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Warren Leight is returning to the Law & Order franchise as executive producer and showrunner of NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Leight is finalizing a deal to succeed Neal Baer, who, after 11 year at the helm of SVU, is leaving the crime drama at the end of the season to segue into a rich three-year overall deal with CBS TV Studios. With an experienced showrunner like Leight in place, NBC and Dick Wolf have solved one of the two issues SVU faces in its quest for a 13th season. The other is re-signing stars Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni, whose deals are up at the end of the season. The two have just started talks with the network, with the pace of the negotiations expected to pick up during the next couple of weeks.
Playwright Leight got his first full-time TV writing job on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which he joined in the second season. He rose through the ranks to serve as executive producer/showrunner before leaving in 2006 to take over same duties on HBO’s In Treatment for its second season. A year later, Leight moved to FX, where he reworked the pilot for boxing drama Lights Out and served as executive producer/showrunner on the series, which garnered critical acclaim but didn’t get traction with viewers and was recently canceled. WME-repped Leight was approached for the SVU gig before FX’s decision last month not to renew Lights Out.
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God I hope he saves this show and takes it back to what it was a few years ago.
I am a long time fan of Law and Order and even like to watch the reruns. Recently there has been something that is really annoying to me. The back ground music is not back ground music it is loud music that prevents hearing what the people are saying. The person
who plays Bobby (my favorite) speaks sort of quiet and so does Eanes and when they are conversing It is hard to understand what they are saying.. When there is action there is no music, just when people are talking.
Adios Neal Baer. I hope Diane Neal was at home getting the last laugh as NBC ran those promos advertising her character as “SVU’s best” a couple of weeks ago.
I agree with CM. Thank God something is changing. This show has gotten awful. Maybe he’ll fire most of the current writing staff to freshen things up. Then he can clean house in the actor department. Re-Cast either Mariska Hargitay or Chris Maloney, and give the other a new partner, give Ice-T and Richard Belzer more to do and bring back Diane Neal. (After last week’s episode, it proves she’s still got it). What was once a relevant and good show, has now become typical NBC crap.
Amen! I really do love watching Law & Order. They’re a guilty pleasure in recent years, but once upon a time, they were great. I’m still disappointed the original didn’t get an 11th hour save. Linus Roache was terrific. I’ll finally check out the LA version, but only because they brought in the luminous Alana De La Garza.
But SVU, which at one point was the best of the bunch, has become this silly, written by numbers predictable mess. Every single line is either a “punchline,” or set up for the supposed zinger. Please go back to your roots. Stop trying to win your two stars Emmys every week with “a very special episode.” How about making all of them special THEN make a “very” special one?
I’m rooting for you!
When Warren was at CI, that’s when it became the critical hit … when he left, the scripts sucked and D’Onofrio and Erbe left. It was a freakin’ mess. He’s a genius … and, no I am not his brother … or, mother!
The first five seasons, when someone else — Not Leight — was running the writing, was when it was a critical — and ratings — hit.
Damn, I was hoping Lights Out could get a second life on another channel. I guess its officially over.
She is the best. If Warren and the network are smart, they’ll bring her back permanently. But who are we kidding, it’s NBC. They haven’t been smart since 2004.
You’re wrong about that. NBC now has Bob Greenblatt running the network, not Jeff Zucker.
Yep, best thing SVU could do would be to bring Novak back, best SVU ep in a while. Get it back to being SVU and not the Olivia and Elliot variety hour.
And I agree Clem, i hope Diane got a kick out of those ads!
I actually think SVU has been great!! I hope that they have many more seasons! I love Liv and El!!!
I’ve been watching the old reruns on USA and the new episodes are terrible compared to the past. The episodes used to have a decent story to follow but now you can tell the ending within the 1st few minutes. The characters don’t seem to care about the victims either. It’s become a race to see who can make the snappiest comeback. Don’t know if I can watch another season. At least with the Elliott/Olivia angle there was something to hope for. Now, no one cares anymore. Good luck…
I totally love Law and Order: SVU! I think that it is a fantastic show, and all of the actors and characters are fantastic! I think that they are still amazing and I love everyone on that show! I think that Warren is doing an amazing job, and I think that the show has been compelling, hard – hitting, gritty, susensful, entertaining, and unconditionally amazing since season 1! I <3 SVU!!!