Really, the point is, is that I come from a specific background. The actress explained, 'Sometimes I win, most times I lose-but sometimes I win. 'One of the things I love most is that my voice is heard,' Merkerson reflected during a 2009 sit-down at the Paley Center. Van Buren remained the boss at the 27th Precinct until the end, becoming the show's longest-running character. Brooks, who in recent years has been on Being Mary Jane, Good Trouble and Bosch, also brought Robinette back for Chicago Justice in 2017. Robinette returned several times over the years, having moved into criminal defense and far more skeptical of the fairness of the justice system than when he was working for the city. Which meant, however, that Richard Brooks-ADA Paul Robinette-was let go, along with Florek. Epatha Merkerson, and Jill Hennessy as Assistant District Attorney Claire Kincaid, the first in the parade of female ADAs to pair with the always-male Executive Assistant District Attorney, in the fourth-season premiere. You need more women on camera.' Enter NYPD Lt. Littlefield's advice, as he remembered it to Forbes recently: 'Let's make it less of a men's club. In 1993, NBC President Warren Littlefield told Wolf he had six months to figure out how to give the moderately rated show (44th in prime time the week of March 1, 1992) a jolt that would attract a bigger audience. L&O, which in 2009-10 tied Gunsmoke for the longest-running live-action TV series ever in prime-time with 20 seasons (since surpassed by Law & Order: SVU) barely made it past season three. We can't say we're surprised that NBC has decided to bring back the OG series, as the network tabled another planned spinoff, Law & Order: For the Defense, in July-leaving a vacant spot to be filled by a new (or renewed, to be exact) Wolf production. 'This is mine.'Īccording to the announcement, the upcoming reboot will pick up where the drama left off in 2010, with a closer look at 'the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.' This news comes 11 years after the police procedural, which first premiered in 1990 and ran for 20 seasons, went off the air.ĭick Wolf, who created the flagship series and its hit spinoffs Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Organized Crime, appears to be just as excited as we are for the revival. 'There are very few things in life that are literally dreams come true,' Wolf said in a statement. 28, NBC announced that the original Law & Order will be revived for a 21st season at the peacock network. Call a bus, because we can't handle this TV update!

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