'Law & Order' Season 22 - Five Stars Confirmed to Return, One Leaving, One Actor Joining Main Cast!

Mariska Hargitay just shared an epic throwback pic of her and Christopher Meloni. On Wednesday, the star posted a photo of her and her co-star on Twitter looking very different from their characters. The tweet quickly garnered over 35,000 likes, with several thousand retweets and responses, with the official Twitter account writing, “Thank you for this!”pic.twitter.com/324Mm3KsAJthank you for this!While the two actors initially shared the screen on from 1999 to 2011, they have garnered renewed interest in their on-and-off screen dynamic ever since Meloni returned to the franchise to star on . Since the spinoff’s premiere in 2021, Meloni and Hargitay have gushed about reuniting onscreen and working together for several decades. “You know, when Chris left, I knew he would be back.

David Graziano, who took over as showrunner from Warren Leight, was also a big fan of the “Rollisi” pairing, he told TheWrap before the season premiere. In August, when the news of her departure first broke, Giddish said in a statement, “Playing Rollins has been one of the greatest joys and privileges of my life.

Emily Longeretta Kelli Giddish’s “Law & Order: SVU” exit is coming soon. The actor’s last appearance will be on Dec. 8, Variety confirms. Additionally, she will make a guest appearance on spinoff “Law & Order: Organized Crime” later this season. Giddish joined the Dick Wolf series in 2011, starring alongside Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T and Peter Scanavino. Her character, Amanda Rollins, entered a romantic relationship with Scanavino’s Carisi at the end of last season. In the Season 24 premiere, Rollins was shot saving a young girl. She ultimately survived and was forced to attend therapy.

“Stevie, stick to writing fascist speeches,” Law & Order: Organized Crime star Christopher Meloni wrote to former Trump White House Director of Speechwriting Stephen Miller today on Twitter. Earlier Miller, who allegedly helped write Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 speech, had called the actor “the guy with the most unwatchable Law & Order spin-off” and “a very angry — and very ignorant — far-left ideologue” for making fun of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO).

Zack Sharf Christopher Meloni and former Donald Trump advisor and speechwriter Stephen Miller engaged in a war of words on Twitter that ended with the “Law & Order” favorite telling Miller, “Stick to writing fascist speeches.” It all started when Meloni reacted to Lauren Boebert’s latest “Let’s go Brandon!” post. The phrase is commonly used in Republican circles as an insult to Joe Biden. As the Associated Press reported in 2021, the term is “conservative code for something far more vulgar: ‘Fuck Joe Biden.'” “There’s gotta be a Stupid Prize gop reps are competing for,” Meloni tweeted at Boebert, a Republican gun activist who serves as the U.S. representative for Colorado’s 3rd congressional district. Boebert once wore a dress with “Let’s go Brandon” printed on it and posed with Trump for a photo.

Paramount+ today debuted the official mid-season trailer for season one of its original animated kids’ series, Star Trek: Prodigy. The trailer was introduced by executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman, during the “Star Trek” universe panel at New York Comic Con.

EJ Panaligan editor The fifth season of “Inside Amy Schumer” has its official trailer, which Paramount+ released today (October 6th). The first two episodes of the season are set to premiere on the service Thursday, Oct. 20, with the remaining three episodes dropping weekly afterward. In addition to Schumer, the new season features Amber Tamblyn, Bridget Everett, Cara Delevinge, Chris Parnell, Ellie Kemper, Jesse Williams, Laura Benanti, Michael Ian Black, Olivia Munn and Tim Meadows, and returning writers Christine Nangle, Tami Sagher, Jon Glaser and Jeremy Beiler. Meadows, Derek Gaines, Jaye McBride and Georgie Aldaco also join the writing staff this season.

Selome Hailu NBC’s three-hour “Law & Order” crossover premiere event was the most-watched and highest-rated program the night that it aired, according to Live + 3 data exclusively obtained by Variety. Airing from 8-11 p.m. on Sept 22, the crossover marked the premiere of Season 22 of the “Law & Order” flagship series, Season 24 of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and Season 3 of “Law & Order: Organized Crime.” When accounting for three days of viewing, each of the three season premieres matched or exceeded the average rating and total viewership of the last four episodes of their previous seasons, respectively. “Law & Order,” which concluded the crossover at 10 p.m., landed a 1.0 rating in the key adults 18-49 demographic and 6.8 million total viewers through three days of measurement — the best performance of a “Law & Order” episode since Season 21 debuted in February. Compared to Episodes 7-10 of “Law & Order” Season 21, the series’ four previous episodes, this marks a 36% increase in rating and a 20% increase in total viewership.

Saturday Night Live’s Season 48 opener was all about change.

Law & Order: SVU star Ice-T has shared his heartbreak after learning of the sudden death of his friend and fellow rapper Coolio.MORE: Is Law & Order: SVU star Ice-T leaving the show? Here's what we knowThe actor – who plays Sergeant Odafin Tutuola – took to Twitter shortly after the news of Coolio's death was revealed on Wednesday. The late rapper died aged 59 from a suspected cardiac arrest, although a cause of death has not yet been determined.WATCH: Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay shares health update following horror injuryIce-T first shared his disbelief, retweeting a news post and captioning it: "Holly [expletive]!!! I was just talking to him two weeks ago! He was performing in Europe...

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Selome Hailu Three of Dick Wolf’s franchises — “Law & Order,” “One Chicago” and “FBI” — were the most-viewed broadcast series of their respective season premiere nights on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. en they premiered. “FBI” brought in 6.8 million viewers while airing its Season 5 premiere on CBS at 8 p.m. Tuesday night, making it the most-watched broadcast series of the week excluding sports programming. The Season 2 premiere of “FBI: International” followed at 9 p.m. and was the second-most-watched program of the night with 5.3 million viewers. The last Wolf premiere of the night was “FBI: Most Wanted” Season 4 at 10 p.m., bringing in 5.1 million viewers, a time period high.

crossover event, uniting all three NBC series, Mehcad Brooks will make his debut as Det. Jalen Shaw. The 41-year-old actor, who previously appeared on a 2011 episode of, is ’s newest addition, replacing Anthony Anderson, who left the revival after one season. “It’s a dream come true in so many ways,” Brooks tells ET’s Rachel Smith about joining the franchise full time.

#JonathanBailey #Wicked https://t.co/meT51cGqDeFiyero has been played by Norbert Leo Butz, Aaron Tveit, Taye Diggs and Adam Lambert in various productions.Universal had no comment. A rep for Bailey didn’t immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.Chu recently announced that “Wicked” would be split into two films released over Christmas 2024 and 2025, saying it would be “impossible to wrestle” the story of “Wicked” into a single movie.Written by Winnie Holzman, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, “Wicked” has continuously been in production since 2003 and is the 11th longest-running Broadway show of all time.

Mariska Hargitay is gearing up for her 24th season of “Law & Order: SVU”, but it’ll be a bittersweet one as she prepares to say goodbye to co-star Kelli Giddish.

Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni step out for the Law & Order franchise premiere event held at Capitale on Monday (September 19) in New York City.

Mariska Hargitay is gearing up for her 24th season of , but it'll be a bittersweet one as she prepares to say goodbye to co-star Kelli Giddish. Giddish announced her exit from the NBC procedural in August, confirming that she would be leaving as a full-time cast member during the upcoming season. The actress joined as Detective Amanda Rollins at the start of season 13 alongside Danny Pino following Chris Meloni’s unexpected departure at the end of season 12.

Actress Mariska Hargitay joked about being her longtime "Law & Order" co-star Chris Meloni's "second wife" on Monday at the red carpet for the beloved show's 24th season. Mariska Hargitay stars as Detective Olivia Benson on "Law & Order: SVU" (Will Hart/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images) "I mean, I don't think I'll be marrying him any time soon, but I am kind of like his second wife," she told People. "Wife, therapist, bestie, sister, mother." The jokes came in response to Hargitay being accidentally listed as Meloni's wife on the actor's Wikipedia page.

Ice-T is all for Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) to finally get together. While attending the season premiere event of at Capitale in New York City, the 64-year-old actor and rapper, who has played Detective Fin Tutuola alongside Detective Benson almost since the beginning of , opened up to ET's Rachel Smith about the constant will-they-won't-they between Benson and Stabler.«I don't see why not,» he tells ET of the friends finally getting together.Though Stabler was previously married to his wife, Kathy, she died when Meloni returned to the franchise with his new spin-off, . «I thought it was kind of odd earlier because Chris was married, but then Chris' wife died,» Ice-T says of a potential Stabler/Benson romance.