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The Death of Law & Order

Valadius May 14 2010 04:39 PM

"Law & Order" has been cancelled by NBC after 20 seasons. It will remain tied with "Gunsmoke" as the longest-running drama series in American television history. [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100514/ap_en_ot/us_tv_law___order

Gwreck May 14 2010 07:22 PM Re: The Death of Law & Order

Horrible. And they're replacing it with "Law & Order: Los Angeles"????????? Are they kidding?

Nymr83 May 14 2010 08:00 PM Re: The Death of Law & Order

they should have given it one more year so the producers could at least give the show a proper goodbye (a planned series finale)... at least throw them a 2 hour made for tv movie next year? i havent even watched in a few years, really lost interest in the original after Jerry Orbach was gone. Merkeson leaving the show wouldn't have helped either, but she wasn't irreplaceable the way Orbach was imo.

metirish May 14 2010 08:23 PM Re: The Death of Law & Order

[quote="Nymr83":1wldnc5h]they should have given it one more year so the producers could at least give the show a proper goodbye (a planned series finale)... at least throw them a 2 hour made for tv movie next year? i havent even watched in a few years, really lost interest in the original after Jerry Orbach was gone. Merkeson leaving the show wouldn't have helped either, but she wasn't irreplaceable the way Orbach was imo.[/quote:1wldnc5h] Just read in the NYT article that Wolf is in talks about a possible movie or retrospective for next year to give it that proper wrap up.

seawolf17 May 15 2010 05:13 AM Re: The Death of Law & Order

It had to go sometime, you figure. I'm more surprised that they cut Heroes without giving it a chance to wrap up.

Frayed Knot May 15 2010 07:50 AM Re: The Death of Law & Order

[quote="Valadius":ybxds9qj]"Law & Order" has been cancelled by NBC after 20 seasons. It will remain tied with "Gunsmoke" as the longest-running drama series in American television history.[/quote:ybxds9qj] And those series have one other thing in common: I've never seen a minute of either one. Gunsmoke isn't really a surprise since it was before my time. It probably existed in re-run land during my life but I never ventured. Law & Order I was somehow unaware of for like its first half-dozen years of existence. After that I figured I was just so far behind that I never bothered.

Edgy DC May 15 2010 07:55 AM Re: The Death of Law & Order

I stumbled upon it now and then --- in hotel rooms --- and found it boring and formulaic, populated with recycled plots, detectives pushing 70, New York lawyers with non-Gotham accents, and perpetually cloudy days. I did occasionally enjoy stumbling into the one with Vincent D'nofrio, because when he interviewed a suspect, he seemed so sickened by the guy that he was going to make him tell the truth by throwing up in his face. Even this thrill was passing.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 15 2010 08:24 AM Re: The Death of Law & Order

they finally had to cancel once evry single actor and Broadway wannabe appeared at least once. a proper sendoff would be a Battle of the Law & Order Superbabes pageant. I liked the idea of it being formulaic cheese every week. Orbach and Waterson were always great. SVU was a decent spinoff with Munch, never got into CI

MFS62 May 15 2010 08:27 AM Re: The Death of Law & Order

Sad to see it go. Maybe that can modify the Law and Order parody I wrote several years ago ("Who Killed the Mets?") to be "Who Killed Law and Order?" I got feedback from one of the producers of the show that if they ever decided to do a parody episode (like an April Fools Night show) they would have considered my script. Later

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 15 2010 09:28 AM Re: The Death of Law & Order

(Sad kung KUNG)