Titus Welliver knows what it’s like to wait for a TV-show pilot’s fate to be decided, but this time around is different: Viewers are among the decision-makers, and he’s the star of the show. Bosch, based on Michael Connelly’s novels about Los Angeles police detective Harry Bosch, is one of two dramas being auditioned by Amazon for a full run. The other, from The X-Files creator Chris Carter, is the supernatural project The After. The episodes have been available free for a month-long window that ends Sunday, with a decision by the online giant likely by the end of March, said Roy Price, director of Amazon Studios. While it’s as nerve-racking as waiting for a decision from broadcast or cable executives, there is a comforting twist, Welliver said. “The difference is that through social media I have a kind of ongoing dialogue with the fans who are really rallying to support the show so it becomes fully realized as a series,” he said. “I can check in with them and say, ‘How are we doing?’” His anxiety with the project started early. The actor, who has built a respected body of work in series such as NYPD Blue, Deadwood and The Good Wife, began to fret over his unfamiliar leading-man responsibilities. It was a friend, Laurence Fishburne, who came to his rescue after Welliver admitted he was concerned about carrying the pilot. Fishburne “kind of laughed and said, ‘It’s what you do, it’s what we do. … You work a few more hours than you usually do, but it’s the same work,’” Welliver recounted.

Fans of Elmore Leonard were among those Thursday who browsed books, furnishings and other contents during an estate sale at the late author’s suburban Detroit home. The three day sale at the home in Oakland County, northwest of Detroit, runs through today. Items include first edition and signed books, furniture, lamps, linens, rugs, garden accessories, outdoor furniture and other items, according to a listing on the website EstateSales.net. Leonard won an honorary National Book Award in 2012, and fans made best-sellers out of pretty much every one of his books since 1985’s Glitz. Hollywood adapted his work into dozens of movies and TV shows, including the films Out of Sight and Get Shorty. Leonard died Aug. 20 at age 87 from complications of a stroke he suffered weeks earlier. The home, where Leonard lived and wrote, is being sold separately.

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