US Edition‘Ballard’: Maggie Q, Courtney Taylor & John Carroll Lynch Talk New Team Dynamics and Season-Long Case
- Prime Video premieres the 10-episode crime drama series Ballard starring Maggie Q as Detective Renée Ballard on July 9, 2025.
- The show expands Michael Connelly's Bosch universe by featuring Ballard's demotion to an underfunded LAPD cold-case unit handling long-forgotten crimes amid bureaucratic tension.
- Ballard assembles volunteers to solve an overarching major cold case across the season, with side cases addressed in two episodes while characters face personal and professional struggles.
- Maggie Q attributes much of the show’s realism to the guidance she received from retired LAPD detective Mitzi Roberts, expressing her enthusiasm for the project by saying that adapting the strongest elements of the books for television is something she is excited to do.
- The series promises a satisfying season-long case resolution and potential for future seasons, delivering a gritty, bingeable crime drama that remains entertaining despite its shortcomings.
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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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