{"id":29509,"date":"2026-06-03T09:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/29509\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:57:42","slug":"eric-overmyer-dead-bosch-creator-treme-co-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/29509\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Overmyer Dead: ‘Bosch’ Creator, ‘Treme’ Co-Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEric Overmyer<\/a>, a veteran TV writer-producer and playwright known for his work on Homicide<\/a>: Life on the Street, Law & Order, The Wire, Treme<\/a>, Bosch<\/a> and Bosch: Legacy, died March 16 after an illness. He was 74.<\/p>\n

\n\tA theater major, Overmyer began his career as a writer on St. Elsewhere. After a string of short-term gigs on various TV series, he joined Homicide: Life on the Street in 1996 for NBC crime drama\u2019s fourth season.<\/p>\n

\n\tOvermyer spent four years on the series, through its seventh and final season, and also co-wrote and executive produced the follow-up Homicide: The Movie. During his time on the show, Overmyer got to work with Homicide writer-producer David Simon, on whose book the series was based.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe two became friends, and Simon subsequently brought Overmyer in as a writer on Season 4 of his acclaimed HBO drama The Wire, which aired in 2006.<\/p>\n

\n\tSimon and Overmyer went on to co-create and executive produce the post-Katrina HBO drama Treme, based in part on Overmyer\u2019s experience living in New Orleans. It aired from 2010-14.<\/p>\n

\n\tOvermyer most recently created for television Bosch, an adaptation of the novels by Michael Connelly. (He is credited as developer of the series since it is based on an existing IP.) Overmyer served as executive producer and showrunner on the police drama starring Titus Welliver, which became Prime Video\u2019s longest-running series, spanning seven seasons.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also co-created and executive produced spinoff series Bosch: Legacy, headlined by Welliver reprising his role, which ran for three seasons from 2014-21.<\/p>\n

\n\tOvermyer\u2019s additional series credits include a four-season run on NBC\u2019s Law & Order, including as an executive producer, and stints on Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and HBO\u2019s Boardwalk Empire. He also co-wrote the 1998 ABC movie Rear Window starring Christopher Reeve and the 2016 Nat Geo miniseries Saints & Strangers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNot only was Eric a superbly talented writer, he was just one of those people everyone loved,\u201d Law & Order creator and franchise boss Dick Wolf said. \u201cWe are all going to miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOvermyer\u2019s work earned him four Emmy nominations, five WGA Award nominations, including a 2016 win for Saints & Strangers, and a Humanitas Prize.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to his TV career, Overmyer was a prolific Off Broadway and regional theater playwright. His stage credits include such well-received Off Broadway productions as On the Verge; or, The Geography of Yearning (1985), In a Pig\u2019s Valise (Second Stage Theater, 1989), Mi Vida Loca (City Center Stage II, 1990), The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin and Louis Chauvin (Playwrights Horizons, 1993) and Dark Rapture (Second Stage Theatre, 1996). In 2000, he contributed additional text for the Broadway production of the musical The Green Bird. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Overmyer, a veteran TV writer-producer and playwright known for his work on Homicide: Life on the Street,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21054],"tags":[5307,28861,2558,3037,21064,28862],"class_list":["post-29509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bosch","tag-bosch","tag-eric-overmyer","tag-homicide","tag-obituary","tag-robert-bosch","tag-treme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}