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What if one of the many incidents of actors getting injured on Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark had a tragic outcome? Law & Order: Criminal Intent will explore such a scenario in an upcoming episode clearly inspired by the debacle that the Spider-Man musical had become, TVLine reports. In the fictional version, the splashy musical is titled Icarus, from a high-strung director and a secretly bisexual rock-star composer. This is the latest episode of the Law & Order franchise featuring ripped-from-the-headlines stories this season. CI is also doing an episode starring Jay Mohr as a Charlie Sheen-like character, and Law & Order: LA is doing an episode inspired by the murder of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen.
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There’ll be a musical ABOUT the musical before Turn Off The Dark opens.
-G.
Okay, we get it, “Law & Order” rips its stories from the headlines. But have they got to rip them from the bottom of the barrel? Hasn’t Spidey suffered enough? With great budgets comes great banality! Thwap!
Sweet. I love the ripped from the headlines episodes. Sincerely I do.
Speaking of weird ripped-from-the-headlines stories: 3 years ago, after L&O’s showrunner was nearly run down while picketing during the writer’s strike, said showrunner turned around and did an episode in which an obnoxious picketer is actually run down and killed.
I guess it means you’ve made it when you become an L&O episode.
This is a Law & Order episode that I am definitely going to tune in to watch.
the greatest show on t.v Criminal Intent with the best detectives Goren AND Eames networks are idiots if they end the show!!!!!!
@rick I love Criminal Intent also, but at least they have the opportunity to do a final season on their terms. Vincent D’Nofrio unfortunately just got tired. Can’t wait for new season! It will be epic. Look at this way; if it goes on and on it may just get dragged along and slowly die.