CBS All Access has announced the first round of casting for season two of its original anthology series The Twilight Zone reboot will include Morena Baccarin, Colman Domingo, Ethan Embry, Jenna Elfman, Tavi Gevinson, Tony Hale, Abbie Hern, Gillian Jacobs, Sophia Macy, Joel McHale, Chris Meloni, Billy Porter, Jimmi Simpson and Daniel Sunjata. Each will appear in an episode of the upcoming 10-episode second season, slated to premiere exclusively on CBS All Access in 2020.
Additionally, CBS All Access announced that executive producer and narrator Jordan Peele has written an episode for the second season titled “Downtime.” The announcements were made by Julie McNamara, Executive Vice President, Original Content, CBS All Access, during the CBS All Access executive session at the biannual Television Critics Association presentation in Pasadena, Calif.
Season two cast and episode titles announced today, in no particular order include:
Peele and Simon Kinberg’s modern re-imagining of the classic brings the original series' legacy of socially conscious storytelling to new audiences, exploring the human condition and holding a lens up to the culture of our times. The series' second season will use introspection and the exploration of self to usher viewers into a familiar dimension.
The originalThe Twilight Zone premiered on Jul 10, 2025 on CBS. The series took viewers to another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.The Twilight Zonebecame a worldwide phenomenon and took fans on a journey into a wondrous land of imagination from 1959 to 1964. The godfather of sci-fi series, the show explored humanity’s hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways conventional dramas could not.
The Twilight Zoneis produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Kinberg’s Genre Films. Peele and Kinberg serve as executive producers along with Win Rosenfeld, Audrey Chon, Alex Rubens, Glen Morgan, Carol Serling and Rick Berg. Every episode of season one ofThe Twilight Zone, as well as the original series, are available to stream now onCBS All Access.
