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Bosch: Legacyfans are preparing to bid an abrupt farewell to Harry Bosch’s solo stories after the third and final season airs in March 2025. A petition to SaveBosch: Legacywas launched on change.org in the aftermath of the cancelation, and it has garnered nearly 4000 signatures already. Now, the author of the books and executive producer on the show,Michael Connelly, has acknowledged the fans' efforts and this could really help the SaveBosch: Legacypetition in the long run.
In a recent interview,Connelly was supportive of fans who want to saveBosch: Legacy, but he also re-assured them that Harry Bosch isn’t done yet,as he’ll appear in the spin-off show focused on Renee Ballard. However, fans aren’t convincedguest spots inBallardare going to be enough moving forward, and they want the creative team to get a proper opportunity to end the story in the right way.
The Fact That Michael Connelly Mentioned The Bosch: Legacy Petition Gives It A Massive Boost
Michael Connelly is currently touring the US to promote his new Harry Bosch/Renee Ballard book,The Waiting, andhe opened up about the end ofBosch: Legacyin a recentinterview with The Irish Star. He was asked about the ‘spirited Grass Roots campaign’ that was launched in an effort to give the show a proper ending, after Amazon canceled it. Connelly said the petition to SaveBosch: Legacywas:
Very flattering.
These two words were a massive boost for the dedicated team behind the campaign, and it just gives them the impetus to push forward in their efforts.It feels like an endorsement of sorts towards the SaveBosch: Legacypetition, as Connelly certainly isn’t telling the fans to stop their mission.Connelly has been nothing but dignified in his response to the end ofBosch: Legacy, choosing to respect the amazing run Harry Bosch has had on Prime Video:
It’s very hard for me to argue with having 10 seasons of Bosch.
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As much as it has been a great run forBoschandBosch: Legacy, it wouldn’t be surprising if there was a tinge of disappointment from Connelly and the creative team that they weren’t given the chance to wrap things up in a proper way. Later in the interview with The Irish Star, Connelly says:
We didn’t get the word Bosch: Legacy was not going to go on until we were well into producing Ballard.
Fans knowthe end ofBosch: Legacywasn’t a creative decision, as Titus Welliver opened up in a YouTube interview on The Sackhoff Show that he was hoping to return to play Harry Bosch in a fourth season. And Connelly has confirmed in this latest interview that the team weren’t toldBosch: Legacywas ending until filming had been wrapped on season 3.Connelly probably had his hands tied with the statementhe released to announce the end ofBosch: Legacy, because of his continued involvement with Amazon on the production ofBallard.
The Save Bosch: Legacy Petition Will Keep Going Until It Achieves Its Goal
Fan-led petitions are not a new phenomenon, with many previously successful campaigns helping to put pressure on executives to commission more series, spin-offs and movie versions of popular shows.The power of the fans shouldn’t be underestimated, and in the case of the Bosch-verse, it helped to convince Amazon to commissionBosch: Legacy in 2022, after the originalBoschseries ended in 2021.Bosch: Legacyneeds the fans to save it, but it also needs the support of Hollywood. The industry appears to be reeling after the strikes, with a lack of productions currently taking place in the Los Angeles area.If a successful show likeBosch: Legacyis getting canceled, who knows what other great shows could be next?
Fans of Netflix’s hit show,Daredevil, launched a campaignto save the show when it ended after only three seasons back in 2018. It took seven long years, and over400,000 petition signings, but the fans can finally enjoy the fruits of their labor whenDaredevil: Born Againairs on Disney+ in March 2025. As it happens, it’ll be running around the same timeBosch: Legacylaunches its final season. TheDaredevilcampaign left no stone unturned in their pursuit of a new series: they paid for billboards in Times Square to promote the campaign, launched a website, and even got the backing of cast members including Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio.Surely Hollywood will back the fans and speak up to help saveBosch: Legacy?It’s been one of the most successful shows of the last decade. Fans are doing as much as they can to saveBosch: Legacy, but ‘it takes a village’.
