Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker's son will share screen with dad for first time on Elsbeth

The father-son duo won't play father and son, but two cogs in a sinister college admissions manipulation machine.

It's a Broderick family reunion on CBS.

James Wilkie Broderick, the son of Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, has been confirmed as a guest star on an upcoming episode of the legal–turned–police procedural comedy Elsbeth. But that's not all: He'll be joined by his dad. The occasion marks Wilkie Broderick's first major screen role, and the father-son duo's first joint appearance on screen.

James Wilkie Broderick and Matthew Broderick attend the 2023 father of the year awards at Sheraton New York Times Square on June 15, 2023 in New York City
James Wilkie Broderick and Matthew Broderick in 2023.

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The Broderick boys won't be playing father and son, but two administrators of a nefarious college admissions consulting operation. Matthew will play Lawrence Grey, the chief consultant at Outmatch Educational Consulting, which counts Manhattan's elite families with college-aged children among its clients.

Grey resorts to murderous means when his position is threatened, leaving Carl, a "success trainer" at Lawrence's company to pick up the pieces.

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Elsbeth is currently in its second season, the second spinoff by Michelle and Robert King of their uber-successful network legal procedural The Good Wife, which starred Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, the wife of a philandering state's attorney (Christopher Noth) who becomes partner at a top Chicago law firm alongside Christine Baranski's Diane Lockhart.

The Kings wasted no time after The Good Wife bowed following its seventh season in 2016; the following year, they created The Good Fight around the Lockhart character, and that series went on to find an audience of its own and enjoy six seasons across CBS All Access and Paramount+. Elsbeth spins off another Good Wife character, Carrie Preston's Elsbeth Tascioni, a quirky attorney whose idiosyncratic methods and infallible intuition land her a unique gig assisting the NYPD on hard-to-crack cases.

ELSBETH Pictured : Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni
Carrie Preston stars in 'Elsbeth'.

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While the Elsbeth role is the younger Broderick's largest to date, it isn't his first. The actor had a minor role in Natalie Portman's Apple TV+ thriller series Lady in the Lake and has appeared in several productions by Brooklyn's Quick & Dirty Theatre Company alongside fellow nepo babies Levon Hawke and Patrick Alwyn.

This will be Matthew Broderick's first appearance in the extended Good Wife universe.

Elsbeth airs Thursdays at 10 pm ET/PT on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. The exact air date for Matthew and James Wilkie Broderick's guest starring episode has yet to be announced.

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