Fox’s crime anthology series Accused is filling out its season one cast with the additions of Rachel Bilson, Margo Martindale, and Molly Parker. Jack Davenport, J. Harrison Ghee, and Ian Anthony Dale have also boarded the drama set for a 2023 premiere.
In addition, Fox announced Kyle Schmid, Blaine Kern, Chris Coy, Kristen Connolly, Willam Belli, Robert I. Mesa, Natalie Benally, Julia Chan, and Takashi Yamaguchi will be featured in season one episodes.
Michael Chiklis, Billy Porter, and Marlee Matlin were previously announced to star in season one. The cast also includes Aisha Dee, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Karen LeBlanc, Wendell Pierce, Jean-Michel Le Gal, Stephanie Nogueras, Joshua Castille, Megan Boone, Lauren Ridloff, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Baron Vaughn, Sean Kleier, Rhea Pearlman, Aaron Ashmore, and Daphne Rubin-Vega.
Accused is based on BBC’s BAFTA-winning drama and was developed by three-time Emmy Award winner Howard Gordon (24, Homeland). Gordon is executive producing along with Alex Gansa and David Shore.
The series will feature “intense, topical, and exquisitely human stories of crime and punishment,” per Fox. Each episode will focus on a different crime played out by different casts and set in different cities.
Emmy Award winner Margo Martindale and Emmy Award nominee Molly Parker are set for what’s described as a gripping episode tackling conspiracy theories. Rachel Bilson and Jack Davenport will star in an episode about a family caught in a troubling situation. Reid Miller and August Maturo also star in the episode alongside Bilson and Davenport.
J. Harrison Ghee will star in an episode about a drag queen’s affair and its aftermath with Billy Porter directing. Ian Anthony Dale’s episode will involve a brother striving to protect his sibling who was injured in a devastating car accident as a child.
Fox also announced writer/director Tazbah Rose Chavez (Reservation Dogs) is confirmed to write and direct an episode about Native American activists protesting a uranium mine that’s been polluting tribal lands for decades.
Fox released the following description of the series:
“Accused opens in a courtroom on the defendant, with viewers knowing nothing about their crime or how they ended up on trial. Told from the defendant’s point of view through flashbacks, the show holds a mirror up to current times with evocative and emotional stories. In the end, audiences will discover how an ordinary person gets caught up in extraordinary circumstances, and how one impulsive decision can impact the course of that life – and the lives of others – forever.”
