Designated Survivor is from The Mark Gordon Company and ABC Studios.
Esteemed actor and activist Michael J. Fox is joining The Mark Gordon Company and ABC Studio’s Designated Survivor on ABC for a five-episode arc in which Fox will guest star as Ethan West, a high-flying and connected Washington attorney who is hired by the President’s Cabinet and ultimately appointed as special prosecutor to investigate former President Cornelius Moss’s alleged leak of classified information.
Following a shocking and surprising winter finale, Designated Survivor returns with all-new episodes on Wednesday, February 28, at 10:00 p.m. EST.
In addition to Guggenheim, the series is executive produced by Mark Gordon, Kiefer Sutherland, Simon Kinberg, Nick Pepper, Jeff Melvoin, Suzan Bymel, Aditya Sood and Keith Eisner, who serves as showrunner on the series.