Starz Orders Season Two of Hightown

The Starz Original crime drama Hightown, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Lionsgate Television, has been picked up for a second season.

Created and executive produced by Rebecca Cutter, Hightown is set on Cape Cod and follows hard-partying National Marine Fisheries Service Agent Jackie Quiñones’ (Monica Raymund) journey to sobriety, intertwined with an unfolding murder investigation. When Jackie discovers a body on the beach—another casualty of Cape Cod’s opioid epidemic—her free-wheeling life is thrown into disarray.

James Badge Dale (Only the Brave), Riley Voelkel (Roswell, New Mexico, The Originals), Shane Harper (Code Black, Happyland), Amaury Nolasco (Prison Break, Deception), Atkins Estimond (The Resident, Lodge 49) and Dohn Norwood (Mindhunter, The Sinner) also star.

Hightown is available on the Starz app, on-demand and on Starz in the U.S. and Canada, and day-and-date on the StarzPlay international streaming service across Europe and Latin America.

Christina Davis, president of original programming at Starz, said: “Rebecca [Cutter], Gary [Lennon] and Jerry [Bruckheimer] delivered an elevated and well-executed drama that embodies all the hallmarks of a Starz premium series with its dynamic, edgy storytelling, multicultural cast and female leadership both in front of and behind the camera. Audiences are already deeply engaged with these flawed and complex characters and in a second season we will continue to dive deeper into the relationships between them amidst the shifting tides on the Cape.”