Bosch Season 1

Bosch Season 1
Number of Episodes	10
Date First Aired	February 13, 2015
Network	Amazon Prime Video
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Season 1 of The Bosch TV Series consists of 10 episodes and was released on 13 February 2015. It is adapted from the books City of Bones, The Concrete Blonde and Echo Park.

Development

During summer 2012, Connelly and Bastin met with writer/producer Eric Overmyer, who they quickly persuaded to become showrunner, and on July 9, 2012, Deadline announced that Connelly had "partnered with Fuse Entertainment (The Killing, The Good Guys) and writer-producer Eric Overmyer (HBO’s Treme) in hopes of finally bringing his Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch character to series TV."

On November 24, 2012, OregonLive reported that Overmyer had completed the teleplay for "the first episode of the Harry Bosch television show," and that the script had been sent "out to studios and networks on Friday," November 23, with an eye toward "cable sensibilities."

Connelly also discussed the possibility of producing the series in conjuction with Netflix, and said of the project: "We're talking about a 10 to 12 episode season that tracks one or two books. Our idea for the first season is to track City of Bones and part of The Concrete Blonde.

After developing a series bible for the show, Connelly and Bastin received a call from Joe Lewis at Amazon Studios, who requested to meet with them in order to request that they forego pitching the project to any other studios and agree to produce the series with Amazon. Connelly, who recognized that the majority of his books are sold through Amazon, immediately expressed interest in making a deal, though Bastin initially had some reservations until it became clear that Amazon would provide the resources for the series to be made exactly as he, Connelly, and Overmyer wanted.

On October 31, 2013, Amazon Studios announced that it had greenlighted Bosch for production. The hour-long pilot starred Titus Welliver as Harry Bosch, with Annie Wersching, Amy Price-Francis and Jamie Hector co-starring; Henrik Bastin of Fabrik Entertainment produced and Jim McKay directed. The first season follows Bosch "as he pursues the killer of a 13-year-old boy while standing trial in federal court on accusations that he murdered a suspected serial killer in cold blood." On the casting of 52-year-old Welliver, Connelly said: "I can’t really imagine Harry as a young guy."

According to Connelly, "a fair [number] of changes" were made "to the world of Harry Bosch" "in making the shift from page to screen." In the series, Harry "is 47 years old and a veteran of the first Gulf War in 1991, where he was part of a Special Forces team that cleared tunnels. He has now been a police officer for twenty years with a one year exception when he re-upped with the Army after 9/11, as many LAPD officers did. He came back to the force after serving in Afghanistan and again encountering tunnel warfare." Connelly also indicated that "the first story/season" would incorporate elements from "a short story called 'Cielo Azul'."

The pilot was filmed from November 4 through November 19, 2013 at multiple locations in and around Los Angeles, and aired on Amazon on February 6, 2014. On March 31, the Los Angeles Times announced that the series had been picked up for a ten episode season, and on May 6, Connelly announced that "a great staff of writers and producers with credits ranging from The Sopranos to The Wire to Boardwalk Empire and Mad Men have signed on and we are in a month’s long brainstorming and writing period, which is the starting point for season one."

Pre-production began in June 2014, while production on new episodes began on August 11. On August 14, Connelly announced that elements of Echo Park would also be incorporated into the first season, having "decided to add the creepy world of killer Raynard Waits into the mix."

Casting

On the topic of casting his titular character, Connelly told the Huffington Post on December 20, 2012: "I've watched House and I could very easily see Hugh Laurie in the role. ...I think there's an opportunity to find someone who's not known to the viewing public and that person can make this role theirs the way Laurie did with House. There are people out there -- people like Kyle Chandler, like Billy Burke -- people that physically look like the guy I've been writing about -- not exactly, but close to it."

Casting began in June 2013, at which time James Gandolfini expressed interest in playing the title character, though he eventually passed on the role. Connelly later suggested Titus Welliver for the role of Harry Bosch, having seen the actor play a military veteran suffering from PTSD in the pilot episode of Touch, and being drawn to "the look in his eyes" which spoke "of an interior life of a damaged man." Welliver was, at that time, in Hong Kong filming Transformers: Age of Extinction, but he ultimately arranged to meet for a casting session on the final day of casting, after which Connelly and Pieter Jan Brugge immediately agreed that Welliver embodied the character of Bosch.

Cast

Starring

• Titus Welliver as Harry Bosch (10 episodes)
• Jamie Hector as Jerry Edgar (10 episodes)
• Amy Aquino as Grace Billets (10 episodes)
• Lance Reddick as Irvin Irving (10 episodes)
• Annie Wersching as Julia Brasher (10 episodes)
• Sarah Clarke as Eleanor Wish (6 episodes)
• Jason Gedrick as David Harris AKA Raynard Waits (8 episodes)

Guest Starring

• Troy Evans as Detective 'Barrel' Johnson, a senior homicide detective at Hollywood Division (10 episodes)
• Scott Klace as Sgt. John Mankiewicz, a Sergeant and Assistant Watch Commander at the Hollywood Division station (9 episodes)
• Mark Derwin as Captain Harvey Pounds, Hollywood division commander (8 episodes)
• Gregory Scott Cummins as Detective Robert 'Crate' Moore, Barrel's longtime friend and partner (7 episodes)
• Steven Culp as Richard 'Rick' O'Shea, the politically ambitious district attorney of Los Angeles County (7 episodes)
• Rose Rollins as Detective Kizmin Rider, junior homicide detective at Hollywood Division (6 episodes)
• Madison Lintz as Madeline Bosch, Harry's daughter (6 episodes)
• Adam O'Byrne as Nate Tyler, an aggressive LA Times reporter (5 episodes)
• Mimi Rogers as Honey 'Money' Chandler, a civil rights attorney (4 episodes)
• Paul Vincent O'Connor as Judge Alvin N. Keyes (4 episodes)
• Abraham Benrubi as Rodney Belk, a lawyer who represented Bosch in his trial (4 episodes)
• Jeff Griggs as Chief of Police John Tenzer (4 episodes)
• Veronica Cartwright as Irene Saxon, Raynard Waits' mother (4 episodes)
• Alan Rosenberg as Dr. William Golliher, a forensic anthropologist (4 episodes)
• Jenica Bergere as Sheila Delacroix, sister of a missing person (4 episodes)
• Pat Skipper as Samuel Delacroix, father of a missing person (4 episodes)
• Shawn Hatosy as Johnny Stokes, a petty criminal and person of interest in the city of bones case (4 episodes)
• Randy Vasquez as DDA Lou Escobar, prosecutor in Waits case (3 episodes)
• Rob Brownstein as Nicholas Trent, a person of interest in the city of bones case (3 episodes)
• Robbie Jones as Officer George Irving, Deputy Chief Irving's son, a rookie cop (3 episodes)
• Mary Page Keller as Christine Waters, mother of a missing person (3 episodes)
• Scott Wilson as Dr Paul Guyot, retired physician (3 episodes)

Co-starring

• Deji LaRay as Officer Julius Edgewood, supervising officer to Julia Brasher (9 episodes)
• John Eddins as Sergeant Delmore 'Wash' Washington, Deputy Chief Irving's driver (7 episodes)
• DaJuan Johnson as Officer Rondell Pierce, partner of George Irving (5 episodes)
• Minerva Garcia as Rosa Flores, plaintiff in the wrongful death suit against Harry (3 episodes)
• Kent Shockneck as Kent Shockneck, newscaster (3 episodes)
• Americus Abesamis as Officer Kiko Pahanui, Hollywood Division officer (3 episodes)
• Jason Sims-Prewitt as Officer Victor Rhodes, Hollywood Division officer (2 episodes)
• Katharine Leonard as Marjorie Lowe, shown in flashbacks as Harry's deceased mother (2 episodes)
• Joni Bovill as Ida, Deputy Chief Irving's assistant (2 episodes)
• Callie Thompson as Lisa Billets, Grace's daughter (2 episodes)

Crew

Producers

• Rachel Rusch - Producer
• Patrick McKee - Producer
• Tom Smuts - Supervising Producer
• Kevin Dowling - Consulting Producer
• William N. Fordes - Consulting Producer
• Diane Frolov - Consulting Producer
• & Andrew Schneider - Consulting Producer
• Pieter Jan Brugge - Co-Executive Producer
• Mikkel Bondesen - Executive Producer
• Jan David Frouman - Executive Producer
• Henrik Bastin - Executive Producer
• Michael Connelly - Executive Producer
• Eric Overmyer - Executive Producer

Episodes

Episode	Writer	Director	Airdate	IMDb rating
"`Tis the Season"	Michael Connelly & Eric Overmyer	Jim McKay	02/13/15	8.7/10
"Lost Light"		Kevin Dowling		8.5/10
"Blue Religion"	Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider			8.7/10
"Fugazi"	George Pelecanos & Michael Connelly	Ernest Dickerson		8.9/10
"Mama's Boy"	William N. Fordes			8.6/10
"Donkey's Years"	Jennifer Ames & Steve Turner	Roxann Dawson		8.5/10
"Lost Boys"	Joe Gonzalez & Eric Overmyer	Alex Zakrzewski		8.7/10
"High Low"	William N. Fordes & Tom Smuts	Matt Earl Beesley		8.7/10
"The Magic Castle"	Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider	Alex Zakrzewski		9.0/10
"Us and Them"	Michael Connelly & Terrill Lee Lankford	Thomas Carter		8.6/10
Source material:	City of Bones, The Concrete Blonde, Echo Park