is the pretty lady ada going to be a blonde or brunette? this is the first i've heard of a LA L&O and frankly it's the only thing i give a shit about atm
― goole, Friday, 30 July 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
skeet ulrich lol
but molina is already a convicted pedophile psychopath, how does that work
― sonderangerbot, Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
whoops
― j., Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
the little sped-up bit of the music at the end of reruns. like a little twist of the tape speed knob. what's with that?― andrew m., Saturday, 19 September 2009 05:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
― andrew m., Saturday, 19 September 2009 05:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
I know EXACTLY what you mean! The theme music goes flat a half-step, just for a second, then corrects itself, then goes a half-step sharp and again corrects itself. What is up with that?? I hear that on other programs too, always at the end of the credits. Some kinda digital-tv bug or something?
― If it cannot be notated, then there is no nute. (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 13 January 2011 08:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"It's like OUR Law & Order—just more British"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE3gMN97TKw
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
season one of law & order sucks ASS. go directly to Orbach. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, August 5, 2004 10:15 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark
I vehemently disagree with this. First season of law and order is compelling and avoids the crowd pleasing monotony of future seasons. Once Dick Wolf discovered that the ratings spiked every time the killer/villain confesses/breaks down at the end, the show became trite and uninteresting.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Just occurred to me when talking with some friends about L&O that the show (any variety) does a shit job at moving characters off the show. Mike Logan's exits on both L&O and CI, the weird "I'm a lesbian and I'm outta here" Rohmbot departure, Lennie's retirement from L&O just so they could add starpower to Trial By Jury—only to have it get canceled a few episodes in (and not too long afterwards, Orbach's death). DAs come and go once Schiff finally left (and Waterson's sexy ADAs change twice as often). Detectives are interchangeable.
The only time they did it right was when they killed Claire, and I guess Benjamin Bratt's exit had a little bit of weight. But everyone else's exit either made no sense or was just *shrug* see ya.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
also WAHT
One of Hennessy's most visible performances was uncredited. In 1995, Jill Hennessy, who played Claire Kincaid on the NBC crime drama Law & Order, made a couple of crossover appearances as Kincaid on another series, Homicide: Life on the Street. During the filming of one of these crossovers, the production schedules of both shows overlapped. As a result, Jacqueline was recruited to play Kincaid in some courtroom scenes filmed for the Law & Order episode "Corpus Delicti," which aired in January 1996.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Hennessy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Hennessy
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 08:15 (thirteen years ago) link
there were a couple homicide/l&o crossovers! the munch from svu is the same much from hlots
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm still wondering who they were going to have be Connie's baby daddy.
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Robinette becoming a DA wasn't an exit per se but was a great "what happened to that guy?" look
― Steven Tyler the Creator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
didn't munch also show up in the wire? but yeah jesse l martin was on the show forever and when he quit he basically just put his stuff in a drawer at the end of an episode and walked out the door.
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I love when Robinette would show up years later as a defense attorney.
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I watched a Season 3 episode last night. Olivet was railing against therapists sleeping with their patients which is really funny since 15 years later it is revealed she slept with Logan.
Added bonus: Lindsay Crouse!!
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Munch: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0004858/
SVU, 30 Rock, Wire, Sesame Street, Arrested Development, Homicide, X-Files...
― koogs, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
but wait:
"Sesame Street"... aka "Open Sesame" - New Zealand (English title) (new syndication title)... aka "Sesame Street Unpaved" - USA (syndication title)... aka "The New Sesame Street" - USA (new syndication title) - Episode #37.1 (2006) TV episode, Played by David Rudman (as Det. John Munch)
= BOGUS MUNCH
― koogs, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Not BONUS MUNCH?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I know that. My amazement was that Jill's twin sister Jacqueline stood in for Claire Kincaid, UNCREDITED, on L&O while Jill was busy with Homicide.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/C8zaF.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
Run that one for ever!
"I am the lawn" ..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/arts/television/chicago-fire-and-the-changing-dick-wolf.html?_r=1&hpw
Since its 1999 debut, “SVU,” the stalwart sex-crimes sibling of the original “Law & Order,” has delivered viewers a predictable, and beloved, formula of whodunit storytelling. Now the creator of the “Law & Order” brand, Dick Wolf — whose name is so tethered to television drama that just hearing it evokes an ominous chung-chung sound in many viewers’ minds — is branching out. He is taking his signature fast-paced realism (or what he calls “trompe l’oeil cinéma vérité”) outside New York to a Chicago firehouse. And unlike his strict procedural style, which gives little character back story, “Chicago Fire“ hinges as much on the messy personal lives of firefighters and paramedics as the fires, car accidents and other calamities they handle.Mr. Wolf’s team calls “Chicago Fire,” which begins Wednesday on NBC, “Dick Wolf 2.0,” a slightly evolved approach for a big-name producer firmly committed to the creative doctrine that made “Law & Order” a billion-dollar property and one of the most lucrative franchises ever on television.But “Law & Order” and its offshoots have taken a hit lately, a product of changing tastes in broadcast television toward character-focused dramas with story lines that stretch from episode to episode. For Mr. Wolf, after decades of prime-time ubiquity, the current television season represents a crossroads. The question is whether he can depart successfully from his formula, especially after his previous prime-time efforts to break with the format, the NBC show “Conviction” and ABC’s “L.A. Dragnet,” didn’t catch on. Early reviews of “Chicago Fire” have been mixed. (The Huffington Post said, “For a show about fire, it lacks any kind of spark.”) That raises the stakes for Mr. Wolf as he pushes into fresh territory unrelated to “the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute offenders.”
Mr. Wolf’s team calls “Chicago Fire,” which begins Wednesday on NBC, “Dick Wolf 2.0,” a slightly evolved approach for a big-name producer firmly committed to the creative doctrine that made “Law & Order” a billion-dollar property and one of the most lucrative franchises ever on television.
But “Law & Order” and its offshoots have taken a hit lately, a product of changing tastes in broadcast television toward character-focused dramas with story lines that stretch from episode to episode. For Mr. Wolf, after decades of prime-time ubiquity, the current television season represents a crossroads. The question is whether he can depart successfully from his formula, especially after his previous prime-time efforts to break with the format, the NBC show “Conviction” and ABC’s “L.A. Dragnet,” didn’t catch on. Early reviews of “Chicago Fire” have been mixed. (The Huffington Post said, “For a show about fire, it lacks any kind of spark.”) That raises the stakes for Mr. Wolf as he pushes into fresh territory unrelated to “the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute offenders.”
― j., Sunday, 7 October 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
Law and Order totally has character back story. SVU has too much!!
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 7 October 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
love it:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/01/the_intercept_by_law_order_creator_dick_wolf_reviewed.html
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
have been watching so much law and order
so much
― iatee, Sunday, 6 January 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
have the earliest seasons been fancied up? i thought i remembered the s01 dvds being fullscreen, but on netflix it's letterboxed now and the quality seems to be better too.
― j., Thursday, 7 February 2013 06:43 (eleven years ago) link
huh, i guess it was just season 1 they redid.
― j., Sunday, 10 February 2013 08:24 (eleven years ago) link
the early seasons have had spotty full widescreen/HD broadcasts on TNT, so at least some of the eps have been upconverted from the original film
― Nhex, Sunday, 10 February 2013 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
is jack mccoy supposed to be drunk in his first episode (at the beginning of season 5)?
― j., Sunday, 24 February 2013 06:59 (eleven years ago) link
rey curtis, bleh
― j., Thursday, 28 February 2013 10:15 (eleven years ago) link
is the beginning of season 8 the first episode that starts with a live victim?
― j., Thursday, 7 March 2013 11:30 (eleven years ago) link
unfortunately not in the spreadsheet: http://www.overthinkingit.com/2012/11/13/the-law-and-order-database-all-20-seasons/
― s.clover, Thursday, 7 March 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
i never looked at that before. i didn't realize that he keeps track of NOTHING.
i started my OWN spreadsheet last year for homicide.xls and it was a monstrous task trying to keep track of even the little i tried to keep track of - the different detectives' cases and the big incidents in their lives / relationships. of course, in the first couple seasons they would routinely be running three separate stories per episode.
L&O spreadsheet should keep track of things like law-time-to-order-time proportion, cases where adam schiff leaves the office, episodes where the crime involves people in the criminal justice system, etc.
― j., Friday, 8 March 2013 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
ha, i had a homicide board spreadsheet where i'd keep a note of all the names that appeared on the board. got kinda messy has i hadn't realised that they flipped the board over for the other shift... (also, episodes were sometimes shown in a different order to the filming order so lists would go up and down).
― koogs, Friday, 8 March 2013 10:06 (eleven years ago) link
don't they also add names for cases that aren't shown?
― j., Friday, 8 March 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, often members of the crew or visitors.
― koogs, Friday, 8 March 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
i had forgotten how much skoda is just like FUCK IT WHATEVER in comparison to olivet
― j., Saturday, 9 March 2013 05:17 (eleven years ago) link
'don't get weepy on me. i'm not nixon, and you're not ehrlichman.'
― j., Friday, 29 March 2013 09:44 (eleven years ago) link
I need to start watching the reruns again regularly, the Lenny Episodes were just straight gold.
Stopped caring about SVU a few seasons back.
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 29 March 2013 10:44 (eleven years ago) link
This is as good a place as any for me to mention that I'm still pissed that the LA spinoff was cut off at the knees
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 29 March 2013 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
loved corey stoll on the LA spinoff, the rest was iffy
― max, Friday, 29 March 2013 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
I like that they brought back Connie on LOLA.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 29 March 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
that woman really deserved better
― Nhex, Friday, 29 March 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
i know the ratings weren't great but c'mon it was a law and order show. given another season i'm sure it would have gotten an audience! i have no idea why they thought they had any remotely better ideas.
― s.clover, Friday, 29 March 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
Bear in mind that was the same year as The Event, The Cape, and Outsourced. The following year they made and cancelled the US remake of Prime Suspect
But I have to admit I kinda hated LOLA, pre- and post-retool. Definitely would've preferred that they NOT cancel the original, the team at that time was pretty decent
― Nhex, Friday, 29 March 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
this show has the best russians
― j., Saturday, 30 March 2013 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
The last few seasons of Law and Order were pretty good.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 30 March 2013 11:33 (eleven years ago) link
Ha ha, Jenna Stern retweeted me.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 31 March 2013 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
they were GREAT
― maura, Sunday, 31 March 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
Somehow I only just noticed Law and Order: UK exists.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 31 March 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link