Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Richard Belzer, who stars on NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," slammed his network this afternoon at TV Press Tour for stripping Jay Leno's talk show across five hours of primetime in the fall 2009 season. Belzer hypothesized NBC couldn't punish him for speaking his mind sin...

Moreover, NBC has suffered slumping primetime ratings for years, and has been looking for ways to cut costs. Leno's show is far less expensive to produce than an hour of scripted programming, and with it now responsible for nearly a quarter of NBC's primetime schedule, the network can foc...

Mariska Hargitay is the highest-paid actress, pulling down $400,000 per episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." Another TV cop, "The Closer's" Kyra Sedgwick, earns the most among cable stars, at $275,000 per episode. Memo to aspiring actresses: Get an exotic-sounding name...

“ER:” Thursday, April 10 (wording in the press release – “new episodes following the complete run of ‘Lipstick Jungle’” – suggest that show’s already toast) “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:” Tuesday, April 15 “Law & Order:” Wednesday, April 23

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Well, someone at “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” must be going through a messy divorce and getting taken by his wife: Tomorrow night’s episode involves an unfaithful wife and a man (Mark Valley) who doesn’t know his son actually isn’t. Another character even gets to rail, briefly...

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