Overview

• Rachel Brosnahan will both star in and executive produce the second season of Apple TV+’s legal thriller Presumed Innocent.
• The new season adapts Jo Murray’s debut novel Dissection of a Murder, scheduled for publication in July 2026, marking the show’s shift to a standalone case each year.
• Brosnahan’s character, Leila Reynolds, faces her first murder trial when she is tapped to defend a client accused of killing a well-respected judge.
• Series creators David E. Kelley and Erica Lipez return as co-showrunners, joined by executive producers J.J. Abrams, Rachel Rusch Rich and Matthew Tinker.
• Jake Gyllenhaal, who starred in the first season, stays on board as an executive producer through his Nine Stories banner.