Law & Order: Special Victims Unit isn’t going away. The procedural, which turned the longest-running live-action drama this season, simply acquired a three-season pickup from NBC. This implies it will be on the air by Season 24. The TV present will likely be one season away from being sufficiently old to hire a automobile, and that’s really insane on this period of Peak TV.
The three-year renewal deal is NBC’s new favourite trick. It was unprecedented when the community did it final spring for This Is Us, the No. 1 present amongst adults 18-49, nevertheless it shocked everybody by renewing medical drama New Amsterdam for three additional seasons earlier this yr as effectively. Now, Regulation & Order: SVU, together with Dick Wolf‘s Chicago shows, have gotten the identical extension — an funding in expertise that different broadcast networks have not been keen to make.
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“I am gratified and excited that Common will stay our residence for 5 extra years,” Wolf stated in an announcement from NBC. “This new time period deal enhances our not too long ago concluded settlement to make Peacock one of many major locations for each the Regulation & Order and Chicago manufacturers, in addition to our extraordinary three-year NBC broadcast pickups on all 4 present sequence. We are actually supercharged to broaden our enterprise on new platforms, each domestically and internationally, whereas persevering with to provide our present and future sequence for broadcasting and streaming networks.”
We won’t complain. We’re keen to look at Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) take down the scummiest criminals in New York Metropolis till the tip of our days. Cue the Regulation & Order sound impact right here.
Regulation & Order: SVU airs Thursdays at 10/9c on NBC.