{"id":448925,"date":"2026-05-28T05:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448925\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:13:12","slug":"hbo-max-officially-has-its-answer-to-bosch-and-the-lincoln-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448925\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max Officially Has Its Answer to ‘Bosch’ and ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Connelly loves a streaming platform, it’s clear to see, but he’s got a wandering eye. His characters have already had a ridiculous run on TV, with Bosch becoming one of Prime Video’s earliest breakout hits, Bosch: Legacy<\/a> taking it in a new direction and Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer<\/a> bringing a ton of eyes onto the platform. But with Harry Bosch<\/a> filed away into a drawer, and The Lincoln Lawyer wrapping up its final cases, there’s a big Connelly shaped gap on TV and HBO Max wants to change that. <\/p>\n

Today, HBO confirmed \u2014 via Deadline \u2014 that they are developing Welcome to Catalina, a new police drama from David E. Kelley based on Connelly\u2019s 2024 bestseller Nightshade. Kelley, who previously worked with Connelly before on Netflix\u2019s The Lincoln Lawyer adaptation, will write the project, which revolves around Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Detective Stilwell, a cop who has been \u201cexiled\u201d to what sounds like a quieter post policing Catalina Island. Of course, given that this is a Connelly story, it’ll be quiet for about the first ten minutes of the pilot. <\/p>\n

Collider Exclusive \u00b7 Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz
\n Which Taylor Sheridan
Show Do You Belong In?
\n Yellowstone \u00b7 Landman \u00b7 Tulsa King \u00b7 Mayor of Kingstown<\/p>\n

Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes \u2014 he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd20Yellowstone<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udee2\ufe0fLandman<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc51Tulsa King<\/p>\n

\u2696\ufe0fMayor of Kingstown<\/p>\n

\n FIND YOUR WORLD \u2192\n <\/p>\n

01<\/p>\n

Where does your power come from?
\n In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.<\/p>\n

\n ALand, legacy, and a name that’s been feared and respected for generations.
\n BKnowing the deal better than anyone else in the room \u2014 and being willing to walk away first.
\n CReputation. I’ve earned it the hard way, and everyone in the room knows it.
\n DBeing the only person both sides will talk to. That makes me indispensable \u2014 and dangerous.\n <\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

02<\/p>\n

Who do you put first, no matter what?
\n Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute \u2014 and always costly.<\/p>\n

\n AFamily \u2014 blood or chosen. The ranch, the name, the people who carry it with me.
\n BThe company \u2014 or whoever’s signing the cheques. Loyalty follows the contract.
\n CMy crew. The men who stood with me when it counted \u2014 I don’t abandon them for anything.
\n DMy community \u2014 even when my community is a powder keg and I’m the only thing stopping it from blowing.\n <\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

03<\/p>\n

Someone crosses a line. How do you respond?
\n Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.<\/p>\n

\n AQuietly, decisively, and in a way that sends a message to everyone watching.
\n BI outmanoeuvre them legally, financially, and politically before they even know I’ve moved.
\n CDirectly. Old school. You cross me, you hear about it to your face \u2014 and then you deal with the consequences.
\n DI absorb it, calculate the fallout, and find the move that keeps the whole system from collapsing.\n <\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

04<\/p>\n

Where do you feel most in your element?
\n Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.<\/p>\n

\n AWide open land \u2014 mountains, sky, silence. Somewhere you can see trouble coming from a mile away.
\n BThe oil fields of West Texas \u2014 brutal, lucrative, and indifferent to whoever happens to be standing on top of them.
\n CA mid-size city where the rules haven’t quite caught up yet \u2014 fertile ground for someone with vision and nerve.
\n DA rust-belt town built around a prison \u2014 where everyone’s life is shaped by what’s inside those walls.\n <\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

05<\/p>\n

How do you feel about operating in the grey?
\n Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.<\/p>\n

\n AI do what has to be done to protect what’s mine. I’ll answer for it eventually \u2014 but not today.
\n BGrey is just business. The line moves depending on what’s at stake, and I move with it.
\n CI have a code \u2014 it’s not the law’s code, but it’s mine, and I don’t break it.
\n DI’ve made peace with it. Keeping the peace requires compromises most people don’t have the stomach for.\n <\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

06<\/p>\n

What are you actually fighting to hold onto?
\n Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.<\/p>\n

\n AA way of life that the modern world is doing everything it can to erase.
\n BMy position \u2014 and the leverage that comes with being the person everyone needs to close a deal.
\n CRelevance. I’ve been away, I’ve been written off \u2014 and I’m proving that was a mistake.
\n DWhatever fragile order I’ve managed to build \u2014 because without it, everything burns.\n <\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

07<\/p>\n

How do you lead?
\n Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given \u2014 it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.<\/p>\n

\n ABy example and force of will. People follow me because they believe in what I’m protecting \u2014 and because they know what happens if they don’t.
\n BThrough negotiation and leverage. I don’t need people to like me \u2014 I need them to need me.
\n CBy being the smartest, most experienced person in the room and making sure everyone quietly knows it.
\n DBy being the calm centre of a situation that would spiral without me \u2014 and accepting that nobody thanks you for it.\n <\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

08<\/p>\n

Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction?
\n Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.<\/p>\n

\n AThey’ll learn. Or they won’t. Either way, the land was here before them and it’ll be here after.
\n BI figure out what they want, what they’re worth, and whether they’re an asset or a problem \u2014 fast.
\n CI was the outsider once. I give them a chance \u2014 one \u2014 to show they understand respect.
\n DNew players destabilise everything I’ve built. I assess the threat and manage it before it manages me.\n <\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

09<\/p>\n

What has your position cost you?
\n Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.<\/p>\n

\n AMy family’s peace \u2014 maybe their innocence. The ranch demands everything, and I’ve let it take too much.
\n BRelationships, time, any version of a normal life. The job eats everything that isn’t nailed down.
\n CYears. Decades in some cases. Time I can’t get back \u2014 but I’m not done yet.
\n DMy conscience, mostly. And the ability to ever fully trust anyone on either side of the wall.\n <\/p>\n

NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n

10<\/p>\n

When it’s over, what do you want people to say?
\n Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.<\/p>\n

\n AThat I held the line. That the land is still ours and everything I did was worth it.
\n BThat I was the best at what I did and that no deal ever got closed without me at the table.
\n CThat I built something real, somewhere nobody expected it, and I did it on my own terms.
\n DThat I kept the peace when nobody else could \u2014 and that the town is still standing because of it.\n <\/p>\n

REVEAL MY SHOW \u2192<\/p>\n

Sheridan Has Spoken
\n You Belong In\u2026<\/p>\n

The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown \u2014 you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.<\/p>\n

\n \ud83e\udd20
\n Yellowstone<\/p>\n

\n \ud83d\udee2\ufe0f
\n Landman<\/p>\n

\n \ud83d\udc51
\n Tulsa King<\/p>\n

\n \u2696\ufe0f
\n Mayor of Kingstown<\/p>\n

You are a Dutton \u2014 or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate \u2014 you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.<\/p>\n

You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer \u2014 the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.<\/p>\n

You are a Dwight Manfredi \u2014 someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished \u2014 who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.<\/p>\n

You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway \u2014 because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace \u2014 and who do the job regardless.<\/p>\n

\n \u21bb RETAKE THE QUIZ\n <\/p>\n

What Is ‘Welcome to Catalina’ About?<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n

The series follows Stilwell as he handles the usual low-level island problems, including drunk-and-disorderly cases and petty thefts, before he gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor. So, yes, the rustic island assignment very quickly becomes less \u201claid-back transfer\u201d and more \u201cwelcome to your new nightmare.\u201d That\u2019s usually how these things go.<\/p>\n

Welcome to Catalina is being developed under HBO Max\u2019s new drama procedural model, which is designed for shows that can return annually with sizable episode orders while keeping costs moderate. The model was introduced with The Pitt, the streamer\u2019s Emmy-winning medical drama, which produces 15 episodes a year. For HBO Max, a Connelly police drama from Kelley<\/a> is probably the perfect fit for that plan. It utilizes a recognizable author, proven creator<\/a>, strong procedural engine, and plenty of room for yearly cases that they can churn out. <\/p>\n

Kelley will executive produce alongside Matt Tinker, president of David E. Kelley Productions, as well as The Lincoln Lawyer team of A+E Studios\u2019 Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson, Ross Fineman of Ross Fineman Entertainment, and Connelly himself. HBO Max is the lead studio, with A+E Studios serving as co-studio.<\/p>\n

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