Starring Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Erica Tazel, Jacob Pitts, Joelle Carter, and Natalie Zea, FX’s Justified has been renewed for a second season of 10 episodes. The TV show’s first season of 13 installments is set to conclude on June 8th.
Here’s the official release from FX that also includes teasers about upcoming episodes of Justified’s first season.
FX ORDERS SEASON TWO OF JUSTIFIED
Network Orders 13 Episodes for Second Season from FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television
Six All New Episodes Remain in Season One, Tuesdays at 10 PM ET/PT with Season 1 Finale Airing June 8Season One (First-Run) Averaging 3.4 Million Total Viewers and 1.7 Million Adults 18-49
With Multi-Run Weekly Average of 7.5 Million Total Viewers and 3.9 Million Adults 18-49
Basic Cable’s #1 New Series In Delivery of Men 18-49LOS ANGELES, May 3, 2010 – Justice has been served, as FX has ordered another season of its newest critically acclaimed hit drama series Justified, picking up a 13-episode second season, today announced John Landgraf, President and General Manager of FX Networks. Six all new episodes remain in season one, airing Tuesdays at 10 PM ET/PT, with the first season finale airing on June 8th.
“We are very excited about the tremendous, widespread acclaim that Justified has received from both audiences and television critics,” said Landgraf. “Graham Yost, Tim Olyphant, Elmore Leonard and their talented partners have crafted a uniquely ambitious and entertaining series which is everything we aspired to when we developed the show.”
Developed for television by Graham Yost and starring Timothy Olyphant, Justified (TV-MA) is based on the popular Elmore Leonard character “Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens” from his short story Fire in the Hole and some of his other novels.
“I’m just thrilled, and I’m looking forward to chronicling the future adventures of Raylan Givens,” said Yost. “To work with an actor like Tim, who was born to play this role, has been a wonderful experience.”
Through seven weeks, first-run episodes of Justified are averaging 3.4 million viewers and 1.7 million Adults 18-49. The weekly multi-run average viewership for the series is 7.5 million total viewers and 3.9 million Adults 18-49 (six episodes). Justified is this year’s number-one rated new series on basic cable in delivery of Men 18-49 (1.1 million). Justified was the most-watched series premiere in FX history, with 4.9 million total viewers, surpassing The Shield’s 4.8 million total viewers (3/12/02).
“This pick-up speaks volumes to the quality and collaboration on the series, and our unparalleled partnership with FX,” said Jamie Erlicht, President, Programming for Sony Pictures Television. “The viewer response to Justified has been as enthusiastic as ours was when we first heard the pitch.”
SOURCE: The Nielsen Company, NHI (Most Current)
Olyphant stars in the lead role of Givens, a true-blue hero born and reared in the hill country of eastern Kentucky, who left at age 19 to become a U.S. Marshal. Now, years later, after shooting a gun thug in a Miami hotel and thereby incurring the wrath of his Marshals Service superiors, Raylan has been sent in punishment (and by fate?) to the one place to which he vowed he would never return – Kentucky. But, being back in Kentucky, Raylan will also have to confront a past crowded with enough skeletons to choke a graveyard.
The series co-stars Nick Searcy as Givens longtime friend and boss “Chief Deputy Art Mullen”; Jacob Pitts as “Deputy Marshal Tim Gutterson”; Erica Tazel as “Deputy Marshal Rachel Brooks”; Joelle Carter as “Ava Crowder,” Boyd’s sister-in-law; and Natalie Zea as Raylan’s ex-wife “Winona Hawkins.” Walton Goggins guest stars as “Boyd Crowder,” who worked with Raylan in the coal mines as teenagers and has now chosen a criminal path.
Yost wrote the pilot and serves as Executive Producer/Writer on the series. Leonard is an Executive Producer on the series along with Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly and Michael Dinner, who directed the pilot episode. Justified is produced by FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television.
All new episodes of the first season of Justified air Tuesdays at 10 PM ET/PT through June 8. Upcoming episode descriptions are listed below:
Episode 8 – “Blowback” – 5/4/10
LOGLINE: When a murderous inmate takes hostages, Raylan must scramble to defuse the situation before the bullets start flying.
Writer: Benjamin Cavell
Director: Jon AvnetEpisode 9 – “Hatless” – 5/11/10
LOGLINE: Suspended from the Marshals Service, feeling like he has nothing to lose, Raylan faces off with the gangsters who are muscling his ex-wife’s new husband.
Writer: Dave Andron
Director: Peter WernerEpisode 10 – “The Hammer” – 5/18/10
LOGLINE: Determined to repair the damage he’s done, Raylan takes time away from his assignment bodyguarding an eccentric judge to track down an old lead.
Writer: Fred Golan & Chris Provenzano
Director: John DahlFX is the flagship general entertainment basic cable network from Fox. Launched in June of 1994, FX is carried in more than 96 million homes. The diverse schedule includes a growing roster of critically acclaimed and award-winning original series, an established film library of acquired box-office hit movies, and an impressive lineup of acquired hit series.
What do you think? Are you glad to hear that Justified will be back? Anything you really want to see in season two?
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I have fallen in love with Justified and I am so glad it is coming back for Season 2. The dialogue is great. Being from the South, I can relate to the banter and humor among the characters. The action keeps me guessing and on the edge of my seat. Timothy Olyphant is also easy on the eyes!
I am so glad Justified has been given another season 🙂 My husband and I never miss an episode, I love Raylan and Boyd!!!! Thanks FX
Season 2: Love the show and want a season 3!
Can’t say how much my husband & I LOVE the show!!!! Not but a couple excellant shows out there that we both like to watch together. Raylan Givens is the new Clint Eastwood of tv today. So glad to see that the show is renewed for season 2. Can’t wait, cuz there won’t be anything on Tuesday’s until Son’s of Anarchy (another great show)
Thanks FX for a fantastic writing crew.
Best show for the summer season. The finale was very suspenseful. Can’t wait to see it come back.
Love the show. I saved all 13 episodes on my DVR. I can’t wait for season 2. Justified is one of the few shows I watch on TV. My husband didn’t start watching until the middle of season 1 and he had me go back and replay all the episodes in order for him so he could catch up. Now he loves Tuesday night so he can watch Justified too. He was crushed last night when he found out that was the finale. He will be very happy to hear there is going to be a season 2.
What a fantastic ending to season one! Lots of loose endings to tie up in the next several seasons (hopefully). Timothy Olyphant is fantastic, a modern day Seth Bullock. Keep it coming, PLEASE.
I LOVE RAYLAN GIVENS! HE IS THE MAN!!!!!! HE IS SEXY, COOL, CUNNING, AND SO ENTERTAINING! HATED TO SEE THE SEASON END AND CAN’T WAIT FOR IT TO COME BACK ON! BOYD CROWDER DEFINTELY MAKES THE SHOW MORE INTERESTING TOO! GREAT SHOW-KEEP THE SEASONS COMING!
“Justified” rocks.I’ve been a fan of Timothy Olyphant since seeing him in the movie “Rock Star” with Mark Wahlberg.I also liked him in “Hitman” , “A Man Apart” with Vin Diesel and “Live Free or Die Hard” with Bruce Willis.He’s a very versital actor and I can’t think of any other actor playing the part of Raylan Givens,he’s the perfect choice.I’m glad it’s coming back for a second season.My three favorite shows are “Sons Of Anarchy”,”Burn Notice” and “Justified”.I never miss an episode of any of them.
Addicting….Love the show!! My husband and I have watched every show since the first day it Aired…We both born and raised in Kentucky as well as my mother, whom I’ve got her interested in it as well, but have to call to remind her that it’s on, and gets upset if I forget and don’t call her to remind her. But I do have a question for anyone who can answer? The song at the end of the show on the Season Finale?? who sings it and what is the name of the song? Song went something like this “I… Read more »
The name of the song is “You will never leave Harlan alive” originally done by Pattie Loveless, but this version is odne by Brad Paisley. Hope it helps…
Love this show!! Never miss it, will buy it when the series is released to DVD. Hate there is an end to the season, will be counting the days for season 2 to start, like a kid waiting on christmas. I usually just watch news and sports, Justified has me waiting to watch a series program each and every week. Please keep it going!!
I haven’t missed an episode yet. I am absolutley thrilled that the show will return next season. All I need to know now is when the show starts shooting and when the next season begins.. This is going to be a loooonngg summer waiting for the next season to kick off…
Great show!!! A modern day McCloud with a Dirty Harry attitude. Good to have an actual decent television series for a change with all this reality tv crap being force fed us every day.
Great show… casting is superb! When A&E totally censored the Sopranos, the show was doomed. I really like FXs handling of “salty” language.
Hope it goes on for a long time.
Bob
I LOVE JUSTIFED, DON’T MISS IT FOR ANYTHING. OLYPHANT IS SO SEXY I LOVED HIM IN “HITMAN” SO I DECIDED TO CHECK THIS SHOW OUT. I AM SO GLAD I DID AND I AM ESTATIC ABOUT THE SECOND SEASON COMEING OUT.