‘Law & Order: SVU’: Octavio Pisano Upped To Series Regular On NBC Drama Series

EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Dewan has been promoted to series regular for the current fourth season of ABC cop drama The Rookie.

which first reported the news. The series, which NBC surprisingly renewed for a 21st season in September, will pick up where it left off, when it was abruptly canceled in 2010.

Former Burn Notice star Jeffrey Donovan has been tapped as a lead in NBC’s upcoming Law & Order revival. He will play a new character, an NYPD detective, on Season 21 of Dick Wolf’s venerable crime drama. Along with a couple of high-profile new cast additions, led by Donovan, the new season is expected to feature several Law & Order alums, with Sam Waterston and Anthony Anderson believed to be in talks to return.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe “Law & Order” revival at NBC has cast Jeffrey Donovan in a lead role, Variety has learned.Details are under wraps as to the nature of Donovan’s character on the show, other than the fact that he will be playing an NYPD detective.It was announced in September that the hit procedural would be returning to NBC for what will be its 21st season after the show originally ended in 2010 after over 450 episodes.Donovan is best known for his starring role in the USA Network

Oscar-winner Kate Winslet (“The Reader“) was previously attached to film project based on the life of Vogue cover model turned wartime photojournalist Lee Miller, who helped spotlight the Holocaust atrocities against Jews committed by the Nazis during WWIII that had been hidden away from the front lines in evil concentration camps from the rest of the world.

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: Diany Rodriguez (Law & Order: Organized Crime) has joined the upcoming ninth season of NBC’s long-running drama series The Blacklist in a heavily recurring role.

EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Lee Curtis revealed to us on today’s Hero Nation that while she’s not expecting a third season of Scream Queens, she is reteaming with that series co-creator Ryan Murphy on a new Netflix limited series tentatively titled Outfielder. 

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. 

EXCLUSIVE: Soul Food alumna Vanessa Estelle Williams has joined the Season 5 cast of Fox drama series 9-1-1 in a heavily recurring role.

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.

Larenz Tate, who recurred in Season 1 of Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost, has been promoted to series regular for the upcoming second season of the spinoff series. Tate, an original cast member on the mothership series Power, portrays New York City Councilman Rashad Tate.

“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.”

EXCLUSIVE: Azita Ghanizada will return for season 2 of United States of Al and has been upped to series regular.

EXCLUSIVE: We’ll be seeing more of JJ Parker on the upcoming season of CW’s All American. Hunter Clowdus, who has recurred on the character since the first season, has been promoted to series regular for the upcoming fourth season.

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.