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Report: NBC To Cancel "Law & Order"

Nightly News came back from a break with that story in a clever way today.

They started at black with just "NBC Nightly News Studio 3C" as a subtitle in the Law & Order font.

Then, they played the Law & Order sting as they faded to Brian.
 
According to what I read in my local paper this morning,
NBC is supposed to announce its 2010-11 schedule Sunday,
but isn't saying whether "Law & Order" is on it. That doesn't
sound promising, and frankly, I think the show's being going
downhill since Jerry Orbach passed away.

At any rate, Dick Wolf got his wish: to tie "Gunsmoke" as the
longest-running drama series in television history.
 
NBC made it official. Law & Order is history!

As far as I am concerned the show hasn't been the same since Jerry Orbach passed away a few years ago.
 
I'd still rather watch a bad "Law & Order" than any other NBC show I can think of without googling.

My bad. "Community" comes on NBC, doesn't it?
 
It is official that "L&O" is canceled, and that the cast and
staff were apparently taken by surprise, since the last new
episode (May 24) will be just another episode, nothing special.
However, NBC is picking up what's already being nicknamed
LOLA: "Law & Order: Los Angeles."

But don't feel badly if you're a fan of the show. How many
fictionalized series have made it to 20 years? I can think of
only two others: "Gunsmoke" and "The Simpsons." That's
pretty elite company.
 
This doesn't surprise me at all. The original Law & Order used to be great, but like many others are saying, it hasn't been the same without Jerry Orbach. I gave the post-Orbach show a fair shot, but the detectives that came along after were never witty like Orbach, and in the last couple seasons have been acting rather "forced" and awkward in their roles.

Law & Order: SVU has been and continues to be my favourite NBC show for the past few years. The cast hasn't changed very much since the beginning.

I hope that Sam Waterston makes some more appearances on SVU, as he is my favorite remaining actor on L&O. I believe he has made one appearance on SVU so far.
 
Wasn't there a rumor around this time last year that Law and Order was on the verge of being cancelled?

I honestly never watched this show until the last few years.
 
landtuna said:
beantownradio25 said:
I honestly never watched this show until the last few years.
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You missed the best seasons. Go back and start from the beginning.
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That's the truth (IMO). And I don't think it's the fault of the newer cast members - they're fine. It's the writing.

In the first 10 or so years, they were very well written straight-forward dramas. I think L&O and the spin-offs are victims of the trends started by CSI - heightened melodrama, science fiction crime solving techniques that don't really exist, the obligatory (and often lame) twist ending, and those fake looking CGI scenes.

I saw an absolutely ridiculous episode of SVU recently: the Russian villain (who was in the exotic animal theft business) was truly a comic book character - he did every cliche villain trick but twirl his mustache and laugh villainously (you know, "moo-hoo-hah-hah-hah")
And there was a laughable fake split-screen scene with Stabler in the room "alone" with a dangerous tiger...only it was so poorly done, you could tell he wasn't.
 
I won't be loosing any sleep over this cancellation one bit. They could cancel all the L&O's and I wouldn't mind. I just can't stand any of them. I do wish all the cast and crew the very best in getting new jobs though.
 
I'm surprised a show with that kind of track record won't have a second life (with new episodes) on another network--though if I think about it, that's probably contractually impossible.

I mean, the programmers and bean counters at TNT/Time Warner--they've got to at least make a polite inquiry, right?
 
Nate Wesley said:
I'm surprised a show with that kind of track record won't have a second life (with new episodes) on another network--though if I think about it, that's probably contractually impossible.

I mean, the programmers and bean counters at TNT/Time Warner--they've got to at least make a polite inquiry, right?
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I heard that Dick Wolf did go to TNT and asked to them carry new episodes, and was turned down. TNT's rights to carry the reruns are up soon, and there's no telling whether or not they'll renew.
 
ShawnHill1 said:
I heard that Dick Wolf did go to TNT and asked to them carry new episodes, and was turned down. TNT's rights to carry the reruns are up soon, and there's no telling whether or not they'll renew.
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Those TNT reruns were terrible! They were twitchy (video) and sometimes cut up. The credits, when they were actually broadcast, zipped by too fast and in very small font while you were bombarded with popups or ads for the next show.

TNT was one reason I dumped subscription TV.
 
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