'Law & Order: SVU' Star Danny Pino on Returning for the 500th Episode (Exclusive)

The one that started it all! Law & Order premiered in 1990 and helped make creator Dick Wolf one the biggest names in television — and the revival is only going to make his legacy that much greater.

Jeffrey Donovan has been cast as the lead of NBC’s revival of. While no details have been released about his character, the former star will play a NYPD detective, when the crime procedural returns for season 21.

The new Law & Order revival has found its first cast member.

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

Emmerdale star Danny Miller has announced the birth of his first child with a sweet photo. Danny and his fiancée, Steph, both shared adorable messages following the birth, which they announced on Wednesday (October 27) on social media.

EXCLUSIVE: Grammy winners Roddy Ricch (“The Box”), Ella Mai (“Boo’d Up”) and Macy Gracy (“I Try”) have signed on to star in the animated feature, Sneaks, with five-time nominee Swae Lee (“Sunflower”) and NBA All-Star Chris Paul also joining the cast.

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.

Teddy Roosevelt was known for so many indelible traits — including his toothy smile.So Aidan Quinn, who plays him in “The American Guest,” made Roosevelt’s choppers a priority when getting into character for the HBO Max series, shot on location in Brazil and in the Amazon jungle.“One of the first things I was insistent on with [director] Bruno [Barreto] — I kept looking at pictures and watching videos and looking at photos of him smiling and laughing — was that we find a dentist to help make me

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.