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‘Your Honor’: Bryan Cranston to Star as a Respected Judge in New Showtime Series

The Good Wife. The Night Of. Bryan Cranston. Those are the three of the award-winning powerhouses coming together to bring Showtime’s newest limited series Your Honor to life.

According to TVLinethe series would be executive produced by  Robert and Michelle King who created both The Good Wife and its successful Christine Baranski spinoff, The Good Fight. It would be written by The Night Of’s Peter Mofatt, who would also serve as showrunner. Emmy Award-winner Bryan Cranston would star as a respected New Orleans judge whose son is involved in a hit-and-run, which leads to a high-stakes game of lies, deceit and impossible choices.”

[row]“Peter, Michelle, and Robert have crafted an original thriller with gut-wrenching suspense, raw emotion and moral complexity, and we are simply ecstatic that Bryan Cranston, one of the planet’s finest actors, shares our enthusiasm and has agreed to play the lead,” said Gary Levine – Showtime’s President of Entertainment.[/row]

The news comes a day after Showtime renewed Shameless for a tenth season, making it the longest-running series on the cable platform.

Production on Your Honor is expected to start later this year.