This evening ABC has announced a January 6 premiere date for the second season of the Emmy winning anthology series American Crime created by John Ridley. It effectively replaces Nashville in the 10/9c. time slot, which will resume its current fourth season later in the spring.
The new season features a number of series regulars from the first season returning in completely new roles. Those actors include Felicity Huffman, Timothy Hutton, Elvis Nolasco, Richard Cabral, Lili Taylor and Emmy winner Regina King.
New additions for this season include Connor Jessup, Joey Pollari, Trevor Jackson, Angelique Rivera and André Benjamin.
Here's the official description for the new season:
Issues of sexual orientation and socioeconomic disparity come to a boil when lurid photos of a high school boy, Taylor Blaine (Jessup), are posted on social media following a school party. Circumstances become more complicated when Taylor accuses two players on an elite private high school's championship basketball team, Kevin LaCroix (Jackson) and Eric Tanner (Pollari), of drugging, assaulting and then posting the pictures of him online. The team's head coach, Dan Sullivan (Hutton), tries to unite the players, while overlooking the dysfunction of his own family. Headmistress Leslie Graham (Huffman) struggles to maintain the school's reputation in the face of accusations of privilege and cover up.
Taylor's mother, Anne (Taylor), remains a steadfast supporter of her son, despite being publicly assailed by the school's wealthy families, principle among them the LaCroixs. Taylor's girlfriend, Evy (Rivera), deals with racial tension at her own school, led by Principal Chris Dixon (Nolasco). While the two schools at the center of the story are worlds apart in status, the lives of the students and teachers at both become inextricably linked.
Ultimately, support for Taylor comes from an unlikely place; a person who Taylor and his mother have never previously met, and who inhabits the fringes of the online community.
