Today, NBC announced that Dick Wolf has extended his overall deal with the network … and this also includes some great news for a pair of shows that he executive-produces. Let’s begin here with “Law & Order: SVU,” which is returning for a landmark 18th season. Is this a surprise? Not really, given that the […]
For everyone who is looking forward to seeing what lies ahead on “Law & Order: SVU” moving forward this season, we come bearing some particularly sad news: You’re not going to get a chance to see it tonight. NBC is instead replaying the episode “Patrimonial Burden” from this past fall, and you’ll have to wait […]
At one point this past summer, there was talk about a mythical crossover episode featuring every show executive-produced by Dick Wolf. Eventually, that plan fell through, and a big part of us imagines that part of the reason why may just be that there were few ways to throw together “Law & Order: SVU” into […]
What happens when someone is a victim of a terrible crime, and almost everyone who could have helped chooses to look the other way instead? It’s a situation that happens unfortunately quite a bit in real life, especially as we move on more and more into the social-media age. We find more and more ways […]
We had actually scheduled to do “Law & Order: SVU” for our daily Ratings Bubble Report series at the start of the month, but the timing couldn’t be any more serendipitous given that we’re writing this following the drama’s best ratings of the season. This is the longest-running scripted drama on network TV at present, and […]
“Law & Order: SVU” continues to be the Energizer Bunny of TV shows. Even when you start to wonder whether or not it can keep its momentum going, it finds a way to shake things up just enough and deliver compelling television for both fans old and new. We haven’t made too much of this […]
On tonight’s new episode of “Law & Order: SVU,” you are seeing in “Townhouse Incident” one of the most emotional, powerful, and dangerous episodes you’ve seen in quite some time for the Olivia Benson character. For the sake of this article, what we are here to do right now is ask how they are possibly […]
While tonight is going to be a relatively quiet one for broadcast TV thanks to President Obama’s State of the Union Address, there will be plenty of television to watch on Wednesday … including one of the darker episodes of “Law & Order: SVU” you’ve seen in some time. Is “Townhouse Incident” the most harrowing […]
Is this the season of love on “Law & Order: SVU” season 17? It is a question that clearly the show has no problem in raising when you look at what they are offering across the board. It’s possible that we could see such a story for Olivia Benson in the future, and we may […]
“Law & Order: SVU” has certainly aired many a difficult episode over the years, but there are a select few touchstones you can look back on specifically when question which stories were the most trying for none other than Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson. The William Lewis saga of course comes to mind, and the same […]
