Titus Welliver’s new crime drama collection hasn’t been launched but, however there’s already a constructive replace about its season 2 possibilities.
After greater than a decade of enjoying Harry Bosch within the unique Bosch collection and the continuation Bosch: Legacy on Prime Video and Amazon Freevee, respectively, Welliver is heading to MGM+ for his subsequent main TV position. The actor is starring as Glenn Keenan in The Westies, which follows the title Irish-American felony gang in New York Metropolis within the Eighties. Forward of season 1’s arrival later this month, The Westies’ co-creator and showrunner is optimistic that season 2 will occur.
In an interview with Deadline, Chris Brancato, who created the MGM+ collection with fellow govt producer Michael Panes, mentioned that whereas he’s not “at liberty to debate what’s arising subsequent,” he’s “very assured there will probably be a second season of The Westies.” This comes out of bigger discussions that Brancato has had with Michael Wright, MGM+’s International Head, about “cooking up just a few further exhibits for the longer term.” He additional described Wright as “an incredible ally and all the time is aware of when to step in and provides his ideas a few collection.”
The Westies is Brancato and Panes’ third MGM+ collection, following Godfather of Harlem (which is ready to finish with a two-hour finale) and Resort Cocaine. Brancato can also be nicely often called the creator of Netflix’s Narcos and its companion collection Narcos: Mexico. Between Brancato and Panes’ stable observe document at MGM+ and the early constructive buzz for The Westies, evidently the present has lined up for a brilliant future, although that’s not 100% assured presently.
This collection focuses on two childhood mates who took totally different paths in life, with one turning into a police officer, and the opposite turning into a member of the Westies gang. Similar to in actual life, Brancato and Panes’ present will depict the gang each working for and in opposition to the Italian crime households in the course of the twentieth century’s penultimate decade. Welliver’s co-stars on The Westies embody J.Ok. Simmons, Tom Brittney, Stanley Morgan, Sarah Bolger, Allen Leech, Hamish Allan-Headly, Vincent Walsh, and Hilary McCormack.
Together with wrapping up his time as Harry Bosch in Bosch: Legacy’s closing season final 12 months, Welliver’s different current TV credit embody recurring/visitor appearances on exhibits like Titans (the place he performed Superman enemy Lex Luthor), The Equalizer, Ballard, and Darkish Winds. On the movie facet of his resume, he appeared on digital camera in 2025 for Ricky and Abraham’s Boys, and the speedy years beforehand noticed him voicing Carmine Falcone and Rorschach within the two-part DC animated films Batman: The Lengthy Halloween and Watchmen, respectively.
The Westies premieres Sunday, July 12 on MGM+. Different upcoming exhibits on the platform embody an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Story of Two Cities, Legacy of Spies, and a remake of The Magnificent Seven. Welliver’s upcoming tasks embody being a collection common in The Evening Agent season 4, in addition to starring reverse Al Pacino and Diego Boneta in Killing Castro, which premiered on the Tribeca Movie Competition on June 9.
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July 12, 2026
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MGM+
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J.Ok. Simmons
Eamon Sweeney
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Tom Brittney
James ‘Jimmy’ Roarke
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Jessica Frances Dukes
Birdie Polk