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FX serves a second season of 'Justified' for Olyphant and Goggins fans

By April MacIntyre May 3, 2010, 22:21 GMT

03/08/2010 - Timothy Olyphant - "Justified" Premiere Screening - Arrivals - Directors Guild of America - Hollywood, CA, USA © David Gabber / PR Photos

FX series "Justified" is coming back for a heaping helping of season two, thanks to the powers that be at the network home to Sons of Anarchy, The League, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Rescue Me and the late great comedy that only M&C is openly mourning: Testees. 

As it stands, six new episodes remain for season one, which airs Tuesdays at 10 PM ET/PT - the season finale airs June 8

Justified is basic cable’s #1 New Series In Delivery of Men 18-49

FX ordered another season of Justified, picking up a 13-episode second season, today announced John Landgraf, President and General Manager of FX Networks. 

“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 and Walton Goggins, Justified 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.”   

"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."

Premise: 

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, in a fateful banishment, Raylan has been sent back home to 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.

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 Avnet

Episode 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 Werner

Episode 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 Dahl