{"id":102013,"date":"2025-08-28T00:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102013\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:20:10","slug":"ballard-gets-major-season-2-renewal-boost-with-california-tax-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102013\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ballard&#8217; Gets Major Season 2 Renewal Boost With California Tax Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/prime-video\/\" id=\"auto-tag_prime-video\" data-tag=\"prime-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Video<\/a>\u2018s Bosch spinoff <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ballard\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ballard\" data-tag=\"ballard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ballard<\/a> starring Maggie Q already has made a strong case for a Season 2 renewal with positive reviews and solid ratings performance. The Los Angeles-based series\u2019 prospects just got brighter with the potential second season <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/california-film-tv-production-tax-incentives-the-studio-1236498801\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">awarded a $14.84M tax credit<\/a> by the California Film Commission, making a pickup very likely. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTV studios typically submit for tax incentives projects \u2014 series and pilots \u2014 that they believe in which either have already received a pickup or are earmarked for one. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAdd to that the fact that Ballard has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/prime-video-aapi-led-shows-viewership-1236497227\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">generated 2.5B minutes viewed in the U.S.<\/a> from its July 9 binge release through the end of the month, charting on Nielsen\u2019s weekly Top 10 for streaming originals \u2014 most recently at #4 with 619M minutes for the week of July 21 \u2014 and a renewal appears pretty much a lock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tInspired by the work of bestselling author Michael Connelly,\u00a0Ballard\u00a0follows Detective Ren\u00e9e Ballard (Q) as she leads the LAPD\u2019s new and underfunded cold case division, tackling the city\u2019s most challenging long-forgotten crimes. As she peels back layers of crimes spanning decades, including a serial killer\u2019s string of murders and a murdered John Doe, she soon uncovers a dangerous conspiracy within the LAPD. With the help of her volunteer team and retired detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver), Detective Ballard navigates personal trauma, professional challenges, and life-threatening dangers to expose the truth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Amazon MGM Studios series unitizes many Los Angeles area locations, including Venice Beach, the Paradise Cove trailer park in Malibu, Union Station and Los Angeles City Hall \u2014 all featured in Season 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBallard is executive produced by Michael Connelly, Henrik Bastin, Michael Alaimo, Kendall Sherwood, Trish Hofmann, Jet Wilkinson, and Melissa Aouate. Jasmine Russ serves as co-executive producer under Fabel Entertainment. Jamie Boscardin Martin and Trey Batchelor also serve as co-executive producers. Theresa Snider serves as co-executive producer for Hieronymus Pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Video\u2018s Bosch spinoff Ballard starring Maggie Q already has made a strong case for a Season 2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[27818,49,48,75,1912,348],"class_list":["post-102013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ballard","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-prime-video","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}