US Edition‘Ballard’: Maggie Q, Courtney Taylor & John Carroll Lynch Talk New Team Dynamics and Season-Long Case
LOS ANGELES, JUL 6 – The series features a demoted LAPD detective leading a volunteer cold case team, with Prime Video releasing 10 episodes starting July 9, expanding Michael Connelly's crime universe.
- Prime Video released all 10 episodes of the crime drama series Ballard on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, featuring Maggie Q as Detective Renee Ballard.
- The series adapts Michael Connelly's novels and follows Ballard, a demoted detective leading an underfunded LAPD cold case unit tasked with solving forgotten crimes.
- Ballard struggles personally and professionally while assembling a volunteer team to tackle long-unsolved cases across 10 episodes, each about 45 minutes long.
- Maggie Q described learning from retired real-life detective Mitzi Roberts, saying Roberts mentored her full-time and added authenticity to her role as Ballard.
- Reviews call Ballard entertaining and bingeable, though not as iconic as Bosch, and its storyline and character depth suggest possibilities for future seasons.
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Maggie Q joins Michael Connelly universe with ‘Ballard’
Best-selling author and TV producer Michael Connelly’s universe expands Wednesday with Prime Video’s “Ballard” series. Connelly’s LAPD Detective Renée Ballard was spun-off from his long-running Harry Bosch books. Beginning in 2017 with “The Late Show” she’s now starred in six novels, Onscreen she was introduced with Maggie Q’s appearance in the Bosch series finale. Ballard is a maverick who’s been demoted to assembling a volunteer team, literall…
Ballard TV Review: Maggie Q leads Prime Video's latest entry in the Bosch universe
Plot: Ballard continues to bring Michael Connelly’s bestselling novels to life, following Detective Renée Ballard as she leads the LAPD’s new and underfunded cold case division, tackling the city’s most challenging long-forgotten crimes with empathy and relentless determination. As she peels back layers of crimes spanning decades, including a serial killer’s string of murders and a murdered John Doe, she soon uncovers a dangerous conspiracy with…
Ballard Review and Synopsis
Prime Video is back with another one of your dad’s favorite police procedurals: Ballard, a spinoff of the streamer’s flagship series Bosch, which received an uncensored sendoff this past spring. That latter series was a pulse-pounding tale of righteous justice, led by a beloved character who played by his own set of rules. In Ballard, Michael Connelly—along with showrunners Michael Alaimo and Kendall Sherwood—leaves some of Detective Hieronymus …
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