Prime Video’s Bosch is getting another TV spin-off starring a character we haven’t met yet

Harry Bosch is in for a busy 2024 as yet another spin-off show will feature the craggy ex-cop

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Harry Bosch is one of the great characters in modern detective fiction, and so farAmazonhas made twoPrime Videoshows about him: the eponymousBoschand spin-offBosch Legacy.

Now, a third is on the way, albeit it won’t star Titus Welliver in the lead role. PerVariety, one of the world’sbest streaming servicesis getting another, currently untitled spin-off series focusing on a character you haven’t met yet. Well, unless you haven’t read Michael Connelly’s books. The new show will focus on detective Renée Ballard, whose cold case adventures have been the focus of several of Connelly’s most recent thrillers.

This is a great way to keepBoschcurrent because – spoilers! – in the TV show’s universe, he’s long retired. InBosch Legacy, though, he remained a major character, mostly because of his inability to keep himself out of trouble. In the franchise’s latest spin-off, he’ll be playing a mentor role to Ballard and, if you’ve read the books, you’ll know his mentoring style is going to be of the action-packed persuasion rather than a simple advisory role telling Ballard how best to approach her cases.

Opinion: more Bosch can never be a bad thing

I have to confess that I loveBosch. I loved him in the books, I loved him in his self-titled series – which we should really add to ourbest Prime Video showsguide – and I lovedBosch Legacy, too. The latter managed to stay on just the right side of preposterousness and, whileLegacyand its predecessor are chock-full of cop-show tropes, they do it so well it’s impossible to resist their considerable charm.

The Ballard-fronted series might not be the only new spin-off show, either. As Variety also reports, there have been discussions about a side project focusing on Jerry Edgar (Jamie Hector), Bosch’s on-screen partner who occasionally appears inBosch: Legacy. I hope that’s the case, too – Edgar always felt like something of an afterthought in the Amazon’s adaptation of Connelly’s novels and, as one of the few Black characters in the cast, Hector feels woefully underused. Edgar is very different from his partner, so the prospect of an Edgar-starring series is really interesting to me.

If you haven’t already been bitten by theBoschbug, you can stream it on Prime Video. Additionally, you can catchBosch LegacyonAmazon Freevee, which is the e-commerce giant’s completely free streaming service. Oh, and if you’re after more TV adaptations of Connelly’s works,The Lincoln Lawyeris currently available to stream onNetflix. In my view, it’s one of thebest Netflix showsaround, so hop to it.

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.

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