After playing Harry Bosch for a decade on Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, Titus Welliver is taking on a new leading character for a TV crime drama. Welliver and Juani Feliz (Harlem) have been tapped as the two leads of CBS‘ potential spinoff from The Equalizer.
As Deadline reported exclusively last month, the Queen Latifah procedural will introduce the two new characters, which could anchor their own series, in Episode 516 this season.
Welliver will play Hudson Reed, a former top CIA operative with a dark secret who is connected to Robin McCall (Queen Latifah) by an old mentor. Feliz plays Samantha Reed who has been trained by her father to be a weapons expert, skilled martial artist and true chameleon all while hiding a mysterious past.
Episode 516, written by Joseph C. Wilson who will serve as executive producer on the potential series, will air in the spring. It is not designated as a backdoor pilot. CBS has been taking a more informal approach with its planted spinoff efforts, introducing potential lead offshoot characters in storylines integrated into regular episodes of the mothership series, something the network has done twice now on Fire Country, first with Morena Baccarin, whose offshoot was picked up to series, and more recently with Jared Padalecki.
