New Series! “61st Street” Starts Sunday, April 10 @ 10PM on AMC [VIDEO]

In this legal drama, promising high school athlete Moses Johnson (Tosin Cole) and his lawyer (Courtney B. Vance) battle Chicago’s corrupt criminal justice system after Moses is arrested as a supposed gang member.

The two-season event from BAFTA-winner Peter Moffat, J. David Shanks, and Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society debuts Sunday, April 10 @ 10PM ET/PT on AMC, with the first two episodes streaming on AMC+ and ALLBLK. New episodes of the eight-episode first season will rollout weekly, on Sundays, and will be available one week early on AMC+ and ALLBLK.

From AMC Studios, 61st Street courses through the dark heart of the infamous Chicago criminal justice system as police and prosecutors investigate a deadly drug bust that threatens to unravel the police department’s code of silence. Vance (The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Lovecraft Country), leads an ensemble cast that includes Emmy®-nominee Aunjanue Ellis (When They See Us, King Richard), Mark O’Brien (City on a Hill, Blue Bayou), Holt McCallany (Mindhunter, Lights Out), Tosin Cole (Doctor Who, Hollyoaks), Andrene Ward-Hammond (Your Honor, Manifest) and Bentley Green (Snowfall, Sweet Magnolias).

CAST:
· Andrene Ward-Hammond as Norma Johnson
· Aunjanue Ellis as Martha Roberts
· Bentley Green as Joshua
· Courtney B. Vance as Franklin Roberts
· Holt McCallany as Lieutenant Tardelli
· Mark O’Brien as Logan
· Tosin Cole as Moses

	61st Street
	Network: The CWGenre: DramaSeasons: 2Episodes: 16
	Overview Moses Johnson is a promising high-school athlete with a bright future who’s accused of murdering a police officer during a drug bust gone wrong. Swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system, Moses’ case is taken up by ageing public defender Franklin Roberts, who sees this as his chance to finally challenge the institutional racism at the heart of the judicial system.