictable, there is no telling what will happen in these episodes, especially the premiere, but fans will want to tune in for these guest stars.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pictured (L-R): Amy Sedaris as Laurel Hammond-Muntz and Andy Richter as Mickey Muntz Photo: Mark Schafer\/CBS<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Carrie Preston\u2019s titular character is coming off of a rough Season 2. Between what went down with Judge Crawford, going to prison, and having to say goodbye to her best friend, she didn\u2019t have it easy one bit. And unfortunately, it won\u2019t get easier for Season 3.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeason 3, she has just come back from a visit with Angus in Scotland, and we get the sense that it wasn\u2019t a total dream, and we\u2019ll hear more about that as we go on,\u201d Tolins revealed. \u201cBut, so Kaya is off doing undercover work, and Elsbeth is a little bit unsettled and is cultivating new friendships. Characters coming in, including one played by Lindsay Mendez, who is wonderful in the premiere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Pictured (L-R): Wendell Pierce as Captain Wagner and Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni Photo: Mark Schafer\/CBS<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s finding her footing again,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe have some more stuff with Teddy, so we get to see Elsbeth as mom, which is always fun. And she\u2019s going to cross paths with some new characters and some longer arcs, including a politician whom she meets with whom she seems to have great chemistry, and that\u2019s going to rock her world a little bit. And also bring in a character who is that character\u2019s campaign manager, who turns out to be Marissa Gold from The Good Wife and The Good Fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

It all begins with the Season 3 premiere of Elsbeth at a special time on Sunday at 9:30 p.m. ET on CBS. The series will go back to its regular slot on Thursday, Oct. 16 at 10 p.m. ET with the second episode of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elsbeth is back on CBS this Sunday, and showrunner Jonathan Tolins spoke to PopCulture.com about what\u2019s coming up.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[37003,49,48,32120,6714,31239,75,3668,348],"class_list":["post-196107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-andy-richter","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carrie-preston","tag-cbs","tag-elsbeth","tag-entertainment","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}