A Confusing Update About ‘Ballard' Season 2 On Amazon Prime Video
Ballard is a hit. It's currently Amazon Prime Video's #1 show, even beating out the long-awaited return of The Summer I Turned Pretty, back for its final season.
The show currently sits at a very rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, and you may think that auto-greenlights a season 2. Well, rather odd news on that front.
Star Maggie Q is saying that season 2 is moving forward without an actual renewal in a new interview with THR, even in an industry where shows are 'expendable':
'I have no sense (about renewal). This industry is not what it was before. It's barely recognizable to me, and shows are so expendable. They can throw out a show in two seconds, and it doesn't make a ton of difference that whole worlds and livelihoods are at stake. Studios always have options. But we have a writers room, and they've been writing away. The arc for the second season is very exciting. But I've had writers room hired before and then gotten canceled. So everyone's like, 'Maggie, of course!' I'm like, 'No, no, no.' There is no 'of course.' I am not a negative person at all. I'm a very positive person, but I'm a realist.'
So this is hedging bets a bit. There is already a writers room working season 2, but despite that investment of time and resources, it's still not a guarantee that a season 2 will happen. Amazon has not confirmed Ballard has been renewed for season 2, nor was it originally greenlit for a double-season run, as sometimes happens with shows streamers are confident about.
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All this said, despite Maggie Q not wanting to get her hopes up, and this being a brutal industry at times in terms of surprise cancellations, I'm willing to go all-in that there is a 100% chance Ballard will be renewed for season 2.
1) It's stayed at #1 essentially since its release almost two weeks ago
2) It has perfect critic scores and solid enough audience scores.
3) It's a lower-budget crime series, and that's the kind of thing Amazon wants to see as they attempt to print more huge hits like Reacher.
All the pieces are there for a season 2 renewal, and it's just not unusual for a show to be two weeks in and still not renewed, even a hit. I don't think they wanted to fully gamble ahead of time with an instant greenlight, but Ballard and its star have nothing to worry about, mark my words.
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