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Posted: 4/28/06 at 2:21am
Good news for the L&O Junkies on the Board. All three shows are returning for next season - Yeah. More Jesse, More Chris, More Mariska, More Kathryn and More Vincent!
"Law & Order will remain as ubiquitous as ever next season.
NBC announced Thursday that it has re-upped the three main cop-and-lawyer warhorses in its Dick Wolf-manned arsenal--Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; and Law & Order: Criminal Intent--for the 2006-07 season.
The Emmy-winning original has been serving up justice in a neatly partitioned hour for 16 seasons now, although in the past couple years it's slipped to second in popularity behind the sex crimes-solving spin-off, SVU, which is now in its seventh season and attracting about 13.9 million viewers a week to plain-ol' Law & Order's 11.1 million. The five-year-old Criminal Intent draws a weekly average of 10.9 million people anxious to check out Vincent D'Onofrio's uncanny intuition and Chris Noth's craggy skepticism.
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Meanwhile, the tension (sexual, professional, brother-sister--take your pick) between Det. Olivia Benson (Golden Globe winner Mariska Hargitay) and Det. Elliot Stabler ( Christopher Meloni) has seemingly reached the boiling point on SVU and we last saw Olivia requesting a new partner. But, no word of any shifts in the lineup for next season, so it appears that the special-victims crew will get it together before anyone is forced to say, "I quit."
L&O Keeps on Chugging
"Law & Order will remain as ubiquitous as ever next season.
NBC announced Thursday that it has re-upped the three main cop-and-lawyer warhorses in its Dick Wolf-manned arsenal--Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; and Law & Order: Criminal Intent--for the 2006-07 season.
The Emmy-winning original has been serving up justice in a neatly partitioned hour for 16 seasons now, although in the past couple years it's slipped to second in popularity behind the sex crimes-solving spin-off, SVU, which is now in its seventh season and attracting about 13.9 million viewers a week to plain-ol' Law & Order's 11.1 million. The five-year-old Criminal Intent draws a weekly average of 10.9 million people anxious to check out Vincent D'Onofrio's uncanny intuition and Chris Noth's craggy skepticism.
. . .
Meanwhile, the tension (sexual, professional, brother-sister--take your pick) between Det. Olivia Benson (Golden Globe winner Mariska Hargitay) and Det. Elliot Stabler ( Christopher Meloni) has seemingly reached the boiling point on SVU and we last saw Olivia requesting a new partner. But, no word of any shifts in the lineup for next season, so it appears that the special-victims crew will get it together before anyone is forced to say, "I quit."
L&O Keeps on Chugging
