‘Law & Order: For The Defense’ Spinoff From Dick Wolf & Carol Mendelsohn Gets NBC Series Order

CBS has just unveiled a new clip about its upcoming series “FBI: International”, the third series in the franchise that includes the original “FBI” and its spin-off, “FBI: Most Wanted”.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticContinuing the week of networks’ upfront presentations, ViacomCBS released sneak peeks of four new shows to their advertisers and public consumers Wednesday.Although it’s too soon to really assess the shows themselves, that isn’t stopping this critic from weighing in on their potential, based upon these first looks.Here are those thoughts, in rough descending order:“FBI: International”If any further proof was needed that Dick Wolf is in the absolute elite tier of

We’re getting the first look at some of CBS’ new comedy and drama series for the 2021-22 season. The network has released the trailer for its new comedy series Ghosts, starring Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar. We’re also getting a preview of straight-to-series dramas NCIS: Hawai’i, Dick Wolf’s FBI: International and CSI: Vegas with comments from stars, creators and producers. You can read about each and watch below.

It’s going to feel a lot like 2005 on the Big 4 this fall.

After almost 45 years in the business, Dick Wolf has nothing to prove. He has television’s longest-running primetime live-action series with Law & Order: SVU. He is behind more successful broadcast drama franchises than anyone with Law & Order, Chicago and FBI. Yet, he has found another gear with a slew of new series orders over the past year, and he now hit a new milestone — a Dick Wolf franchise lineup on three consecutive nights across two broadcast networks.

My Adventures with Superman, with Jack Quaid lending his voice to the titular hero, has landed a two-season order at HBO Max and Cartoon Network.

NCIS is a series you could set your clock by. For its entire 18-season run to date, the venerable crime drama starring Mark Harmon has had one time slot, always airing Tuesdays at 8 PM.

“At this point, let’s call ABC what it really is, Disney-,” quipped Jimmy Kimmel in a scathing roast of all thing small screen at Disney’s Virtual Upfront.

LOS ANGELES -- Renée Zellweger is coming to network TV next season in a dramatization of a murder case recounted by “Dateline NBC."The two-time Oscar winner's role in NBC's “The Thing About Pam" is a sign of how broadcast networks are banking on eye-catching names and familiar stories to draw viewers in a TV universe increasingly packed with new streaming services.The “Dateline NBC” story about a wrongful conviction was one of the true-crime series most popular sagas, the network said Friday in

, NBC has officially renewed for season 2. Additionally, the network is planning for the two series and to air back-to-back on Thursday nights starting in the fall. According to NBC, fans “will be treated to a triple header,” with kicking off the evening at 8 p.m.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterNBC unveiled a 2021-2022 fall season lineup that will feature a stack of “Law & Order” series on Thursdays — giving producer Dick Wolf two full nights of shows on the schedule — as the network courts audiences with dependable procedurals and nary a comedy until mid-season.Thursday nights this fall mark a real turn from the days of the Peacock network’s must-see comedy blocks: Season 23 of “Law & Order: SVU” will be sandwiched by Wolf’s newest addition to the

SVU spinoff Law & Order: Organized Crime will return for a second season.

NBC has ordered yet another Dick Wolf series, this time in the reality TV genre. The network has greenlit LA Fire and Rescue, a docuseries from the producers of Wolf’s Chicago Fire, that takes a deep dive into the stories of the firefighters in the Los Angeles County Fire Department, who put their lives on the line daily.

Three years after introducing the One Chicago on Wednesday, NBC is adding a Law & Order Thursday lineup, consisting of veteran Law & Order: SVU, rookie Law & Order: Organized Crime, which has been renewed for a second season, and the recently greenlighted Law & Order: For the Defense.

NBCUniversal is going big to prove that cable still has a future in a streaming world.

is halfway through its first season, Christopher Meloni is opening up to ET’s Kevin Frazier about what drew him back to Dick Wolf’s TV universe, where things are headed for Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) following their emotional reunion, and why his butt may need a publicist of its own. When it was first announced that Meloni would be reprising his role as Stabler in an all-new spinoff, it came as a huge surprise to longtime fans of the franchise, especially after the actor

Yaya DaCosta and Torrey DeVitto have taken to Instagram with reactions following news today of their exits from NBC’s Chicago Med after six seasons.

A change at the ED. Chicago Med is losing two of its leading women when it returns for season 7. Torrey DeVitto and Yaya DaCosta, who portray Dr. Natalie Manning and April Sexton, respectively, on the NBC drama, will not be returning, Us Weekly can confirm.

A post shared by MICKEY ROURKE (@mickey_rourke_)Rourke’s praise for the others followed: “Christopher Meloni … the man brings a lot to the table with his physicality … knowing that he had a high level football background explaining it all.” He continued, “I also took notice to the classy and highly talented intense Stephanie March … as well as BD Wong.” Finally, he’s “most surprised, tremendously impressed with the charisma,the attitude and swag and senserity that [Ice-T] brings to his

AMC Networks has given a six-episode series order to Moonhaven, a drama from writer-producer Peter Ocko (Lodge 49, Black Sails) about a utopian colony on the Moon that may hold the keys to preserving life on Earth, which has become increasingly perilous. The series, produced by AMC Studios, is slated to debut on AMC and AMC+ next year.