After taking part in Harry Bosch for a decade on Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, Titus Welliver is taking over a brand new main character for a TV crime drama. Welliver and Juani Feliz (Harlem) have been tapped as the 2 leads of CBS‘ potential spinoff from The Equalizer.
As Deadline reported solely final month, the Queen Latifah procedural will introduce the 2 new characters, which might anchor their very own sequence, in Episode 516 this season.
Welliver will play Hudson Reed, a former prime CIA operative with a darkish secret who’s linked to Robin McCall (Queen Latifah) by an outdated mentor. Feliz performs Samantha Reed who has been educated by her father to be a weapons professional, expert martial artist and true chameleon all whereas hiding a mysterious previous.
Episode 516, written by Joseph C. Wilson who will function government producer on the potential sequence, will air within the spring. It’s not designated as a backdoor pilot. CBS has been taking a extra casual strategy with its planted spinoff efforts, introducing potential lead offshoot characters in storylines built-in into common episodes of the mothership sequence, one thing the community has performed twice now on Fireplace Nation, first with Morena Baccarin, whose offshoot was picked as much as sequence, and extra not too long ago with Jared Padalecki.