Law & Order to return as limited series with Logan and McCoy?
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Interesting. If Chris Noth and/or Sam Watterson returned (and/or some of the other early cast members), I would be interested in watching it. Otherwise, meh.
As long as it's Law & Order, I'm in! 
This calls for a dramatic sound effect.
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Think he quite in disgust after butting heads over corruption higher up the food chain in city politiics.
Not sure what bring Jack McCoy into CI would achieve - he's got no history there.
And Logan? Sorry Goren and Eames or it's nobody.
Kathryn Erbe doesn't seem to have done much TV work in recent years but Vicent D'Onofrio is going to be in Marvel's Daredevil but don't know if that's going to be ongoing.
While the answer is probably, there's also a greater acceptance of limited-run series, which helps if they don't want to commit to a full season.
If you're going to have a limited series you would also need to greatly reduce your pre-production costs (design, costume, set construction etc) becasue you've got fewer episodes to spread your costs over.
Though given that the various L&O series have used a great deal of location shooting rather than sets so it might be able to save a few bucks up front.
Looking at the ratings figures from the wiki entry, Until 5 on NBC the show was pulling over 11 million viewers, Season 6 saw the numbers drop by 25% but that was the first season with alternating leads. Doesn't give a breakdown for the Goren/Eames vs Logan/Barek eps
The series continued to drop in the ratings after the move to the U.S.A network but picked up 25% for the limited run 10th season which saw the return of the original two leads.
Well, if they brought it back, it could take the record for longest running live action drama (L&O currently tied with Gunsmoke). Of course, there would be an asterisk by that because it's technically not a season; and there is still no realistic way it can top the number of episodes Gunsmoke had.
24, Heroes, Twin Peaks, maybe X-Files. The in thing is to bring back popular shows that haven't been popular in awhile.
And with L&O it should have never have been canceled anyways, NBC is just stupid.
It probably was a ratings decision (was averageing about 7.2mil veiwers in it's final season but it had a couple of timeslot moves.
Probably want made the cancellation worse was it's replacement by L&O:LA though it's ratings for a first season were only slightly better than the originals in the 20th season.
I care less about the actors and more about the showrunner. If they can get Rene Balcer (showrunner on CI S1-5, and many of the better seasons of the mothership): great, I'm in. If it's Warren Leight (showrunner on CI as it started its downhill slide in S6-S7, and current showrunner on SVU)... hell, I'll probably still watch but my expections will be pretty low.
That was one of the strengths of the original L&O: it was basically actor-proof. None of this personalized drama that SVU seems to get into a lot.
I mean, of course we all know *why* SVU does this - can't really avoid it, with a show about sex crimes - but the mothership's total avoidance of personal lives is more than a bit refreshing.
If L&O shows were Trek characters: The original would be Spock; SVU would be McCoy; and CI would be Kirk.
I read somewhere recently that Balcer was involved in the development of a new show at present but can't recall where I read or what the show is.
IMDB and Wiki don't help so maybe my memory is faulty as well as my reading comprehension
Would it really take the record for longest running live action drama? It might however take the record for longest running US live action drama series.
It's ratings were stable for a 20 year old show that kept being moved around. They should have gave it a final 13 episodes to"beat" the season record. Then launched LA midseason.
Law & Order may have tied the season record that Gunsmoke set, but it didn't go anywhere near the episode record - Gunsmoke had more eps per season than any L&O show ever did, so L&O still has a way to go yet.
