Law & Order

By Allison Waldman More good news out of NBC's top drama. Wentworth Miller is guesting on Law and Order: SVU, and this time he's not going to be behind bars. The Prison Break actor will star in the September 23 premiere of Law and Order: SVU, which is kicking off its 11th season on the NBC.

By Allison Waldman Well, that's a relief. After months of speculation that NBC would be bringing Law & Order: SVU back for the 11th season without the two stars that have anchored the show, there's good news. Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni have re-signed with SVU. They pair agreed to stick with NB...

By Nick Zaino So far, not so good. Last night's episode, which tried to weave together the stories of a washed-up celebrity chef, a hip hop mogul, and a flighty socialite, still didn't provide the punch I was hoping for. It was better than most of his episodes so far - and a good deal better than his first epis...

By Allison Waldman If Jay Leno isn't the answer for NBC prime time, perhaps the network should think about booking President Obama. NBC News devoted two hours, on Tuesday and Wednesday night, for Inside the Obama White House and the ratings were strong. Better than the insipid I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here...

Perfect. Beautiful. That line was delivered by Carol Kane to Richard Belzer on last night's season finale of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. A bit of history. Kane played Gwen Munch, the conspiracy-minded ex-wife of Belzer's Detective John Munch. ...

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By Nick Zaino A plea to those writing one-hour television dramas - please stop writing scripts that feature musicians trying to "make it" as rock or hip hop stars. Writing as someone who covers music, as a friend of musicians, and at some lowly level a musician myself, it's almost always painful to watch...

By Allison Waldman Filed under: Law and Order, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free It's not as strong as it once was, but what show is on NBC? It would have been network hari-kari to let SVU hit the road.Continue reading NBC commits to more Law & Order SVU

By Mike Moody Peterson's decision to say goodbye to CSI was one of the big stories of 2008. The actor's onscreen phase-out started earlier this month with the introduction of Laurence Fishburne as Dr. Raymond Langston, but he's not really saying goodbye. Peterson will remain on the hit CBS show as an exec...

By Allison Waldman Filed under: Law and Order, Reality-FreeThis is a bummer. (By the way, isn't there a better expression than that to describe disappointment? "What a shame" is just too British to me.) Anyway, TV Guide's Michael Ausiello reports that Law & Order: SVU has lost Diane Neal. The actress, who...

By Jason Hughes In the end, both got picked up, sort of. Criminal Intent was relegated to USA instead of NBC for its first run. But on January 10, when L&O settles back into its old time slot, it's new lead-in is going to be the broadcast network premiere of those USA CI episodes. If NBC needs more filler, we c...

By Paul Goebel Filed under: Law and Order, Ask TV Squad, Celebrities Here is a question I got this week from a fan who was trying to stump me... Before he was on Law & Order: SVU, what show was Ice T on that was also created by Dick Wolf?" Continue reading Stump the King - Dick Wolf

By Joel Keller Filed under: Drama, Law & Order, CelebritiesIf you spend any time in New York City, you'll notice that a lot of the streets have two names, the actual name and the ceremonial name. Stretches of NYC streets are named after Peter Jennings, Humphrey Bogart, and Joey Ramone, among others. S...

By Anna Johns Filed under: Drama, NBC, OpEd, Law & Order(S08E16) For the most part, I really enjoyed this episode. I liked how the two storylines intertwined- with Liv's search for her brother having an impact on her ability to do her job. What I didn't like was the third storyline of Olivia and Elliot...

By Anna Johns Filed under: Drama, NBC, OpEd, Law & Order(S08E15) Even though the disclaimer at the beginning of this episode said "The following story is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event", we all know who L&O writers are taking a shot at here. It's Nancy "Everyone is Alwa...

By Anna Johns S08E14) Just like last week, this episode took a complete turn a little more than halfway through. I felt pretty unhappy with the ending because, once again, it seemed rushed. An entire murder investigation was wrapped up extremely quickly and then another storyline was opened with Ellio...

By Anna Johns And, how unusual was this episode? The first 40 minutes had us thinking the detectives were investigating their usual child porn case, but then suddenly Olivia passes out?!? That's when the episode takes a turn from child porn to a much headier subject of chemical companies testing thei...

By Anna Johns Both actors had a hell of a lot of bargaining power in their contract negotiations. That show delivers consistently strong ratings for NBC and it absolutely would not be the same without Dets. Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler (Think: The X-Files without Mulder and Scully). Let's hope the ne...

By Anna Johns Belzervizion is quite funny-- for those of you who don't know, Richard Belzer is a comedian. He just happens to have played a cop on television for years. In the first episode, Belzer talks about how he helps co-star Ice-T with his rap music and Ice-T gives his own take on Belzer's musical skil...

By Joel Keller In other news, Reilly announced the pickup of a new improv pilot called Thank God You're Here, where improv comics will don a costume unknown to them, enter a scene, and attempt to improvise through it. It will be hosted by David Alan Grier, and the improv comic's skills will be "judged" by Da...

By Anna Johns Filed under: Drama, NBC, Law & Order(S08E11) Boy howdy, things sure are tense between Dets. Benson and Stabler. I thought their issues were in the past, but they never really can be, can they? Stabler immediately pushed Benson's buttons in this episode when he suggested that a man who i...

By Richard Keller LaSalle will be reunited with SVU cast member Mariska Hargitay, who portrayed Cynthia Hooper during the fourth season of ER, and Michael Michele, who played Doctor Cleo Finch (and Benton's girlfriend) for two seasons on the medical drama. In the episode itself, which will air January 9t...

By Anna Johns Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Law and Order(S08E09) I can't decide what I liked better about this episode-- Bob Saget or the return of Mariska Hargitay. Det. Olivia Benson comfortably slipped back in to being Det. Elliot Stabler's partner without much fanfare. No fanfare, real...

By Anna Johns In fact, Det. Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) only got about a minute of screen time. She walked into the squad room, met Det. Dani Beck (Connie Nielsen) and then told Captain Cragen (Dann Florak) that she was back. Now, why didn't Cragen know that? He gave some bullshit line about his contact...

By Adam Finley At least, they have a whole lot of Law and Order: SVU and Law and Order: CI. You'll have to click over to TNT to catch repeats of the original Law and Order. Starting September 11, the USA network will devote thirty-five hours a week to those two spin-offs, which according to the New York Post is a...

By Richard Keller Meanwhile, a bit north of Turkey in the small country of Russia, production company 2V and Global American Television (GATV) have announced that they will co-produce Russian formatted versions of Dick Wolf's Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: SVU. According to the pr...

By Richard Keller S07E22) Well, here we are at the end of the seventh season of SVU and we delve into familiar territory; teenage sexual activity. We also focus one more time on Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) who has a good portion of screen time this episode (although A.D.A. Casey Novak (Diane Neal) has some d...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: NBC, Industry, Programming, Las Vegas, Law & Order, Medium, Scrubs, My Name Is Earl, The OfficeNBC released its fall 2006 schedule today, and while there are many predictable comings and goings, there are a couple of surprises too:

By Adam Finley Dick "Law and Order" Wolf has a new show coming up midseason, called Conviction, but it won't be another part of the Law and Order franchise. NBC, while it has benefited greatly from Wolf and Law and Order, was quick to scrap Law and Order: Trial By Jury when it didn't catch on right away. The ne...