Synopsis. [14], On October 11, 2016, Hollywood Reporter reported that Gary Cole would guest star as a politician whose campaign goes haywire when several women go public with damaging accusations. Directed by Steve Shill. There’s going to be some differences of opinion in the next Law & Order: SVU, according to NBC‘s official description of the episode and the promo they’ve released for it. As the resident psychiatrist for the Special Victims Unit, Huang helps keep the officers sane in a field that could drive ordinary people mad. With the season eleven premiere on September 23, 2009, the series vacated its Tuesday 10 p.m. From season two onwards, the format was changed to be more faithful to the original Law & Order concept by including court cases. If this episode is going to use him for story purposes, it will need to be a really good story. Title: In season 16, Peter Scanavino joined the series, first in a recurring role for episodes 1–3 and then was promoted to the main cast in episode 5, with Kelli Giddish, Danny Pino, Ice-T and Raúl Esparza. Callie Thorn as Defense Attorney Nikki Staines, Stephen C. Bradbury as Judge Colin McNamara, Steve Rosen as Defence Attorney Michael Guthrie, Meredith Holzman as Counselor Naomi Ziegler, Helmar Augustus Cooper as Judge Reginald Flowers, Bjorn Thorstad as Defense Attorney Mitch Jackson, Episode inspired by the Brock Turner case (. Add the first question. On July 17, Wong announced on Twitter that, "I actually do not return for season 13, I am jumping to Awake! Wolf felt, however, that it was important and commercially desirable to have "Law & Order" in the title, and he initially proposed the title of the show be Law & Order: Sex Crimes.
[10], Originally, the show focused around the detective pairings of Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson and John Munch and Brian Cassidy. In season thirteen, both Cabot and Novak returned as ADAs. [57], When searching for a place to film the interiors of the show, the producers found that there were no suitable studio spaces available in New York City. Upon being renewed for its twenty-first season, it was announced that Winchester would be departing the series after the twentieth season.[49]. There's no doubt who we should choose—Hargitay and Meloni." [44] Changes that accompanied this included Tamara Tunie's being bumped from the main cast to a guest-starring role and recurring actor Joel de la Fuente's not appearing for the first time since 2002. March returned to the show in the tenth season (after McManus' departure from the cast) when Neal Baer proposed Cabot receive a character arc to revitalize the second part of the season, which would continue through season eleven. [48] NBC currently has no plans to air the episode, therefore shelving it indefinitely. This week’s Law & Order: SVU episode settles the show in its new regular time slot, and it’s going to be a very interesting one, according to NBC‘s official description of … [42], In June 2011, it was announced that Kelli Giddish and Danny Pino would join the cast as new series regulars. [76], In 2016, a New York Times study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook likes found that SVU's popularity was "atypical: generally slightly more popular in rural areas and the South, but largely restricted to the eastern half of the country. Warren Leight became the new showrunner during this same year and signed on before he knew that Meloni would be leaving the cast. [12] Later, TV Guide announced that Edwards would be portraying Benson's very first partner out of the Academy, Sgt. It was announced at the end of the seventeenth season that recurring star Andy Karl (who portrayed Sergeant Mike Dodds) would be departing the cast due to his Broadway work. For the male role, Detective Elliot Stabler, the finalists were Tim Matheson, John Slattery, Nick Chinlund, and Christopher Meloni. The series has received 91 award nominations, winning 33 awards.