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LAW & ORDER To Get Record-Breaking 21st Season On NBC!!
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Buried at the bottom of a Thursday Business Week story comes word that NBC plans to bring “Law & Order” back for a 21st season, which would break CBS’ old “Gunsmoke” record for longest-running primetime drama:
“I’m a ‘Law & Order’ junkie,” [NBC primetime entertainment president Angela] Bromstad said. “I wouldn’t want to be responsible for not having ‘Law & Order’ break the record.”
“The Simpsons,” which launched nine months earlier than “L&O,” is currently in its 21st season and holds the record for primetime sitcom. “60 Minutes,” launched in 1968, is in its 41st season and holds the record for primetime series.
Outside primetime, “Meet The Press” is the longest-running TV series, having debuted in 1947. “Guiding Light” began life on radio in 1937, hopped to TV in 1952 and finally left the air last fall.
“L&O’s” 20th season premiere pulled a miserable 1.2 in the 18-49 demo, but the series has improved steadily since. Its last new episode of 2009 hit a 1.7, matching its season high in the 8 p.m. Friday timeslot.
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glad its coming back. Just wish it was on wednesday
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oh mommy
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It would be the coolest thing since The Punisher & Archie met in a comic! Think About It Network Execs!!
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L&O should've been taken out to pasture, shot in the head and its' carcass sent to the glue factory over 5 years ago...Sentimentality has no place while running a business that's predicated on advertising revenue.
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...just... *puke*
NBC is a broadcast wasteland,headed up by that simpleton in the helmet, from Beyond Thunderdome. -
I would just like to see one episode where the rich guy wasnt the bad guy. You know....a plot that isnt PREDICTABLE.
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This daytime drama started in December 1960 in Britain and now has been going with at least 2 episodes a week since! 50 years this year with still an original cast member takes some beating yanks!
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Hey, that's the show where Lister's career went to die. I hope they at least served him some tasty vinderloo.
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I stopped watching years ago. SVU is 10 times better.
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Shame that the # keep killing the best shows.
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booting out all the idiots who've ran NBC into the ground, and continue to make it irrelevant
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But next season, should be it's last.
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It saddens me that formulaic crap like L&O can stay on the air for two fucking decades while so many far, far superior shows fall by the wayside. I'd trade every episode of every L&O series for the second half of the first season of Firefly. Not to mention a fifth season of Farscape, a third season of Pushing Daisies, the last season of Deadwood. The list goes on and on...
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It's admittedly been on too long at this point, but it has been pretty good television for most of that 20 year run. Nowadays it relies too much on crazy, shocking twists and scandalous cases.Oh, and Alana de la Garza is effin' hot.
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L&O is getting better, this season has been great.
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Primetime all the way, baby...
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Coming up on episode 16,000 on BBC Radio 4...
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for a show that only has three basic possible endings for every episode. Did you ever see the episode where the cops think one person is the killer and then there's a surprise twist and they found out somebody else did it? You know the episode I'm talking about...
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my wife watches Bones and SVU and CSI, and I always make fun of the basic formula: someone gets shot in the face, and it's OBVIOUSLY suspect A, since he left a message on the guys phone saying "I'm gonna shoot you in the face". So they spend 20 minutes looking for him, but he has an alibi because he was doing time or something. So they talk to Person B, an uninterested party, who leads them to suspect C, who they spend the next 20 minutes putting through the ringer with exhaustive lab tests involving DNA and bullets and fibers and mud, etc. Then, in the last 7 minutes, SURPRISE! It was Person B all along, who elaborately framed Suspect C and, of course, confesses. Fuck this show.
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Haven't watched this show since Jerry Orbach died.
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At the end of the series, Chris Noth's Mr. Big wakes up in bed with Carrie Bradshaw and it turns out the whole "Law and Order" series was just a dream. As Big and Carrie leave the building to go get a bagel, they wave at their kindly old neighbor Mr. McCoy (played by Sam Waterson).
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1st and 2nd season L&O were some of the best crime fiction ever on television - right up there with The Wire. Part of the reason - those guys heated each other's guts. Too bad they recast and screwed with the formula.
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Another reason the first few seasons of L&O were good was because the city itself was gritty and edgy.
In later seasons the city is too glossy and clean. There is no edge it just feels like a managed set. -
I just have to shake my head at the mess NBC has become.
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tough guy douchebags...and that new ada guy is shit as well.
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amd the current cops aren't much better
Neither one would be much use in a real foot chase
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with Peter Dinklage and Tony Cox. That's a dynamic duo.
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That was to place L&O on Sunday nights AFTER football season. That way you get the old folks to watch and hopefully no repeats. Plus announce this is the last season and have all the still living old characters come back for an episode or two. Hell if they wanted to do something revolutionary, it's been established thru John Munch that L&O exists in the Homicide Universe, and The Wire shares the same Universe as Homicide, why not bring in Dominic West as Det. McNulty
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I've not seen a SINGLE. EPISODE! And I knew it had been on for a while, but I had ZERO KNOWLEDGE of the fact that it had been on as long as The Simpsons. That's crazy.
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come on now, you got Anthony anderson and the brother from six fett under as the cops. Plus the ADA is Batmans dad. I hope they continue for years to come.
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a 1.2 rating?? it was getting a 30.0 back in the 90's...the formula has been played out for years. Give me good TV serials like the Shield, Sopranos, or Dexter any day over this warmed over yesteryear crap.
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What they can't even get them all together for publicity shots?
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S. Epatha Merkerson to be exact. Lt. Van Buren is the longest running character in a TV show. That's a gorilla you don't try to move.
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"...but he does the max."
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...or any of the other "Murder Shows". I think when you've seen one, you've seen them all. And I haven't even done that!
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looks animatronic. Like you'd see him in tomorrowland in a jumpsuit telling you about the future of automatic, self-cleaning coffee machines that make custard and do your dishes.
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But were there no pictures available of the original cast, you know, with George Dzundza who was on the show before Paul Sorvino?
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That picture at the top of the page IS George Dzundza (2nd from left). That was always there when this article when up, right?
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It's the first one Herc used. Long Live Hoss!!!!
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Great episode, Logan's partner Greevey is killed over the telephone while Logan talks to his wife.
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Seems like that show was on for like, 50 years or something.
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Jan 03, 2010 7:16:46 PM CST
Gunsmoke was a 30 minute show for the first six seasons
by voice o. reason
Does that disqualify it from some kind of record? Or if you go by number of episodes, instead of number of seasons, it still beats "Law and Order" and "The Simpsons."
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Ultimately, it has no nutritional value, but its familiarity makes you feel all warm inside.
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Even at its worst, it's better than most. And I didn't start till about Season 8 or 9.....I'm a late starter...skipped "ER" until Clooney left (too many "very special" promos had killed it for me). It's easier to take "Ripped from the headlines."
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show is getting back on track this season.and to all the haters out there-it's still better than most of the crap on rite now!anthony anderson is good-sisto is better and garza is just friggin hot!
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...if you're just going to replace 90% of the original cast by the time the show is limping past it's tenth season? Just create a NEW fucking lawyer/cop/doctor show! It's like, imagine Lost running through 2024, but every single actor left eight seasons ago, and the only original character from the series still left is a now twenty-something Baby Aaron or some such bullshit. They tried this shit with The X-Files in it's ninth season, and the Doggett & Reyes team was rightfully rejected by series fans, who didn't want to see a poor subsitution for Mulder & Scully (reduced to reciting some variation on "Well, if MULDER were here, he'd say..." in every fucking episode). Smallville has lost about 80% of it's season one cast by now. Honestly, aside from Tom Welling and Alison Mack, who's left from the show's first season? NO ONE!!! Even though Smallville is still entertaining, it should have been retitled "Metropolis" three seasons ago (when does Clark even return to Smallville anymore, except to feed his dog?). Aside from soap operas, there is NO REASON to keep a show on the air if you're replacing virtually everyone in the fucking cast. Why are they still pushing Scrubs at us, when Zach Braff is the only original cast member left? Just create ANOTHER wacky medical show. Jesus...
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Almost completely irrelevant in this day and age. House is the only one I give a modicum of attention to. It's premise and procedure is long past old, but Hugh Laurie keeps me coming back. No other by-the-numbers show does that for me.
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I saw an episode of SFU under today, and I couldn't believe how big of an annoying douche Sisto was. He left a voice mail message at one point that said, "Claire call me. If I don't get to listen to some Brian Eno today, I think I'm going to explode."
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Just let it die!!!!!!!
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I wonder what the original Star Trek would of looked like if it had been on TV for 21 seasons? Would William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy still be playing Kirk and Spock? Would they have recasted them? What do you think?
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SUCK IT HARD YOU FRAUDULENT, ESTABLISHMENT SUCK UP!
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http://tinyurl.com/yd9cgpe
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...Which takes place in the mind of an autistic child from the ST. ELSEWHERE finale, Tommy Westphall.
Doctors Turner and Ehrlich from ELSEWHERE both made appearances on HOMICIDE, whose Detective Munch transferred over to LAW AND ORDER SVU. Munch also appeared on X-FILES, and Scully and Mulder both guested on THE SIMPSONS.
MASH, CHEERS, 24, MILLENNIUM and FUTURAMA are also part of this kid's fantasy. -
Jan 04, 2010 3:02:37 AM CST
1.7? So it's just slightly better then Leno, and it's getting an
by cash907
This season has been absolute shit, and the ratings reflect that. T:SCC and Dollhouse both got better ratings then this turd, and they were shitcanned despite a rabid fanbase and much critical acclaim. NBC execs must all be too far gone on crack to know just how far gone they really are. Sad.
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sure know how to peddle to network execs. Or must have really compromising pictures.
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and the Brits may argue that's only a US record with Dr. Who having been on forever. But look at it this way. Sure it's a great show. My favorite years were the Orbach (RIP) Bratt era. However Gunsmoke (until The Simpsons take over) is the longest running show with the same lead actor.
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Plastic robot.
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Like him as an actor, but no desire to watch L&O. Go back to your roots playing Gay Priests, Snipers, and Purifiers, you bastitch! That said, just de-age him some and have him play Lt. Piett or whatever in Star Wars TV programme. Colley can play his dad for ultimate awesomeness. It'll be like Holby Blue, but even better.
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Put de la garza on SVU as the A.D.A. and then you got the stuff right there. Her and Hargitay? Priceless.
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in that photo. If I could read her mind I think she is saying: "Dear G-d someone cancel this $#%&*@ show."
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don't like that the L&O series has had many cast changes over the run of the show. I actually like the concept and it is representative of everyday life. I hate when you get a situation where nobody gets promoted (Commander Riker I am looking at you).
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does make sense. Cops transfer to other duty, get promoted, die, retire; ADAs either move up or move out. SVU has actually lost some of its real-worldness by still having the same leads after 9 years. In the early seasons they frequently talked about the high burnout rate for SVU detectives, yet Bentsen and Stabler remain. I mean, I love the characters but in the real world they'd be long gone.
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Can't help but think that her breast cancer this season is her ticket out of L&O-world. And codymr, sorry, didn't see your post until after I posted.
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So Alana De La Garza will be free to get some more exposure in R-rated features, or perhaps True Blood or The L-Word
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True, but wasn't he offered his own ship once or twice but turned it down because being First Officer on the Enterprise was far more prestigious than Captain on some minor science vessel? Besides, if there's one character on TV that ever deserved a promotion but never got it was Ensign Kim. Dude served 7 years as the lowest officer on the ship; not sure what he did more of - die or save the day. What's a guy gotta do to get ahead in Starfleet?
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Moulder and Scully appeared on the Simpsons, the character of John Munch who's been a regular on svu and has appeared in all of the Law and orders also appeared on the x-files and the loan gunmen.so in a long winded way law and order is apart of the Simpsons uni.
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I used to be done with L&O. But they keep pushing the 'insane liberal propaganda' to ever more ridiculous heights. Now I won't even watch NBC. Screw these people.
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With guest starring roles from the eyebrows of Eugene Levey, Martin Scorsese and Peter Gallagher.
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Not a network show
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Jan 05, 2010 12:12:41 PM CST
I actually like the current cast. I like that Sisto has
by coughlins laws
gotten another lead roll and anthony Anderson is just as strong in straight drama as he is in comedy. I also like Linus Roache. The only problem is the decidedly Leftward political slant it has taken lately. I'm used to this out of Hollywood and it's usually subtle enough that I can look past it, but these last two years have been ridiculous. However, the episodes where McCoy isn't going after the Bush Administration are pretty good. And the ADA, oh my God, she is insanely hot, yet somehow not too hot to be a believable lawyer...
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L&O doesn't have the crackle it used to. It has descended into a formula show. It has become a procedureal cop drama. Needs to get back to more issues related stories. And definetly needs some unpredictability.
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"Why are they still pushing Scrubs at us, when Zach Braff is the only original cast member left? Just create ANOTHER wacky medical show. Jesus... " not to be a jerk but, Donald Faison, John C McGinley are both from the original cast. and they are listed as regulars this year. and Ken Jenkins is around enough this season to be a regular. as far as l&o i like the newer cast, i don't watch it often since they moved it to fridays but they seem to mesh well together. still orbach was one of my favorites of the series.
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