‘Elsbeth’ Season 2 Trailer Drops As 4 Cast Added Including Vanessa Williams & Pamela Adlon

EXCLUSIVE: CBS‘ Elsbeth is gearing up for its Season 2 return on October 17 at 10 p.m. ET/PT and Deadline has your first look at the trailer above.

Additionally, Pamela Adlon (Better Things), Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty), Rob Riggle (The Hangover) and Brittany O’Grady are set to guest star this season with Aisha Tyler directing one episode.

Based on the character featured in The Good Wife and The Good Fight, Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston), the astute but unconventional consent decree attorney working with the NYPD to catch New York’s well-heeled murderers utilizing her unique point of view.

Showrunner Jonathan Tolins teases what the new season will bring, “As Season 2 begins, just as Elsbeth Tascioni begins to settle into her new life and career in New York, mistakes she made in Chicago come back to haunt her. Officer Blanke (Carra Patterson) and Captain Wagner (Wendell Pierce) face challenges of their own as the precinct recovers from last year’s unpleasantness and is shaken up by a meddlesome new lieutenant. Meanwhile, the team is thrown into more odd slices of elite New York as they face off with people who think they can get away with anything.”

Adlon plays Chef Veev, one of America’s most revered chefs and owner of New York’s hottest restaurant. Despite her anger management training, Chef Veev’s rage turns deadly after a staff member’s side hustle causes havoc in the dining room and blows a major deal.

Williams plays Roselyn, the chic and ultra-wealthy VIP member of an exclusive jewelry store on Fifth Avenue who takes her passion for fabulous jewelry to the next level when she finds out her fortune has run dry, planning a jewel heist with some fellow VIPs. But when one of her recruits threatens to turn her and the crew in, she makes sure nothing and no one will stand in her way.

Riggle plays Neal Dorsey, a billionaire who made his fortune as a paint manufacturer but is considered “uncool” by his fellow billionaires. Neal’s grudge toward an old enemy takes a deadly turn when the fellow billionaire dies in a freak accident while they’re training for a pointless mission to space.

O’Grady plays Mackenzie “Mac” Andrews, a former child star and current party girl plagued by scandals in the tabloids and online. Now desperately working to close a deal that may define the next chapter in her career, Mac wakes up on Halloween after a wild night on the town, wondering whether she may have committed a murder.

Elsbeth is produced by CBS Studios and is executive produced by Robert King, Michelle King, Liz Glotzer and Jonathan Tolins, who also serves as showrunner. Robert & Michelle King co-created the series.