Prime Video’s Bosch spinoff Ballard is one step nearer to a Season 2 renewal after the California Movie Fee lately awarded the collection a $14.84 million tax credit score.
Based on Deadline, TV studios sometimes submit tasks for tax incentives that they imagine in, which both have already acquired a pickup or are on the verge of 1. Ballard, which is ready in Los Angeles, was put ahead for the tax credit score following robust rankings and evaluations for its first season, which premiered on July 9, 2025.
On Wednesday (August 27), the California Movie Fee introduced 22 productions that might obtain a complete of $256 million in state tax credit. Along with Ballard, this included Apple TV+’s The Studio Season 2 and Presumed Harmless Season 2, CBS’ NCIS: Origins, a brand new HBO collection from Larry David, a Hulu drama collection from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman, and extra.
Ballard is a by-product of Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, which facilities on Maggie Q‘s Detective Renée Ballard as she takes command of the LAPD’s new chilly case division—a poorly funded, all-volunteer unit with the most important caseload within the metropolis. As Ballard reopens long-forgotten investigations, she uncovers a bigger conspiracy and calls on the help of her retired ally, Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver), to navigate the risks that threaten each her unit and her life.
The primary season acquired excessive reward from viewers and critics, with the present at present at a 100% ranking on evaluate aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. As well as, the present amassed 2.5 billion minutes considered in america from its July 9 launch by means of the top of the month, touchdown it on Nielsen’s weekly High 10 for streaming originals.
Final month, Q spoke to The Hollywood Reporter concerning the probabilities of a Season 2 renewal, and the actress was retaining her hopes in test.
“I’ve no sense. This business isn’t what it was earlier than. It’s barely recognizable to me, and reveals are so expendable. They will throw out a present in two seconds, and it doesn’t make a ton of distinction that complete worlds and livelihoods are at stake,” she advised the outlet. “Studios all the time have choices. However we now have a writers room, they usually’ve been writing away.”
Whereas Q famous “the arc for the second season may be very thrilling,” she added, “I’ve had [a] writers room employed earlier than after which gotten canceled. So everybody’s like, ‘Maggie, after all!’ I’m like, ‘No, no, no.’ There is no such thing as a ‘after all.’”
“I’m not a adverse particular person in any respect. I’m a really optimistic particular person, however I’m a realist,” she continued. “They despatched me evaluations this morning, and I didn’t wish to learn them. I’m glad they’re optimistic, however I don’t wish to learn them.”
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