NBC announced today that they have renewed Law & Order for season 24 and Law & Order: SVU for season 26, thus bringing their combined total of seasons to 50! And with that, even The Simpsons cannot compete with that, which was just picked up for seasons 37, 38, and 39.
Yesterday, we found out that Octavio Pisano and Juliana Martinez are leaving SVU. I would not be surprised if there will be more departures from both shows.
Believe it or not, NBC had not made a decision on Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, and Chicago PD until today. However, they finally did, and all three shows will be back next season.
However, according to Deadline, we should expect some casting changes due to cost-cutting measures. Who won’t be back? We probably won’t know for a while.
I just hope that Oliver Platt is safe. I hate to say it, but I would be OK with losing the rest.
Chicago Fire has not yet been picked up for another season. However, if it is, two series will not be part of season 14.
Deadline is reporting that Daniel Kyri, who has played Darren since season 7, and Jake Lockett joined the fire procedural as Carver three years ago.
The series could have been setting up Carver’s exit yesterday, but Darren’s still needs to be explained.
Deadline says that their exits are most likely due to cost-cutting, so we could see more from Fire and other NBC series. The older a show, the more expensive it is.
Before Sarah Paulson played a lawyer in The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, she was on trial on Law & Order. She looks the same now as she did when she was 19 in that 1994 episode.
The FBI franchise has had an interesting run on CBS this season. The OG was picked up for three seasons last year. Then, two weeks ago, the network cancelled its two spinoffs FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International.
However, the news was not all bleak for Dick Wolf’s CBS franchise. There were reports that CBS was working on a backdoor pilot for FBI: CIA.
Today, Deadline is reporting that the backdoor pilot is no longer happening because they have not found their leads. Instead of killing the series, they are looking to give it a straight-to-series order. Thus giving them more time to find their stars.
FBI: CIA, whose name is expected to be changed, centers on a dedicated, strait-laced FBI agent and a street-smart CIA agent who are part of a new, clandestine task force charged with solving and preventing domestic terrorism in and around New York City.
If they really wanted to tackle domestic terrorism, they should base the show in DC, specifically 1600 Penn, because there is a lot of that going on there.
