{"id":56142,"date":"2025-10-02T11:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/56142\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:39:08","slug":"fiona-shaw-joins-season-2-of-apple-tv-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/56142\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiona Shaw Joins Season 2 Of Apple TV+ Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/fiona-shaw\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fiona-shaw\" data-tag=\"fiona-shaw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fiona Shaw<\/a> (Bad Sisters, Killing Eve) has been tapped as a series regular in the upcoming second season of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/apple-tv-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_apple-tv-2\" data-tag=\"apple-tv-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV+<\/a>\u2018s legal thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/presumed-innocent\/\" id=\"auto-tag_presumed-innocent\" data-tag=\"presumed-innocent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Presumed Innocent<\/a>. She joins lead Rachel Brosnahan and fellow series regulars Matthew Rhys, Jack Reynor and Courtney B. Vance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe anthology series\u2019 second installment is inspired by Dissection of a Murder, the debut legal thriller novel by Jo Murray. It centers on an Leila (Brosnahan), an ambitious defense attorney who takes on a high-profile case. Vance plays Leila\u2019s boss at the law firm; Shaw plays a partner at the firm and Leila\u2019s second chair; Rhys plays Leila\u2019s husband, the prosecutor on the case; and Reynor plays her client, the defendant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLed by Jake Gyllenhaal, Season 1, inspired by Scott Turow\u2019s courtroom thriller of the same name, ranked as the most watched drama on Apple TV+ at the time of its 2024 release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPresumed Innocent hails from Bad Robot Productions and David E. Kelley Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. David E. Kelley serves as showrunner on season two alongside Erica Lipez. Abrams and Rachel Rusch Rich executive produce for Bad Robot. Kelley executive produces through David E. Kelley Productions alongside Matthew Tinker and Lipez. Dustin Thomason also serves as executive producer. In addition to starring, Brosnahan executive produces. Season 1 star Gyllenhaal executive produces under his Nine Stories banner. Turow and Jo Murray, author of Dissection of a Murder, co-executive produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason 1 of Presumed Innocent landed four Emmy Award nominations, including Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Gyllenhaal; Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Bill Camp; Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Peter Sarsgaard; and, Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie: Ruth Negga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIt also introduced Chase Infiniti in her screen acting debut. Following her breakout series regular role on Presumed Innocent, Infiniti was cast as a lead in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s One Battle After Another opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio del Toro. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShaw earned a BAFTA TV Award and two Emmy nominations for Killing Eve. She won an Emmy for her guest starring role on Fleabag. Known for her role in the Harry Potter movie franchise, Shaw was recently seen in the Apple TV+ film Echo Valley and the streamer\u2019s series Bad Sisters as well as HBO\u2019s True Detective: Night Country. Her upcoming projects include the new Sense and Sensibility movie and the Prime Video series Anansi Boys. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiona Shaw (Bad Sisters, Killing Eve) has been tapped as a series regular in the upcoming second season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7074,156,47195,111,139,69,18858,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-56142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-apple-tv","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fiona-shaw","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-presumed-innocent","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}