Cancel your plans, Law & Order followers: The NBC franchise is about to take up your complete evening.
An unprecedented three-way crossover between the unique Law & Order, SVU and Organized Crime is formally set for Thursday, Sept. 22 at 8/7c, NBC has confirmed. (TVLine first reported the crossover final month.) The crossover will function the season premiere for all three exhibits, combining all three casts for a singular three-hour story. Technically, the primary hour can be an Organized Crime episode, adopted by SVU after which Law & Order.
The plot facilities round a younger lady shot in chilly blood, with Law & Order detectives Cosgrove and Shaw (performed by new solid addition Mehcad Brooks) looking for her killer. SVU‘s Benson and Organized Crime‘s Stabler are known as in to assist, and as soon as key proof is uncovered, Law & Order‘s Jack McCoy and Nolan Price “seek justice against an international crime ring,” per the official description, “but complications threaten the outcome of their case.”
In a brand new promo — which you’ll watch above — we hear snippets of dialogue from all the important thing gamers, with Benson declaring “this was a coordinated attack” earlier than suggesting: “I’d like to combine forces, work this case together.” And identical to that, Stabler is again at her aspect as soon as once more.
“Nothing demonstrates the power of the Law & Order brand more than an ambitious three-hour event with a story that is truly ripped from the headlines that starts on Organized Crime, then migrates to SVU and finally the trial on Law & Order,” govt producer Dick Wolf stated in an announcement. “Rick [Eid] and Gwen [Sigan] did an amazing job writing a compelling script, and I can’t think of a bigger and better way to launch the new season of Law & Order Thursday.”
“Unlike other crossovers, this is structured and produced more like a movie,” Law & Order showrunner Rick Eid instructed TVLine as a part of our upcoming, in-depth Fall Preview. “It’s not a handoff from one show to the next. It’s really one story that involves all the characters from the different shows.”
Most of the Law & Order solid will return for Season 22, together with Hugh Dancy as senior prosecutorial assistant Nolan Price, Oldelya Halevi as ADA Samantha Maroun, Camryn Manheim as Lt. Kate Dixon, Jeffrey Donovan as Frank Cosgrove and Sam Waterston as DA Jack McCoy. Plus, Grimm’s Claire Coffee will seem in at the very least one episode this season, as a lawyer.
Anthony Anderson, nevertheless, is not going to be again as Det. Kevin Bernard. (As TVLine beforehand reported, Anderson had signed on for only one 12 months of the NBC revival.) Bernard’s exit can be addressed within the season’s second episode, Eid reveals: “It’s in the time-honored tradition of Law & Order where it’s very brief and it’s like, ‘Moving on. Here we go. We’ve got to solve the case.’”
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