“The Walking Dead” alum Emily Kinney has joined the cast of ABC’s legal drama pilot “Conviction.”
Hayley Atwell stars in the pilot, and Shawn Ashmore also recently joined the cast.
Mark Gordon and Nick Pepper will executive produce the pilot with co-creators Liz Friedman and Liz Friedlander. Friedman wrote and Friedlander will direct the pilot.
The project is a co-production between the Mark Gordon Co. and ABC Studios, and Entertainment One (eOne) will handle international rights.
The series tells the story of Carter Morrison (Atwell), the brilliant but ne’er-do-well daughter of a former president, who is blackmailed into taking a job as the head of Los Angeles’ newly created Conviction Integrity Unit.