Law and Order: Search and Destroy

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!!

love it:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/01/the_intercept_by_law_order_creator_dick_wolf_reviewed.html

have been watching so much law and order

so much

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.

huh, i guess it was just season 1 they redid.

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

is jack mccoy supposed to be drunk in his first episode (at the beginning of season 5)?

rey curtis, bleh

is the beginning of season 8 the first episode that starts with a live victim?

unfortunately not in the spreadsheet: http://www.overthinkingit.com/2012/11/13/the-law-and-order-database-all-20-seasons/

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.

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).

don't they also add names for cases that aren't shown?

yeah, often members of the crew or visitors.

i had forgotten how much skoda is just like FUCK IT WHATEVER in comparison to olivet

'don't get weepy on me. i'm not nixon, and you're not ehrlichman.'

I need to start watching the reruns again regularly, the Lenny Episodes were just straight gold.

Stopped caring about SVU a few seasons back.

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

loved corey stoll on the LA spinoff, the rest was iffy

I like that they brought back Connie on LOLA.

that woman really deserved better

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.

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

this show has the best russians

The last few seasons of Law and Order were pretty good.

Ha ha, Jenna Stern retweeted me.