Law and Order: Search and Destroy

L-O-L-A
Law & Order: LA

A senior executive involved in the production of the show who asked not to be identified said that while the show’s quality had held up, the show’s ratings had not in recent years. “There’s no bigger ‘Law & Order’ junkie than I am,” the executive said, “but we’ve been in almost every Upper East Side apartment in New York and explored all those stories.”

Too bad for everyone else in the place, then.

"I mean, we read that Alexa von Tobel piece and realized that nobody had any money, so we cancelled the show."

bring on L&OLA imo, the episode where they went out there in '99 was lols

― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, May 14, 2010 12:29 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^ so otm. mad jurisdictional wrangling in that, it was a two-parter too.

jurisdictional wrangling is the best part of 90% of cop shows/movies

It also renewed “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” for another season.

boooooo

worst L&O

weird that the article doesn't mention Criminal Intent, is that one still going w/ Goldblum? I only ever catch the reruns of these tbh

jurisdictional wrangling is the best part of 90% of cop shows/movies

huge truthbomb

svu worst L&O

outrageous liebomb

Criminal Intent is on cable.

SVU has this weird Nancy Grace vigilante quality that puts me off. not down with Meloni or Hargitay.

I am super interested in how L&O's cancellation will affect the location fees that NYC businesses charge for rentals.

Criminal Intent is on cable garbage.

fixed

SVU has this weird Nancy Grace vigilante quality that puts me off.

I was watching an SVU rerun and thought they had carried over Criminal Intent's Faith Yancy but no, it was the real Nancy Grace.

Criminal Intent is not so good anymore.

SVU is the worst of the franchise.

My good friend worked at L & O and just lost her job. :(

I loved SVU the most for years and years, but it seems to be rehashing itself these days. Sharon Stone as the new ADA is a small lift, but she can't save it.

I am looking forward to Isabelle Huppert guest starring next week on SVU.

Z S, sorry about your friend :(

so there will still be at least 2 L&Os w/ new episodes?

three more, from glancing at a schedule

hopefully we'll get to see Alana de la Garza in something else soon besides Garnier Nutritioniste advertisements. will Sam Waterston follow Steven Hill in coasting on commercials himself for the rest of his career?

SVU burned out long ago - surprised it's hung around so long with minimal cast turnover - they even brought back Stephanie March for a while right?

SVU will last until there are no more of us who would happily throw ourselves in front of a train if Mariska Hargitay said it might bring her a moment's pleasure, i.e., for a very, very long time

i think they are running two new episodes next week and then the final episode the week after

SVU will last until there are no more of us who would happily throw ourselves in front of a train if Mariska Hargitay said it might bring her a moment's pleasure, i.e., for a very, very long time

tbh, depends on how many trains there are

Q: So Amtrak needs an additional 50 billion dollars in federal funding...why, again?
A: To make more trains.
Q: But the charts you've presented the committee indicate the same downward trend in consumer use of Amtrak that we've all known about for years. Why do you need more trains?
A: For the people who want to kill themselves for Mariska Hargitay.

otm aerosmith. caught the one where benson is off undercover or somesuch (think she was irl pregnant) and stabler had to team up with some other lady detective. it was nearly unwatchable

Last episode tonight. They all meet in a church and there's a dog and etc.

Apparently Terrence Howard has just signed on to be the either the DA or maybe the ADA for Los Angeles.

yea or nay?

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/07/30/terrence-howard-joins-law-order-la/

I guess I hadn't been following closely, though, because I didn't know Skeet Ulrich and Alfred Molina were already attached. I agree with Ausiello. How bout we get some estrogen up in here?

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

skeet ulrich lol

but molina is already a convicted pedophile psychopath, how does that work

whoops

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

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?

"It's like OUR Law & Order—just more British"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE3gMN97TKw

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.

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.

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

there were a couple homicide/l&o crossovers! the munch from svu is the same much from hlots

I'm still wondering who they were going to have be Connie's baby daddy.

Robinette becoming a DA wasn't an exit per se but was a great "what happened to that guy?" look

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.

I love when Robinette would show up years later as a defense attorney.

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!!

Munch: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0004858/

SVU, 30 Rock, Wire, Sesame Street, Arrested Development, Homicide, X-Files...

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

Not BONUS MUNCH?

there were a couple homicide/l&o crossovers! the munch from svu is the same much from hlots

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.

http://i.imgur.com/C8zaF.jpg

Run that one for ever!

"I am the lawn" ..

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.”

Law and Order totally has character back story. SVU has too much!!