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Streaming is nan default viewing action for scripted bid these days, truthful it’s difficult to ideate that nan upstart SVOD platforms, arsenic we called them astatine nan time, were a very risky proposition a decade and a half ago. Bestselling writer Michael Connelly reminded america that, arsenic he remembered prolific TV writer-producer Eric Overmyer, who died March 16 at nan property of 74.
“About 15 years ago, I met pinch Eric Overmyer successful New York City to effort to person him to beryllium nan showrunner/creator of a TV show based connected my books astir Harry Bosch,” Connelly wrote connected IG adjacent to a photograph of himself, Overmyer and Bosch prima Titus Welliver. “I had met Eric erstwhile before, and he had spoken very knowingly astir nan characteristic of Bosch.”
The transportation to Overmyer, a Treme co-creator and Homicide, Law & Order and The Wire writer-producer, wasn’t straightforward.
“There was a catch. The show was going to beryllium connected this caller shape of tv watching called streaming. Amazon was dipping its toed successful it, and Bosch would beryllium its first drama,” Connelly added. “My producing partner, Henrik Bastin, and I were halfway done our income transportation erstwhile Eric trim america disconnected and said, ‘I don’t cognize if you are auditioning maine aliases I americium auditioning you, but I’m in.’ And truthful it started.”
Bosch went connected to go Prime Video’s longest-running bid to day astatine 7 seasons and its first franchise, spawning 2 spinoffs, including Bosch: Legacy, which Overmyer and Connelly co-created and executive produced.
It besides reignited TV liking successful Connelly’s work, helping to pave measurement to different successful, long-running adaptation, Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer.
“We went connected to make 98 episodes of 1 of nan champion detective stories ever told connected television,” Connelly said about Bosch. “It wouldn’t person happened without Eric. Now he’s gone but nan stories he told will unrecorded on. Rest successful peace, my friend.”
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