‘Law & Order: SVU’ Showrunner’s Exit ‘Was a Surprise to Us All,’ Says Octavio Pisano

, Odelya Halevi joined the franchise as ADA Samantha Maroun opposite Hugh Dancy as ADA Nolan Price and returning alum Sam Waterston as DA Jack McCoy. While speaking to ET, Halevi looks back on joining creator Dick Wolf’s mothership series, what makes her character a standout on the franchise, and why “the stakes are very high” for everyone in the finale. After having grown up watching and always wanting to be a lawyer as a kid, Halevi says her mind was blown when she was offered the part. “It is extraordinary,” she gushes.

Is it fall yet? ABC, CBS and NBC have all announced their TV lineup for the 2022 season — and there are a lot of familiar series for fans to sink their teeth into.

Raymond Lee and Camila Cabello are among the handful of fresh faces on NBC’s upcoming schedule, with the network once again leaning heavily on its “Law & Order” and “Chicago” series franchises.Cabello will join “The Voice” singing contest as a coach, NBC said Monday in announcing its fall schedule. The pop star, whose hit singles include “Havana” and who starred in the 2021 film musical “Cinderella,” will join returning coaches John Legend, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani.Lee stars in “Quantum Leap,” which NBC described as a “reimagining” of the network’s 1989 to 1993 sci-fi drama with Scott Bakula.

CBS freshman How We Roll moved up in ratings, after getting the axe on Thursday.

confirmed to The New York Times.From early roles in ’80s shows “The Equalizer” and “The Whoopee Boys” to his first major part in the short-lived Stanley Tucci cop drama “The Street,” MacVittie had a knack for playing tough, streetwise characters in a variety of films and television shows. He would go on to play memorable guest starring roles in prestige series like “The Deuce,” “Sex and the City” and “When They See Us.”Born Oct.

Bruce MacVittie, a prolific New York stage actor who made his Broadway debut opposite Al Pacino in a 1983 production of David Mamet’s American Buffalo and became familiar to television viewers through roles on The Sopranos, Law & Order and As The World Turns, died May 7 at a hospital in New York City. He was 65.

Christopher Meloni-led  will return for season 3, the network announced Tuesday. They join the previously renewed , which was picked up through season 24.“The iconic  brand has long been synonymous with NBC and we couldn’t be more excited to bring back all three of these dramas for the 2022-23 season,” said Lisa Katz, President of Scripted Programming at NBCU Entertainment and Streaming.

y (Denis Leary) isn’t on the up and up. The series co-stars Danielle Moné Truitt, Ainsley Seiger and Nona Parker Johnson.“The iconic ‘Law & Order’ brand has long been synonymous with NBC and we couldn’t be more excited to bring back all three of these dramas for the 2022-23 season,” said Lisa Katz, President of Scripted Programming at NBCU Entertainment and Streaming.

Both Law & Order and Law & Order: Organized Crime will be back for new seasons. NBC has renewed Law & Order for a 22nd season and spinoff Organized Crime for a third season.

Selome Hailu After a successful return to NBC over a decade after the series’ cancellation, ‘Law & Order’ has been renewed for Season 22. Additionally, spinoff “Law & Order: Organized Crime” will return for its third season.Dick Wolf’s beloved procedural drama originally premiered on NBC in 1990 and ran for 20 seasons until its cancellation in 2010.

After a weeks-long break, ABC’s Station 19 and Grey’s Anatomy returned to Thursday primetime with new episodes. With its first new episode since April 8, Grey’s Anatomy tied with Law & Order: SVU for the evening’s highest demo rating.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeI can almost guarantee that the Oscars would have handled the Slap better had a seasoned TV awards show producer been in charge. (Thank goodness for veteran director Glenn Weiss, but he didn’t call the final shots.) And while AMPAS tears up its Oscars playbook every year, ABC has limited say in bringing on an experienced producer who could at least steady the ship.

“The Lost One” episode of “Law & Order: Organized Crime” airs 10 p.m. PT/ET, Thursday, May 5 on NBC. The season finale of “Law & Order: SVU” airs 9 p.m. PT/ET Thursday, May 19 on NBC.

The man who attacked Dave Chappelle during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday will not face felony charges despite carrying a replica pistol with a folding knife blade affixed to it. Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón’s office declined Thursday to file felony charges against Isaiah Lee, 23, who was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after he tackled Chappelle.

is wrapping up its comeback season with three all-new episodes as it ramps up the “tension between the police department and the district attorney’s office,” says showrunner Rick Eid, adding that it’s all about the characters asking themselves, “What hard choices do you make? What are you willing to live with? What are your principles?” While speaking to ET, the boss of creator Dick Wolf’s mothership series breaks down season 21’s ripped-from-the-headlines episodes, teases the upcoming finale’s mini crossover with and shares plans for what comes next.  Led by returning stars Sam Waterston as District Attorney Jack McCoy and Anthony Anderson as Det.

Warren Leight is leaving Law & Order: SVU after serving as an executive producer and showrunner on the venerable NBC crime drama for the past three seasons. It was his second stint at the helm of the Wolf Entertainment series.

Kelly Lee Owens has shared a further preview of her imminent new album ‘LP.8’ – hear ‘One’ below.The producer and musician will release the follow-up to August 2020’s ‘Inner Song’ digitally this Friday (April 29) before a physical release follows on June 10 via Smalltown Supersound.Last month, the album was announced alongside the release of two new tracks, ‘Sonic 8’ and ‘Olga’.New four-minute song ‘One’ is an eerie cut in which Owens repeats the line: “You are the one.” Watch the visualiser for the new track below.‘LP.8’, as a press release explains, was “born out of a series of studio sessions” in Oslo and “created with no preconceptions or expectations: an unbridled exploration into the creative subconscious”.The record was made along with the avant-noise artist Lasse Marhaug, who has previously worked with the likes of Merzbow, Sunn O))) and Jenny Hval, and inspired by such artists as Throbbing Gristle and Enya.“For me, ‘8’ meant completion – an album that will ripple infinitely with me personally,” Owens has said of ‘LP.8’.Kelly Lee Owens is set to tour in the UK, Europe and Australia this summer – you can see her upcoming live dates below, and find UK tickets here.