Summary
- Bosch: Legacy will end after its third season in March 2025 and will be replaced by the Ballard spin-off.
- Amazon planned Bosch: Legacy’s end long before canceling the show in September 2024.
- Amazon’s main focus is on marketing and advertising rather than quality content for viewers.
Bosch: Legacy will come to an abrupt end after its third season airs in March 2025. Amazon canceled it back in September 2024, and claimed it was all part of the plan to pave the way for the Ballard spin-off to take over the reins of the Bosch-verse. Amazon were clearly planning for this outcome long before they informed the Bosch: Legacy creative team of the impending cancelation. Amazon released two images of Bosch and Ballard from the finale of season 3, nearly a year ahead of its release.
Why would Amazon specifically promote the finale of Bosch: Legacy season 3 so early on? Fans now know that this episode will be a standalone backdoor pilot to the Ballard spin-off, and not a fitting end to Bosch: Legacy. It wasn’t written with the intention of Harry Bosch fading into the background, but Amazon were plotting to make Ballard the replacement for Bosch: Legacy.
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Amazon Clearly Decided To Cancel Bosch: Legacy A Long Time Ago
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Bosch: Legacy Season 3 |
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Starring |
Titus Welliver, Mimi Rogers, Madison Lintz, Chang, Denise G. Sanchez, Scott Klace, Gregory Scott Cummins, Troy Evans, Orla Brady, Michael Reilly Burke, Andrea Cortes, Dale Dickey, Mark Rolston, Anthony Gonzales, Tommy Martinez and Maggie Q |
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Based on the books by |
Michael Connelly |
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Created by |
Tom Bernardo, Michael Connelly, and Eric Ellis Overmyer |
Amazon didn’t inform the creative team behind Bosch: Legacy that season 3 would be the end until filming had been completed. Titus Welliver was expecting to begin shooting the fourth season this month, but Amazon dropped the cancelation bombshell back in September 2024. Amazon clearly knew this was the plan long before then, but didn’t give the creative team the heads-up. The streamer confirmed there would be a crossover between Bosch: Legacy and Ballard in the final episode of season 3, and fans were gearing up for both shows to act as a one-two punch for years to come. However, Amazon’s secret intention was to promote the Ballard spin-off in Bosch: Legacy, with a planned transition of power. Not only did Amazon lie to the fans, but they did the dirty on the cast and crew.
Titus Welliver’s pre-cancelation comments confirmed that he saw the Ballard spin-off as a companion show to Bosch: Legacy and certainly not a replacement. In addition to this, Welliver’s contract on Ballard suggested there were plans for more Bosch: Legacy, as he’d only signed up for three guest appearances in the spin-off. Amazon’s cancelation of Bosch: Legacy looks like it was planned for a long time, and they used the special relationship they’d built with Titus Welliver and Michael Connelly over the last 10 years to make sure they could use Bosch: Legacy as a launchpad for Ballard.
Save Bosch: Legacy Petition Key Facts
- A petition to Save Bosch: Legacy can be signed HERE
- The petition has over 20,000 signatures on change.org
- Amazon Freevee is being shut down ahead of Bosch: Legacy’s final season.
Amazon Has A Very Particular Strategy Moving Forward And Bosch: Legacy Doesn’t Fit Into It
Amazon has an advertising strategy that has absolutely nothing to do with giving fans quality television shows and movies. All they want to do is get eyeballs transfixed on their barrage of adverts, and they’ll market a show to a specific audience in order to achieve that. Amazon is just one of many streamers out there who are dumbing down their ‘content’ to cater to an ever increasingly distracted audience. Amazon is targeting the casual viewer, who scrolls on their phone during a television show, instead of investing in high quality content that urges them to switch off. They don’t want fans to ‘switch off’ because if they do that, their advertising model is doomed.
Bosch and Bosch Legacy are prestige television shows, with superb cinematography and multi-layered storylines. When Amazon launched their streaming service over a decade ago, they cared about this kind of thing. In fact, it was the original Bosch series that played a huge part in putting them on the map. However, when Bosch: Legacy was launched in 2022, it was dumped onto Amazon’s ad-supported service, Freevee. Hands up: who hated all the adverts that interrupted Bosch: Legacy‘s first two seasons? Amazon had so little respect for the Bosch-verse, they used it as their guinea pig to test if adverts were the way forward for their streaming content. Amazon Freevee was subsequently shutdown, and the streamer now runs adverts on their main platform, and Bosch: Legacy has been canceled. Go figure!
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