<p id=”par-1_8″>Harry Bosch is back, but with a twist. </p>
<p id=”par-2_22″>On Wednesday, MGM+ announced that it had green lit a <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/amazon-just-killed-off-planned-bosch-spinoff-j-edgar.html/”>new <em>Bosch </em>spinoff</a> focused on the detective’s early years with the LAPD.</p>
<p id=”par-3_28″><em>Harry Bosch: Start of Watch </em>rolls the clock back to Los Angeles in 1996. It will follow 26-year-old Harry Bosch during his early days as a rookie cop. </p>
<p id=”par-4_69″>“The series will explore a city on the edge, teeming with racial tension, gang violence, and a fractured LAPD,” MGM+ shared in the announcement. “Amid routine calls and growing unrest, Bosch finds himself drawn into a high-profile heist and a web of criminal corruption that will test his loyalty to the badge and shape his future as the detective who lives by the code, ‘Everybody counts or nobody counts.’”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-cameron-monaghan-plays-harry-bosch-in-new-spinoff”>Cameron Monaghan plays Harry Bosch in new spinoff </h2>
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<p id=”par-5_87″>Cameron Monaghan will play Harry Bosch in <em>Bosch: Start of Watch. </em>Monaghan is known for playing Ian Gallagher on Showtime’s <em>Shameless, </em>twins Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska on <em>Gotham, </em>and Tom Fairfax in PBS’s <em>Mercy Street. </em>He also appears in the just-released <em>Tron: Ares </em>as Caius. Monaghan’s Bosch, a probationary patrol officer with the LAPD, is a “stoic, unyielding young man, intensely observant.” He already “possesses all the qualities that will come to <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/bosch-legacy-series-finale-ending-explained-what-happened-to-harry-bosch.html/”>mark his legendary career</a>: he’s smart, relentless, determined, fiercely protective of the victims of crime.”</p>
<p id=”par-6_66″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/omari-hardwick-explained-made-mistake-kissing-beyonce.html/”>Omari Hardwick</a> (<em>Power, Army of the Dead</em>)<em> </em>will play veteran officer Eli Bridges in the new show. Training officer Bridges is a “seasoned, salty” Vietnam vet who guides the young Harry “through the mean streets of Los Angeles and the complicated world of the LAPD. Bridges is fighting a war on the streets and looking for soldiers, and they don’t come any brighter than Hieronymus Bosch.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-bosch-start-of-watch-will-film-in-los-angeles”>‘Bosch: Start of Watch’ will film in Los Angeles </h2>
<p id=”par-7_20″>Like <em>Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, </em>and <em>Ballard, Bosch: Start of Watch </em>will film on location in Los Angeles starting in 2026. </p>
<p id=”par-8_35″>“It’s a terrific privilege to be able to explore both the origins of this iconic character and the Los Angeles that formed him in the early 1990s,” said series co-creator and executive producer Tom Bernardo.</p>
<p id=”par-9_78″>“I’m deeply grateful to Michael Wright and the team at MGM+ for championing this next chapter in Bosch’s journey with such remarkable care and integrity,” said Michael Connelly, author of the best-selling series of Bosch novels. “Being able to see how Harry Bosch became the man we have loved for 10 seasons is a gift to me and his many fans. I can’t wait to dig in with Cameron and the writers to explore this uncharted character territory.”</p>
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