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Prime Video Crime Drama Ballad is reportedly informed that the cast and crew were informed of the picks. Although Amazon MGM Studios has not commented, the timing track will arrive less than three months after the 10-episode first season of Binge Drop on July 9th.
Why it’s likely to be updated?
Season 1 of the Maggie Q-LED series landed strong as well as viewers and critics, sitting 100% on rotten tomatoes, earning the 2.5 billion minutes seen in the US during July. It was also placed in Nielsen’s weekly top 10 for streaming the original for weeks, including a #4 finish that was viewed for 619 million minutes of viewed in the week of July 21st.
Incentives and Executive Shuffle
LOS ANGELES – Production on the set secured a California Film Commission tax credit of $14.84 million in August. This is another clear signal that Season 2 was on the card. Industry Chatter suggests that update calls across Prime videos have slowed down due to recent changes at the top, and Peter Friedlander will take over Vernon Sanders as head of global television at Amazon MGM Studios. Still, the franchise’s momentum has not been cooled accurately.
What’s getting exciting in season 2?
Separate reports feature a look through flashbacks of Harry Bosch’s young iteration, which was featured by Jack Mead Mararchy. If it is unfolding, expect the ballad to weave the past and present, and tie the cold case into the formative chapters of Bosch’s career. Balance is very important. Fans accept Maggie Q’s detective Renéballad as the franchise’s new anchor, and the detour of the timeline needs to go deeper, rather than dilute her arc.
Who is involved with the setup?
Inspired by Michael Connery’s work, Ballard leads LAPD’s underfunded cold case division, following Detective Line Ballard, working on a long-term investigation from a decades-long trail of serial killers to institutional pushbacks and personal stakes, while unidentified John Doe. Season 1 starred Maggie Q in Courtney Taylor, Michael Mosley, Rebecca Field, Victoria Morrores, Amy Hill and John Carroll Lynch, featuring Titus Welliver’s return as Harry Bosch. Executive producers include Connelly, Henrik Bastin, Michael Araimo, Kendall Sherwood, Trish Hoffman, Jet Wilkinson and Melissa Oate, while Jasmin Russ is a co-eppa of Fabel Entertainment. Jamie Boscardin Martin, Trey Batchelor and Theresa Snider also act as Co-Eps.
Conclusion
The official Amazon MGM Studios words are still pending, but performance metrics, tax incentives and the broader Bosch Vestairwind all show that the ballad stays in the case. I’ll update it once the update is officially confirmed.
