NBC premieres Law & Order: Organized Crime on April 1 in a two-hour crossover reuniting Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay
Christopher Meloni’s Elliot Stabler will reunite with Mariska Hargitay’s Oliska Benson almost a decade after leaving Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
NBC premiered on April 1 for the new spin-off Law & Order: Organized Crime, which will bring Elliot Stabler back to New York.
The premiere will be part of a two-hour crossover with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, with SVU at 9pm and organized crime at 10pm.
Stabler Returns: Nearly a Decade After Leaving Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Christopher Meloni’s Ellopher Stabler will finally reunite with Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson
Spin-off: NBC premieres April 1 for the new spin-off Law & Order: Organized Crime, which will bring Elliot Stabler back to New York City
Crossover: The premiere will be part of a two-hour crossover featuring Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, with SVU at 9pm and organized crime at 10pm.
Law & Order: Organized crime will follow Stabler when he returns to the New York Police Department to run his organized crime division.
Stabler returns to the NYPD after suffering a “devastating personal loss”, which he is trying to “rebuild his life.
Part of its ‘reconstruction’ will include the formation of an ‘elite task force’ that will dismantle the city’s most powerful criminal syndicates one by one. ‘
Big loss: Stabler returns to the NYPD after suffering a ‘devastating personal loss’ while trying to ‘rebuild his life’
Meloni will play alongside Dylan McDermott and Tamara Taylor, although no details are given about their characters.
Law & Order: Organized Crime was created by Dick Wolf, who will do executive production with Ilene Chaiken, Terry Miller, Fred Berner, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski.
The show was originally announced in late March 2020, and it was originally slated to debut this fall, although a number of complications have arisen.
Complications: The show was originally announced in late March 2020, and it was originally slated to make its debut this fall, although a number of complications arise
Back in October, spectacle winner Matt Olmstead left the show amid creative challenges, shifting the performance off the fall roster.
The network announced in December that The creator of The L Word, Ilene Chaiken, had come on board to act as showrunner after serving as showrunner in Empire.
McDermott joined the cast last week with Taylor coming on board this week, though it is unclear when production will begin.
Law & Order: Organized Crime was created by Dick Wolf, who will do executive production with Ilene Chaiken, Terry Miller, Fred Berner, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski.
Organized: Law & Order: Organized Crime was created by Dick Wolf, who will co-produce executive products with Ilene Chaiken, Terry Miller, Fred Berner, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski.
Meloni played with Hargitay on SVU from the beginning in 1999, with the detectives making them one of the most dynamic duos on television.
SVU is now in its 22nd season, the longest live-action primetime program in television history.
NBC and Dick Wolf Productions signed a new five-year deal in February 2020 that included unprecedented three-season renewals for SVU, along with Wolf’s trio Windy City shows – Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Chicago Med.
SVU crew: SVU is now in its 22nd season, the longest live-action primetime program in television history