A milestone she’s not ready to relive. Mariska Hargitay has hit a benchmark that few TV stars ever dream of as her show, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, airs its 500th episode, but she has her reasons for not tuning in.
06.10.2021 - 01:59 / justjared.com
Dick Wolf is opening up about the Law & Order revival.
The creator of the long-running series got candid in an interview with Variety about what to expect from the series.
Here’s what he had to say…
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On the reboot: “This will be Season 21, so it’s the same Law & Order everyone knows from the first 20 years. So there’s really nothing to fix, we just want to continue telling great stories. Casting as always will be three cops and three D.A.s.”
On what makes the show
A milestone she’s not ready to relive. Mariska Hargitay has hit a benchmark that few TV stars ever dream of as her show, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, airs its 500th episode, but she has her reasons for not tuning in.
at the end of season 16, Danny Pino is back, reprising his role as Nick Amaro for the series’ 500th episode, which sees the former detective turning to Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and the SVU team for help clearing a convicted man’s name. Speaking to ET, Pino opened up about his return to the franchise, what he thinks about Amaro’s off-screen evolution, and if this will open the door for more episodes or appearances down the road.
EXCLUSIVE: Chicago P.D. writer/executive producer Gwen Sigan has been promoted to showrunner. She is taking the reins of the long-running NBC series as part of an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, which produces the cop drama.
Just as the the Tampa Bay Buccaneers found themselves victorious with 28-22 points against the Philadelphia Eagles, Fox found itself taking the top primetime spots on Thursday for a second week in a row.
Perhaps Christopher Meloni, 60, is the internet’s favorite “zaddy,” but he’s also a real-life dad, caring for two adorable children, Sophia, 20, and Dante, 17, whom he shares with wife Sherman Williams, 61, a production designer. The pair originally met on the set of a TV show in 1989, as Christopher had just began pursuing an acting career and Sherman was working as a production designer.
We’ll be seeing more of Octavio Pisano on Law & Order: SVU. Pisano, who portrays Detective Joe Velasco, has been promoted to series regular on the NBC procedural.
Anthony Anderson is weighing in on the return of Law & Order.
Last week, NBC announced plans to revive “Law & Order” for a 21st season, more than a decade after cancelling the show in 2020.
The recently greenlighted Season 21 of Dick Wolf’s Law & Order is expected to bring back a number of popular cast members from the Emmy-winning crime drama’s 20-year run on NBC. During an interview with Rachael Ray for an upcoming episode of her syndicated daytime talk show, L&O alum Anthony Anderson revealed that he has been approached about coming back.
Anthony Anderson is fighting for the title of Family Comedian, but it seems like his mom might have him beat! The star and his mother, Doris Bowman, spoke with ET about their new Discovery+ series, the final season of Anderson's ABC series and debated the all-important question: Who is the funnier one in the family?For Bowman, there was no doubt, and she boasted that the rest of the family would agree with her reigning as the funniest.
“It was a good gig,” recalls Law & Order: SVU actress Isabel Gillies of the 12 seasons she played Kathy Stabler on the show. When she returned to the character after a 10 year hiatus, Gillis writes in a substack blog post, something had “seriously changed.”
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeIf broadcast network TV is supposed to be dead, no one told Dick Wolf.
Dick Wolf, the prolific TV producer, is no stranger to success. In fact, he has over 30 years of experience at it.
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran NBC current executive Rebecca McGill has joined Dick Wolf’s NBCUniversal-based Wolf Entertainment as Executive Vice President. Reporting to COO Peter Jankowski, she will have co-executive producer credits on all of Wolf’s scripted series going forward.
In a big night full of premieres for ABC, NBC took the ratings crown with the latest episode of Law & Order: SVU. The latest episode of the NBC drama was the highest-rated program of Thursday primetime, taking in a 0.8 rating in the 18-49 demo and 4.71 million viewers, per fast affiliates. The NBC series was slightly down from last week’s premiere , but slightly outshined the Season 5 debut of Station 19, among others.
Dick Wolf, the original series' return is a «dream come true.»«There are very few things in life that are literally dreams come true,» Wolf said.
One of television’s longest running, most successful dramas is making an unexpected comeback.