All Things Law And Order on Social Media – Update!

With continued changes at X, formerly known as Twitter, I’m not sure how long I will be posting there or how often. If X, formerly known as Twitter, begins to charge for the use of their service, I don’t see myself staying and paying. To that end, I thought I’d post the links to the other social media sites where I currently, and will continue to, post updates. 

First and foremost, I can always be found right here at allthingslawandorder.blogspot.com!

Here are the other sites where you will find my updates:

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Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent Announces Cast

Variety reports that the cast has been announced for the new “Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent”. They report the all-Canadian cast is as follows:

 

Aden Young as Det. Sgt. Henry Graff 

Kathleen Munroe as Det. Sgt. Frankie Bateman 

Karen Robinson as Inspector Vivienne Holness 

K.C. Collins as Deputy Crown Attorney Theo Forrester 

Nicola Correia-Damude as Forensic Pathologist Dr. Lucy Da Silva 

Araya Mengesha as tech expert Mark Yohannes.

Read the full story on Variety: ‘Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent’ Announces Cast on First Original International Franchise Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)

NBC Announces Updated 2023-2024 Fall Premiere Dates

NBC ANNOUNCES 2023-24 FALL PREMIERE DATES

Breaking news | July 19, 2023

New Season Kicks Off Monday, Sept. 25 With Emmy Award-Nominated “The Voice” Featuring New Coach Reba McEntire
 
Freshman Scripted Series “The Irrational” and “Found” Make Their Debuts While “Quantum Leap” and “Magnum P.I.” Return with All-New Episodes
 
“America’s Got Talent” Season Finale Moves to Premiere Week
 
First Annual People’s Choice Country Awards, Hosted by Little Big Town, Airs
Live from Nashville on Sept. 28 on NBC and Peacock
 
All New Episodes Stream Next Day on Peacock
 

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – July 19, 2023 – NBC kicks off its 2023-24 fall schedule on Sept. 25 with a new season of the Emmy Award-nominated competition series “The Voice,” followed by a strong lineup of original programming that includes the premiere of new dramas “The Irrational,” starring Jesse L. Martin and “Found,” starring Shanola Hampton, as well as new episodes of returning dramas “Quantum Leap” and “Magnum, P.I.” all of which will stream next day on Peacock.
 
“The Irrational” will launch Premiere Week on Monday, Sept. 25 at 10 p.m. following the two-hour season premiere of the four-time Emmy Award-winning competition series “The Voice,” which features new coach and country music legend Reba McEntire along with returning coaches John Legend, Gwen Stefani and Niall Horan, who’s back as the defending champ after taking the crown last season.
On Sept. 26 and 27, the “America’s Got Talent” penultimate episode and season finale will air during Premiere Week, anchoring the first Wednesday night of the new season with a live two-hour telecast during whch a new champion will be named.
 
In addition, a two-hour live telecast of the first-ever People’s Choice Country Awards, an extension of the successful fan-favorite People’s Choice Awards brand that features some of the finest acts in country music today, will be simulcast on Sept. 28 across NBC and Peacock. The special will be hosted by country superstars Little Big Town.
 
Tuesday Oct. 3 will feature a two-hour edition of “The Voice,” serving as a formidable lead-in to the premiere of the new original drama series “Found,” starring Shanola Hampton and Mark-Paul Gosselaar. (Beginning Oct. 10, the first hour of “The Voice” will be a recap of the previous night.)
Beginning Oct. 4, Wednesdays feature an all-original drama lineup with new seasons of “Quantum Leap” and “Magnum, P.I.” airing at 9 and 10 p.m., respectively.
The third season of hospital-set drama “Transplant” will make its return to NBC with new episodes starting on Thursday, Oct. 5. Airing just after Transplant” on Thursdays will be “Dateline NBC” at 10 p.m.

Friday’s lineup includes new episodes of “Dateline NBC,” which begin Sept. 29 at 9 p.m., before “The Wall” returns to the NBC lineup on Nov. 3 at 8 p.m.
Premieres for all previously announced fall series – “Night Court,” “Extended Family,” “Chicago Med,” “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago P.D.,” “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: SVU” – will be announced at a later date.

Midseason and/or summer shows previously announced include “Untitled America’s Got Talent Series,” “Deal or No Deal Island,” “Password,” “The America’s,” “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” “Lopez vs Lopez” and “La Brea.”

NBC’s fall season premiere dates:

Monday, Sept. 25
8-10 p.m. – The Voice (Original)
10-11 p.m. – The Irrational (Original)

Tuesday, Sept. 26
8-9 p.m. – The Voice (Original)
9-11 p.m. – America’s Got Talent (Performance finale)

Wednesday, Sept. 27
8-9 p.m. – America’s Got Talent (R)
9-11 p.m. – America’s Got Talent (Season finale)

Thursday, Sept. 28
8-10 p.m. – People’s Choice Country Awards
10-11 p.m. – The Irrational (R)

Friday, Sept. 29
9-11 p.m. – Dateline NBC (Original)

Tuesday, Oct. 3
8-10 p.m. – The Voice (Original)
10-11 p.m. – Found (Original)

Wednesday, Oct. 4
8-9 p.m. – Chicago dramas (R)
9-10 p.m. – Quantum Leap (Original)
10-11 p.m. – Magnum, P.I. (Original)

Thursday, Oct. 5
8-9 p.m. – Law & Order dramas (R)
9-10 p.m. – Transplant (Original)
10-11 p.m. – Dateline NBC (R)

 Friday, Nov. 3
8-9 p.m. – The Wall (Original)

 

NEW DRAMA SERIES

“FOUND”

In any given year, more than 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. More than half that number are people of color that the country seems to forget about. A public relations specialist, who was once herself one of those forgotten ones, and her crisis management team now make sure there is always someone looking out for the forgotten missing people. But unbeknownst to anyone, this everyday hero is hiding a chilling secret of her own.

The cast includes Shanola Hampton, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Kelli Williams, Brett Dalton, Gabrielle Walsh, Arlen Escarpeta and Karan Oberoi.

Nkechi Okoro Carroll will write and executive produce. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Sonay Hoffman, Lindsay Dunn and Leigh Redman also executive produce.

Berlanti Productions and Rock My Soul Productions produces in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

“THE IRRATIONAL”

“The Irrational” follows world-renowned professor of behavioral science Alec Mercer (Jesse L. Martin) as he lends his unique expertise on an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, law enforcement and corporations. His insight and unconventional approach to understanding human behavior lead him and the team on a series of intense, unexpected journeys to solve illogical puzzles and perplexing mysteries. The show is based on best-selling author Dan Ariely’s book, “Predictably Irrational.”

The cast also includes Maahra Hill, Travina Springer, Molly Kunz, and Arash DeMaxi. Arika Lisanne Mittman, Mark Goffman, Sam Baum and David Frankel executive produce.

he show is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

NEW SPECIAL

PEOPLE’S CHOICE COUNTRY AWARDS

The inaugural two-hour “People’s Choice Country Awards” will air live on Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. ET/PT across NBC and Peacock, from the world-famous Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville.  

The two-hour telecast will lean into the rich connection between country music and the Opry through chart-topping musical performances, genre-bending collaborations, legendary tributes and surprise moments that regularly happen from the iconic venue.   

The only award show for the people and by the people, the “People’s Choice Country Awards” will recognize the biggest and best country music has to offer chosen entirely by the fans across various categories. Several honorary awards will also be bestowed during the awards ceremony.    

The “People’s Choice Country Awards” will extend to social platforms with All-Access Live bringing fans at home behind the scenes as well as interactively connecting country’s most popular stars with their biggest fans.  

The telecast is produced by Den of Thieves with Jesse Ignjatovic, Evan Prager and Barb Bialkowski serving as executive producers.

© 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC

“Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent” Coming to Canada

Canada’s Citytv has greenlit a Toronto adaptation of Law & Order titled “Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent”. Read the details here: The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent’ Spinoff a Go”

Law & Order Organized Crime “With Many Names” Discussion Topic - Season Finale

Here is the discussion topic for the season 3 finale of Law & Order Organized Crime, “With Many Names” which aired on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Please feel free to add any feedback you have about this episode in the comments!

My comments:

I’m not sure where to start on this one.  This half of the crossover with SVU moved very quickly and a lot happened, but some of this episode annoyed me greatly.  Despite my numerous annoyances, I think they actually put a cohesive crossover story together where most everyone was used at some point in both episodes.  

Annoyance #1: The Feds, SVU, and OC all were focused on catching the Shadowerk perp, which they’ve traced back to Dublin, Ohio. Why did they need to send Benson, Stabler, and so many people from their respective teams (Rollins too) to Ohio to chase this perp down?  If the Feds were involved, couldn’t the Feds get their own team of locals to do the legwork? I mean, we DO have Federal agents and police in Ohio.  I wonder how much that would cost to bring all those detectives from New York to Ohio? I’d be interested to hear what the standard procedure would be for either the Feds or the New York City police department on working a case where the perp is out of state. It felt unrealistic they would transport so many people from New York City to Ohio. 

Annoyance #2  Stereotypical perp: Kyle turned out to be the stereotypical mid-twenties guy living in Ohio in his mom’s attic (not the basement this time).  His mom was clueless that her own son had invaded her workplace’s network to run part of his hit list website.  Of course his mother, when confronted with the truth about him, still defended and protected him. This was all too cookie-cutter for me. Oh, I forgot, he tried to kill himself but lucky for him he got a nibble on his website,  and he managed to save his own life just in the nick of time!  

Annoyance #3: Benson and Stabler, on the hit list, decide to throw caution to the wind and go out in public for some food. *Amazingly* someone easily finds them and disables the Feds in their car and the whole restaurant with an irritating spray EXCEPT BENSON who equally *amazingly* sees the blinding mist coming at them and protects herself. But she gets shot in the left hip with shotgun pellets and falls to the ground along with Stabler.  He can’t see but she can and she *amazingly* uses the gun, while a blind Stabler holds it,  to shoot the attacker in the head.  Now how exactly did Benson get hit in the left hip with pellets and no one else – including Stabler who was right next to her – got hit with any pellets?  I thought they had a spray pattern and at that distance I can’t believe they would have only hit Benson. Any experts out there who can provide some technical insight would be appreciated.  

Annoyance # 4:  Horrible preparation for the takedown. Kyle’s mom eventually gives him up and they trace him to a cabin they have in the woods.  They all charge in, apparently without any  prior surveillance of the house or area to see if he’s even IN the house.  They also don’t realize the area is covered with trail cameras, which they may have noticed had they done advance scouting.  As they have no  idea where he is at, they are sitting ducks and  he shoots,  and Whelan is hit in the neck. They also have this huge team of agents on site but only one medic, and as Whelan lies bleeding and incapacitated,  he urges them to go to assist Kyle - who stabbed himself with a sword (!) – as they need him alive.  With the number of agents they had on site, they should have had a waiting ambulance with more than one medic.   If they would have prepped better, they could have nabbed Kyle without any loss of life. 

Annoyance #5 – Predictable:   Whelan asks Reyes to help him to die as he doesn’t want to live paralyzed.  Later, Whelan dies, and Reyes seems devastated but Whelan’s dad, who also arrived at the hospital, seemed stoic.  Yes, someone turned off the machine (probably his dad?) but it doesn’t matter who, we knew it was going to happen once Whelan begged for it. 

Annoyance #6 – Kyle caves in to Carisi – as long as they leave his mother alone.  That’s because men that age living in their mom’s attic always put  mom first. 

Annoyance #6: Corny:  The red box with the “Live, Love, Laugh” thing that Stabler removes the “e” so it says  “Liv, Love, Laugh”.  I also suppose we will see a lot of Benson’s  compass necklace from Stabler next season so it can “lead [her] to happiness”.  Note: Stabler says he will be on a new case and will be “gone for a while”; this is so we all understand why he won’t likely be visible at SVU or OC until the mid-season shows start.

Annoyance # 7 – with a question:    Were Whelan and Kyle in hospitals in Ohio or New York?  I can’t imagine they would transport them to New York in the shape they were in, but then suddenly Kyle is in the SVU precinct to shut down the web sites.  Which brings me to the annoyance – why did he have to come to New York and to SVU to shut down the web sites? If they were in such a hurry to get them taken down, I suspect he could have taken them down ANYWHERE.  Come to think of it, with all the computer experts out there, couldn’t someone have figured out how to block the sites? If Jet could add a virus to them to slow them down, why couldn’t she just find a way to SHUT them down? 

My wish for next season is they go back to the multi-story arcs.  The show works better for me when the investigation covers more than one or two episodes.  

Law & Order SVU “All Pain Is One Malady” Discussion Topic – Season Finale

Here is the discussion topic for the season 24 finale of Law & Order SVU “All Pain Is One Malady” which aired on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Please feel free to add any feedback you have about this episode in the comments!

My comments:  

As far as season finales go, this was a decent episode and a good set-up for the other half of the crossover with the Law & Order Organized Crime episode “With Many Names.”  While the SVU “crime of the week” was a bit thin, it did provide a good setup for the OC segment. 

It looks like many fans get their wish as Muncy was offered a job with the DEA – and at the end of the crossover OC episode, she’s leaving the SVU office with her belongings. (I was cheering inside.)  Hopefully this really is the last we see of her. (Note: several entertainment news sources later confirmed Molly Burnett has left the series.)  “Professor” Rollins (that still makes me laugh a bit) provided her expertise in this episode and also in the following OC episode.  We know Amanda is not really happy in the new job – she hasn’t shared her feelings with Carisi – and many wonder if this is just a tease for Kelli Giddish’s return to the show.   Is it a case of  regret that they dropped Kelli and now want her back?  Unless she comes cheap, I don’t see it happening.  It seems the Law & Order brand - along with a lot of other TV shows these days - is more about cutting costs rather than quality.   Maybe if we are lucky they will keep Detective Bruno, and Detective Churlish too (even though fans appear split on the latter). 

In the middle of the SVU and the Feds chasing down the “Shadowerk” website perp, there was an overlapping case of a man who was sexually assaulting various people, including a previous rape victim, and  a young man. This perp did not relate to the Shadowerk website and the case was solved quickly – maybe too quickly for the real world. 

Chief McGrath continues to be the stereotypical cartoonish hot-head “just get it done” boss. Of course this means he will eventually look like a fool and will be bested by the more cautious Benson.    The problem with McGrath is that he is too focused on the short-term win of nabbing the people using Shadowerk and not so much on the person running the site.  He seems like the kind of guy who is more worried about his own job and his standing in the One PP pecking order than in the actual crimes or their victims.   Benson, working steadily with the Feds, finally manage to nab someone that they think is running the site…but they’ll soon find he’s only a cog in the machine.  

There was a lot of Benson/Stabler interaction in this episode, making way for the faster paced Organized Crime finale which followed.  The reason: they're doubly motivated as both Benson and Stabler are now on the Shadowerk website hit list and now there is extra motivation to shut down the site.  

The one thing about Benson and Stabler: there’s no denying that these two continue to have a chemistry together that is missing from their individual shows.  I wish there was a way to bring them back together.  As Organized Crime is a mid-season, short-order series next season, we may have to wait a while to see them together again. 

Law & Order “Open Wounds” Discussion Topic – Season Finale

Here is the discussion topic for the season 22 finale of Law & Order “Open Wounds” which aired on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Please feel free to add any feedback you have about this episode in the comments!

My comments: A solid episode which not only featured a conflict for Nolan Price, but also a conflict between Jack and his daughter Rebecca (played by Sam Waterston’s daughter Elisabeth Waterston). 

Nolan, likely not realizing he was suffering from PTSD from the subway shooting incident (from the episode  “Camouflage”), struggles with trying a murder case against a man who was also a victim – and a hero – in another  mass shooting incident.   Complicating matters is the attorney for the defendant is Jack McCoy’s daughter.  McCoy does his best to distance himself to avoid any appearances of being partial to his daughter, but in doing so he puts Price in the thick of it, and Price is obviously struggling with trying the man for murder.  Eventually Jack gives Price some leeway to negotiate with Rebecca,  but Rebecca, just as bullheaded and driven as her father, refuses to budge, thinking she can get her client cleared.   When he’s found guilty, she’s clearly not happy with her father and likely there will continue to be a rift between the two.  In this case, I think Jack did the right thing – there really is no excuse for murder, and even heroes have to pay the price (no pun intended). 

Law & Order SVU “All Pain Is One Malady” Photos – Season Finale

Here are advance photos for the season 24 finale of Law & Order SVU “All Pain Is One Malady” which will air on Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 9 PM ET on NBC. (This is a crossover event with Law & Order Organized Crime.)

The photos feature Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Peter Scanavino, Octavio Pisano, Molly Burnett, Chris Meloni, Kelli Giddish, Ainsley Seiger, Brent Antonello, Rick Gonzalez, Terry Serpico as Chief McGrath, Jasmine Batchelor as Officer Tonie Churlish, Francois Battiste as Agent McCrary, Kadia Saraf as U.S. Attorney Anya Avital, Cisco Lopez as Manny Lopez, Mariel Suarez as Martina Lopez, and Kevin Kane as Det. Terry Bruno.

Photos by: Peter Kramer/NBC and Ralph Bavaro/NBC 

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