Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy. Leon Bennett/Getty Pictures
Felicity Huffman and her husband, William H. Macy, are slated to star in season 2 of Accused.
Huffman, 61, and Macy, 74, will seem within the Fox anthology collection with Nick Cannon alongside season 1’s Michael Chiklis.
Within the premiere episode of season 1, Chiklis, 60, took the lead position taking part in neurosurgeon Scott Harmon, who confronted trial for aiding a faculty shooter. It’s not clear what half he’ll play within the second season.
Tailored from Jimmy McGovern’s 2010 British collection of the identical title, Accused made its debut in January 2023. Every installment delves into a definite trial, introducing the accused with their crime undisclosed. The circumstances resulting in their trial are step by step unveiled from the defendant’s viewpoint all through the episode.
A determined housewife and a Shameless dad! Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy’s romance has stood the check of time amid private struggles and triumphs. The couple married greater than 20 years in the past after courting on and off for 15 years. They’re additionally the mother and father of daughters Sophia and Georgia. The Shameless star and […]
Fox introduced a direct-to-series order for Accused in 2021, produced by 24’s Howard Gordon, Homeland’s Alex Gansa and Home’s David Shore. The collection turned a part of the community’s midseason lineup in 2022. Then, in March 2023, Fox confirmed the renewal of the Accused for a second season.
Inside three days of its multi-platform premiere, the debut episode garnered over 11.3 million viewers and achieved a 2.3 score among the many 18-49 demographic. This marks the highest-rated and most-watched debut on Fox previously three years.
The title appears becoming for Huffman’s real-life courtroom saga after she was arrested within the 2019 faculty admissions scandal. The actress, who contributed $15,000 to govern her daughter Sophia’s SAT scores, was amongst 50 people concerned within the scandal, together with fellow actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli.
Huffman was sentenced to 14 days in jail and one yr of supervised launch, fined $30,000 and ordered to do 250 hours of group service. She accomplished her sentence by October 2020.
“It’s been exhausting. Form of like your outdated life died and also you died with it,” Huffman instructed The Guardian in a February interview. “I’m fortunate sufficient to have a household and love and means, so I had a spot to land.”
In March 2019, a supply completely instructed Us Weekly that Macy was “heartbroken” over the ordeal. “He’s been in tears.”
The couple, who tied the knot in 1997, share daughters Sophia, 23, and Georgia, 22.
Following the scandal, Huffman retreated from the highlight, solely to resurface briefly in 2023’s The Good Physician earlier than making her stage debut earlier this yr in a revival of Hir.
Other than Accused, the Determined Housewives alum is ready for a visitor look on the second season of the Prison Minds spinoff Prison Minds: Evolution.
Huffman and Macy have shared the display screen earlier than. They beforehand appeared collectively in 1992’s The Water Engine and 1993’s A Slight Case of Homicide.
