High Potential Season 2 Adds Steve Howey as Series Regular
High Potential has found the precinct’s new captain in Steve Howey.
Deadline exclusively reported that the Shameless star will join the Kaitlin Olson-led show’s sophomore season as a series regular.
Howey will portray Jesse Wagner, “a savvy political animal who knows how to wear an expensive suit and oozes effortless charm,” per the character description, via The Wrap.
“Besides a guy who can launch a million fundraisers with his smile, he has disruptor tenacity and likes thinking outside the box just like their all-star consultant, Morgan. He has a way of putting himself right in the middle of the action… whether he’s wanted there or not.”
Alongside Olson as Morgan Gillroy, Howey joins returning series regulars Daniel Sunjata as Adam Karadec, Javicia Leslie as Daphne Forrester, Deniz Akdeniz as Lev “Oz” Ozdil, Judy Reyes as Selena as Amirah J, and Matthew Lamb as Morgan’s children, Ava and Elliot, respectively.
High Potential follows Olson’s Morgan, a single mom with an exceptional mind, as she helps solve crimes with Sunjata’s detective Karadec. The series is based on the popular French series, Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (HPI).
It premiered with High Potential Season 1 Episode 1, “Pilot,” in September 2024. The 13-episode debut season wrapped up with High Potential Season 1 Episode 13 Review: Let’s Play in February 2025.
However, in January 2025, ABC gave the series an early Season 2 renewal. Deadline reported at the time that High Potential‘s second season could have a higher episode order than its first. There has been no confirmation on that.
Meanwhile, Olson appeared in a video from the show’s official Instagram account yesterday, sharing that Season 2 began production.
As previously reported, the network has shared that High Potential Season 2 will premiere in fall 2025. The show will return in its usual Tuesday night slot, following new episodes of Dancing with the Stars.
Writer Drew Goddard and Sarah Esberg of Goddard Textiles and Todd Harthan serve as executive producers on the show. 20th Television produces. Kaitlin Olson, who served as a producer on the first season, will executive produce High Potential Season 2.
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High Potential Season 2 premieres in fall 2025 on ABC.
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