Streaming is the default viewing option for scripted series these days, so it’s hard to imagine that the upstart SVOD platforms, as we called them at the time, were a very risky proposition a decade and a half ago. Bestselling author Michael Connelly reminded us of that, as he remembered prolific TV writer-producer Eric Overmyer, who died March 16 at the age of 74.
“About 15 years ago, I met with Eric Overmyer in New York City to try to convince him to be the showrunner/creator of a TV show based on my books about Harry Bosch,” Connelly wrote on IG next to a photo of himself, Overmyer and Bosch star Titus Welliver. “I had met Eric once before, and he had spoken very knowingly about the character of Bosch.”
The pitch to Overmyer, a Treme co-creator and Homicide, Law & Order and The Wire writer-producer, wasn’t straightforward.
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