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The 10th and final season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent got off to a great start last night with 5.1 million viewers tuning in, up a whopping 43% from the premiere of Season 9. With Vincent D’Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe back in full, the crime drama drew 1.9 million viewers in adults 18-49, up 35%. Despite the big start and Law & Order chief Dick Wolf recently expressed hope that the series could continue, USA co-president Jeff Wachtel said that the plan is to keep this the show’s final foray. “The idea truly was to reward the audience,” he said. “We wanted the audience to embrace the show’s final season whose theme is the healing of Bobby Goren (D’Onofrio) and bringing salvation.”
Also premiering last night was Season 4 of USA’s In Plain Sight, which averaged 3.9 million viewers, up 1% from the Season 3 debut, and 1.4 million 18-49 viewers, up 15%. The ratings for the show starring Mary McCormack were tracking great until the last 15-20 minutes, when there was a big drop-off just as news broke of Osama bin Laden’s killing. “We expected stiff competition, but we didn’t expect to be against bin Laden,” USA co-president Chris McCumber quipped. The network brass are already mulling adding extra airings of the season premiere.
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It’s doing better in the demo than Law and Order: LA on NBC.
I saw that. It’s a shame. Law and Order: LA has been solid since its reboot. Unfortunately, I feel that this franchise as a whole is coming to an end. Sorry Dick Wolf.
So if the creator and actors want to go on + audience is there, let’s cancel it. Clueless.
Don’t sweat it, DD, since it’s USA at least we know it won’t be replaced by a reality show…
Still, i’m hoping Jeff and the other “co-president” might change their mind(s)…
This is the best show of the franchise. Keep it going and put it back on NBC network where it belongs. Also don’t bale out on LOLA. This is a great show outstanding cast, let it develop, the audience will find it.
Det. Goren is an original and not a copy from across the Atlantic where the British seem to have a lock on the how-to of these sorts of procedural shows using eccentric protagonists. But if this was a British production it wouldn’t have lasted as long as it did. Their philosophy seems to be, let it live ‘for this amount of time’ and do not resuscitate. American TV has a different outlook that is more concerned with the cost and profits from longevity. So I like this decision. They know where the end is and so they can give it all they got.
Interesting choice by the CI producers not to go through some fancy hoops to get Goren and Eames back on the force, but just have them come back as if nothing happened. At least it got the story going quickly…
Actually, the episode where the reason for how Goren and Eames come back won’t air for another two or three weeks.
I have NO idea why they decided to air the episodes out of order.
Actually, the episode you are referring to is the second episode, The Consoler.
What?…..they will dump a popular Law & Order (USA) while keeping another Law & Order (NBC) that isn’t popular? Only in the logic of Hollywood….lol….
I officially quite LOLA. I gave it too many chances because I love Law & Order series but it was just painful to watch the last two episodes. How could they screw it up like that? You have original Law & Order, SVU, CI and all of them are watchable. Acting is great, script is good. And only LOLA is impossible to watch. So bad it is.
It would be great if they would keep Criminal Intent. And it’s not like Vincent D’Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe have any other things to do.
D’Onofrio is our greatest American living actor and Erbe is pretty freakin awesome, too. It’s too badHollywood doesn’t recognize them more.
@shy – unless you are d’onofrio, erbe or involved in any way with their lives and/or their careers, you don’t have a clue what else they have going on and should probably not speak as if you do.
I didn’t notice them doing anything of note during the year they had off AND they seem to have ran back without much delay to a network that dumped them pretty shabbily. I think it was a legitimate point.
D’Onofrio and Erbe have both expressed a willingness to return. As for their doing nothing during the past year, you must have slept for 12 months!
LOLA is quite good, Alfred Molina, Corey Stoll, and Alana de la Garza make that show.
But since this is about CI, I’m not surprised USA doesn’t want to continue. They’ve given this show 3 and half seasons, one of which is mainly why we have this final season in the first place. But I wouldn’t count it out yet. It may find life on another network.
And the episode, “Rispetto” is not the first episode. It was the fourth episode that was placed as the premiere in order to cash in on Charlie Sheen. Next week, is the initial first episode and most likely will explain the return, albeit three weeks later though.
I’m glad D’Onofrio and Erbe are back no matter how it happened. Next to the original L&O, CI has been at the top of my list. I was hoping that the producers would find a way to bring “Nicole Wallace” back to life for one more run at Goren.
Agree about Nicole Wallace, a great character. The producers really need to take another stab at Goren’s finale, that episode was a complete disgrace. ANd not that D’Inofrio lost all that weight, it makes sense to try it again!
VDO has done movies n KE has been doing independent films. They do have families that they have actually been able to finally spend more time with. I wouldn’t say they haven’t been doing anything. Might not really be notable to us but actually for them, I’m sure it’s a different story. Besides all good things must come to an end, I’ll miss them. There r reruns. Over the years they have sacrificed their personal lives n health for us fans, for that we all should be grateful for the final season with them. They didn’t have to do it.
If they cancel when both stars are willing to keep on for these shortened seasons, they deserve shooting. I agree that it should go back on NBC.
That show was ONLY good with Goren and Eames. In fact, it was great. Despite the sometimes outlandish plot and half-baked scripts, the casting was so good it transcended everything else.
Well that’s disappointing to hear. I admit though, the casefile in the premiere was bland, but I would watch Goren and Eames read the phone book to each other.
I hope the writers wrap things up nicely now that it’s been pretty much confirmed that this is the end.
I am so sad that this is the last season Law and Order CI! This is the one that got me hooked on Law and Order, its the best one! It only went downhill when you changed our detectives but now that they are back the show will stay a hit!