In June, David Graziano was given the keys to one of the most valuable fiefdoms in television when he was named showrunner of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ahead of the NBC drama’s record-setting 24th season. But trouble was brewing behind the scenes. Not long after Graziano took the helm of SVU, the show’s script coordinator — who works closely with the show’s writers — quit. After the position was posted on a listserv that circulates widely among script coordinators, it triggered warnings from other individuals who had previously worked with Graziano.
The network hands out three-year renewals to the prolific producer for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and his three Chicago series as part of a new five-year deal to keep his Wolf Entertainment production company at Universal Television.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit‘s 21st season launch makes it the longest running primetime live-action series in U.S. TV history and will finally fulfill a goal that eluded show creator Dick Wolf nine years ago with the original Law & Order.
NBC has renewed Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for a record-setting 21st season, making the show the longest-running live-action primetime series in American TV history. The series will surpass the record of 20 seasons currently held by its parent show, Law & Order (1990-2010) and CBS’s Gunsmoke (1955-75). (The Simpsons remains the all-time leader for any primetime show in both seasons at 30, with two more to come, and episodes, currently at 657.)
Exclusives
Episodes of three of the network’s dramas, Chicago Fire, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Chicago P.D., will share a story line about an effort to crack a child pornography ring.
Law & Order: SVU will return for a 14th season, while Dick Wolf’s Chicago Fire stars The Vampire Diaries‘ Taylor Kinney and House‘s Jesse Spencer.
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