NBC has cancelled Law & Order one season short of breaking Gunsmoke’s 20 season record according. The show that launched 4 spinoffs will be signing off after being on TV for 20 years. But before you fans of Law & Order get too upset, the death of Law & Order gives way to birth of Law & Order: Los Angeles because G-d forbid NBC only have one L&O on their air. The Live Feed got this statement from the father of the Law & Orders about the cancellations.
Since the May 24 finale has already been shot, the final episode won’t provide much closure to fans. Sources say NBC and Wolf plan to meet after the upfronts to discuss possible “closure opportunities” for the show, possibly having characters from “L&O” appear on the “Los Angeles” spinoff, or even having a two-hour wrap-up movie.
Hopefully NBC will give this long running show the goodbye it deserves.
UPDATE: NBC has also pulled the plug on Mercy according to The Live Feed. I liked this show, but the cancellation is not a surprise because of its declining ratings. Hopefully the end of Mercy means that Trauma will be back, but I highly doubt it.
Jay Leno isn’t the only guy vacating NBC’s 10p timeslot because Chris Meloni told Australia’s Courier Mail that this will be his last season according to Watch with Kristin. He said, “I think 12 years is enough, a good number…The writers will have fertile ground to figure out how to arc [Elliot Stabler] out to another place—whether it’s this world or the next.” His partner Mariska Hargitay said she is planning on staying with the hit NBC show.
So do you think SVU will be the same without Stabler? I don’t having Benson with Stabler won’t be the same for me. No word if Ice-T is thinking of icing the show?
xoxo Apres!
I guess Law & Order is still on the air because they are doing an episode based on Heath Ledger's death according to Page Six.
A series insider reports an upcoming plot is "supposed to be about Heath Ledger" and features a male supermodel, played by Ryan Locke, who "has a great career and gets all the ladies." Perhaps the eeriest comparison is to Ledger's actual death by overdose when the character "leaves a club with a girl. They have sex and do drugs, and the next morning, his friend finds him dead."
Doesn't really sound like how Heath Ledger died, but I guess the show will do anything for ratings (because they desperately need them) like capitalizing on Heath Ledger's death.That is on must-not-watch list, not like I have watched the show in all the decades it has been on.
Law & Order: SVU got a major guest for their 200th episode according to Michael Ausiello.
The Oscar winner will play a Svengali-like figure who tests Benson and Stabler like never before.
Exec producer Neal Baer says the episode is "one of the best cat and mouse stories we've ever done," and describes Williams' character as "a guy who has a problem with authority figures." Adds Mariska Hargitay: "He is one of these charismatic human beings that has uncanny power over people to get them to do what he wants."
I am not a huge fan, but I am checking out the April 29th episode on NBC to see him on it!
File this under people need to get a life. According to Chicago Sun Times' WFLD's morning show anchor Mike Barz is rumored to have been suspended for dirty dancing at an after work party with a co-worker.
While attending a going-away party for a production assistant the previous Friday night, Barz was seen with a female staffer engaged in what was described as "dirty dancing." The staffer has not been identified.
"A lot of alcohol was consumed that night, and it looked like what Mike and his partner were doing was clearly consensual," one source said. "But it did happen."
Another source called Barz' impromptu dance fling "a joking thing — just sophomoric frat-boy kind of stuff."
As word of the incident began filtering back to the station, other employees complained about Barz' conduct to human resources officials, leading to an investigation and at least two meetings with top management.
Rumors are also suggesting that besides being suspended that the married with children anchor will have to go to behavioral counseling. Seriously, all the people who complained need to have a really good bang because that is nothing. So what he dirty danced at a part with a co-worker. It is not like he did a Tommy Lee. If they can't handle someone dirty dancing then they need to get out of the business and work somewhere a little more safe like a library.
