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“I can confirm that (Law & Order) has moved into the history books, the franchise creator Dick Wolf said at the opening of the TCA session for the latest spinoff, Law & Order: Los Angeles, putting an end to any speculation that the show still may find a new home. He opened the LOLA session with a statement:
“We were extremely disappointed that Law & Order is not coming back for a record 21st season. But that’s life. All series start with a death sentence, they just don’t give you the date of execution. The past is the past, and this (LOLA) is a new show.”
After the panel, Wolf also squashed speculation about a possible Law & Order movie, stressing that this indeed was the end of Law & Order as we know it and saying that he was able to tell all stories he had wanted to tell within the framework of that show.
During the session, he refused to discuss whether financial issues led to the cancellation of the veteran series on NBC, only stressing that “in the 23 years I’ve been continuously on the air, we’ve never failed to make a deal when there was a deal to be made.”
The new series, LOLA, will be closer to the mothership than fellow spinoffs Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: CI, in terms of having the police and legal side play equal parts. “I’m not paying (Alfred Molina and Terrence Howard) to be secondary characters,” Wolf said. Molina and Howard have signed on alternate playing Assistant D.A.s on the show.
In terms of look, LOLA will be keeping the “Ching-ching” sound effect and the act cards but the rest is still in flux, Wolf said.
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Maybe it’s just me but I would have ate the cost. did a short season of like 10 eps and lived forever in history.
but I’m a narcissist
This epitaph is ten years overdue, baby.
Aye
Perhaps we’ll see the original “Law and Order” end as a TV-movie, which can tie-up “loose ends”.
The cost was high, sure, but they would’ve been able to milk the “record-breaking final season” thing all year long. Canceling it, but replacing it with the same show, only not exactly the same show, is just plain absurd.
Agreed. I think that was a giant mistake by NBC with marketing alone. The 20th season of L&O was pretty shoddy ratings wise. Publicity of the final season would have improved the ratings, and it would have made a better launching pad for LOLA.
Not the same show….how can one compare New York and LA? Different locales lend themselves to different storylines…..LA has so much to offer….it is high time someone shatter the storybook image of a celebrity culture that is presented by the mainstream media.
More like “cha-ching.” Wolf should have replaced the closing cell-door sound with a cash register ring decades ago, considering how much $ this franchise brings in.
it is what it is….at least the show ended on a very nice bittersweet note—a rare personal moment for the show and not just ending after the ADA reflecting on the case they either just won or lost.
The ending moments to what ended up being the series finale were both a fitting way to end the 20 year show as well as quite possibly the perfect way to end it.
No grandstanding, no eloquent statements about the justice system, no shocking moments or twists, just a nice, quick personal moment from one of the main characters privately taking a phone call and learning that her cancer just went into remission…and then thanking god for a brief moment before going back to join everyone in the cast who had all gathered to say goodbye to her in the first place.
It was all done in a perfectly low key matter of fact, this is happening, realistic tone that is perfectly keeping in tone with the show’s 20 year history of relatively low key dramatics and even keeled tone.
Honestly could anyone have purposely written a better scene or a better note for the show to end on??? Maybe the episode itself was more or less an average ep–(and that’s how it’ll play in reruns on tnt years from now) but those last three or four minutes couldn’t have been a better ending for the show–even if the network and writers had spent months building up it.
also its not like there were no loose ends to tie up or character fates to worry over. The show had quite honestly the perfect ending.
“Stick to formula”? What, more uber-liberal bullhockey? Thanks, but no thanks.
too bad. for i was hoping a miracle happen and the mother law and order ended up with a new home and with the record at last. but some things are not meant to be
I’m confused. Wolf says he’s sorry the show won’t be back for another season AND he’s told every possible story he wanted to tell. Contradictory, no?
I dare think the difference in shows will be an updated “Chung-chung” vs the old “ching-ching”.
Although I’m not a big fan of police dramas the episodes of this show that I saw were pretty good. A new show set in LA should produce at least a few new storylines. One thing I definitely DO NOT want to see in the new shows is that CAMERA SHAKING BULLSHIT. If your moving your head around as much as the camera motion is trying to simulate, you’r probably trashed and need to go home and sleep it off. A little bit of that crap may be usefull in certain scenes, but don’t overdo it. Believe me, I can’t recall one person telling me they thought that shit was cool or ‘artsy’ or whatever. Unless you’r filming a Romulan attack on the USS Enterprise and need to simulate explosion effects, please leave this SHITTY technique out.
law and order criminal intent another great show with JEFF GOLBLUM
HOPE HE DOESN’T GIVE UP ON THAT ONE !!!
I still remember the first episode. I hate to see it go since it is my favorite show and with all the cast changes, it stayed great. All good things must come to an end.
will mr wolf tie up loose ends from the law&order series.
case in point brown minilla envelope in mc coy’s
desk.
thanks