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‘Law & Order’ Co-Star Alana De La Garza Joins Spinoff ‘Law & Order: Los Angeles’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 28, 2011 @ 4:45pm PSTTags: Law & Order Franchise, Law & Order Revamp, Law & Order: LA Casting, Law & Order:LA, Law & Order:LA Actors, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

Law & Order: Los Angeles is adding a touch of Law & Order. Alana De La Garza, who co-starred on the mothership series, will join the spinoff, reprising her character as A.D.A. Connie Rubirosa. On the show, from Wolf Films and UMS, Rubirosa will work with D.D.A. Jonah Dekker (Terrence Howard).

This completes the creative and casting overhaul of LOLA, which included the shift of Alfred Molina’s Ricardo Morales from a prosecutor to a detective partnered with TJ Jaruszalski (Corey Stoll) and the departure of Skeet Ulrich, Regina Hall and Megan Boone. There is no return date set for the show yet as NBC brass is giving the producers more time to work on the revamp.

SDB Partners-repped De La Garza was the most recent ADA on Law & Order. She joined at the beginning of Season 17 and was on the show for  4 seasons, until the veteran procedural’s end in May. Her addition creates a stronger tie between Law & Order: Los Angeles and Law & Order and makes the new series a more traditional spinoff, which features character(s) from the original series. “I hope fans of the ‘mothership’ will be happy to see the return of Alana’s character, Connie Rubirosa, one of the longest-running assistant prosecutors on Law & Order,” L&O creator Dick Wolf said. “Alana has a huge following and it will be interesting to follow her character as she comes to terms with Los Angeles justice.”

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Dick Wolf’s Plan Unveiled For Fixing ‘LOLA’, Alfred Molina Will Become A Detective

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 12, 2011 @ 6:00pm PSTTags: Alfred Molina, Dick Wolf, Dick Wolf Law & Order: LA, Law & Order Franchise, Law & Order Revamp, Law & Order:LA, Law & Order:LA Recasting, Skeet Ulrich Departure, TV
Nellie Andreeva

NBC’s Law & Order: Los Angeles is being revamped, and, in its new incarnation, it will closely resemble creator Dick Wolf’s original vision for the spinoff (as well as the setup of the mothership Law & Order series). There will … Read More »

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WME Wins ‘Law & Order’ Mogul Dick Wolf

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 29, 2010 @ 8:23am PSTTags: Agents, Dick Wolf, Dick Wolf Leaves UTA, Dick Wolfe Law & Order, Law & Order Franchise, NBC Universal, Rick Rosen, TV, TV Deals, Wolf Films
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: WME is the victor in the very lucrative Dick Wolf sweepstakes. After taking a month and a half following his surprising exit from UTA to ponder his top agency options, the Law & Order creator has signed … Read More »

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EXCLUSIVE: Dick Wolf Leaves UTA; Source Says He Was “Frustrated & Nervous”; Why He Could Sign With ICM, WME, Or CAA

By NIKKI FINKE AND NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 12, 2010 @ 9:31pm PDTTags: Agents, Chris Silbermann, Dick Wolf, Dick Wolf Leaves UTA, Law & Order Franchise, Rick Rosen, TV

UPDATE From Nikki Finke: “Dick has been unhappy for a while,” one source is telling me as the reason behind Dick Wolf leaving UTA, his agency of 11 years. (Deadline TV Editor Nellie Andreeva broke the news today. See below.) Wolf was close with Peter Benedek and had a friendship with Tracey Jacobs there. But in the end, when it comes to Wolf, it’s all about network series, and “he was frustrated and nervous,” one of my sources explains, which says more about Wolf as a producer after all his success than about UTA’s ability as an agency. “More than anything, he was always frustrated that he couldn’t get any non-Law & Order show on the air in recent years and that he couldn’t build a franchise outside. And he was very frustrated that NBC didn’t give Law & Order classic another year so it could become the longest running American drama series of all time [instead of tied with Gunsmoke]. He’s also worried: he sees that Criminal Intent is in its last cycle next year, that LOLA is not coming out of the gate like gangbusters, and that SVU is fading so that if NBC wasn’t in such terrible straits it wouldn’t even last another 2-3 years even though Dick is the master of stretching those. Look, you know the man, he’s a very vibrant, virile, alpha male-type guy. I’m sure he wanted UTA to shake some nuts off the tree and get more stuff going for him.” Read More »

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Now I Know Why ‘L&O: LA’ Was Such Crap

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday October 6, 2010 @ 6:01pm PDTTags: Dick Wolf, Dick Wolf Law & Order: LA, Law & Order, Law & Order Franchise, Law & Order:LA, TV



UPDATE: Deadline commenters are so right: 2nd LOLA outing tonight was vastly improved story- and dialogue-wise. Plus, Terence Howard nailed it. That said, I do hope the next Hollywood plot will suck less…

Previous: Tonight is the 2nd episode of Law & Order: Los Angeles after the first one sucked. Following that unfortunate debut, Dick Wolf stopped by Kate Mantilini restaurant in Beverly Hills for breakfast and conversation with Los Angeles magazine about the series and the city. Look, I love all things Law & Order, and  René Balcer, and the franchise’s writing and plotting. But LOLA reeked bigtime. Now I know why: here’s what Wolf said about his desire to have the show portray LA stereotypes: “It is the way of fruits and nuts. We are trying to fulfill an expectation of what LA is about. The first episode was very deliberate — it’s not going to be Hollywood every week, but I thought it really was the best way to introduce the show, to show that it was really different from the New York version.” Well, Dick, you thought wrong. That was precisely the problem with the first show, and I fear it’s going to be the problem with the series’ view of Hollywood as it pertains to LA: You can be cynical. You can be subversive. But, jeez, you just can’t be so obvious and boring. There wasn’t one thing in that first crapfest that didn’t insult my veteran LA resident’s intelligence.

More excerpts courtesy of the mag’s website: Read More »

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Rachel Ticotin Joins ‘Law & Order: LA’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 16, 2010 @ 12:48pm PDTTags: Law & Order Franchise, Law & Order:LA, Law & Order:LA Actors, Law & Order:LA Casting, Rachel Ticotin, TV Casting, Wanda De Jesus
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Ticotin is set to co-star on NBC’s upcoming series Law & Order: Los Angeles. Ticotin will join the Wolf Films/UMS crime drama as a regular, replacing Wanda De Jesus who recently departed the series. Ticotin will play … Read More »

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The Future Of USA’s ‘Law & Order: Criminal Intent’ Still In Limbo, May Return For Final Hurrah Sans Jeff Goldblum

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 3, 2010 @ 1:46pm PDTTags: Cable TV, Jeff Goldblum, Law & Order Franchise, Law & Order: CI Final Season, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Criminal Intent USA, USA Programming, Vincent D'Onofrio
Nellie Andreeva

There has been a lot of speculation about the future of Law & Order: Criminal Intent on USA in the past month or so. I hear the network looked at a number of scenarios, including a full-season pickup, two-season pickup … Read More »

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TCA: Dick Wolf Confirms Mothership ‘Law & Order’ Series Is Dead

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 30, 2010 @ 11:56am PDTTags: Dick Wolf, Dick Wolfe Law & Order, Law & Order, Law & Order Franchise, Law & Order:LA, LOLA, TCA, TV
Nellie Andreeva

“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. … Read More »

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Terrence Howard To Join ‘Law & Order: LA’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 30, 2010 @ 11:05am PDTTags: Alfred Molina, Corey Stoll, Law & Order Franchise, Law & Order:LA, Law & Order:LA Actors, Law & Order:LA Casting, LOLA, Skeet Ulrich, Terrence Howard, TV, TV Shows
Nellie Andreeva

Terrence Howard is boarding NBC’s upcoming Law & Order spinoff, Law & Order: Los Angeles, joining Alfred Molina, Skeet Ulrich and Corey Stoll.

Howard will play a new Deputy D.A. who will work alongside Deputy D.A. Morales (Molina). Howard and Molina will … Read More »

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Corey Stoll Joins Cast Of ‘Law & Order: LA’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 29, 2010 @ 2:34pm PDTTags: Alfred Molina, Corey Stoll, Law & Order Franchise, Law & Order:LA, Law & Order:LA Casting, LOLA, Skeet Ulrich, TV, TV Casting
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Corey Stoll (Salt) has landed the detective co-lead opposite Skeet Ulrich on NBC’s upcoming Law & Order spinoff Law & Order: Los Angeles. He joins previously cast Ulrich and Alfred Molina. Stoll will play Detective Rex Winters’ (Ulrich) partner TJ … Read More »

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UTA Signs ‘L&O’ Veteran Rene Balcer

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday July 27, 2010 @ 2:38pm PDTTags: Agents, Law & Order, Law & Order Franchise, Law & Order:LA, NBC, TV, TV Shows, UTA
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Rene Balcer, a 20-year veteran of the Law & Order franchise, has signed with UTA, the agency that also represents the franchise creator Dick Wolf. For the past 8-10 years, Balcer was at CAA. Balcer serves as executive producer/showrunner … Read More »

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‘Law & Order: SVU’ Leaves New Jersey Over Nixed Tax Credit; May Move Into Old ‘Law & Order’ Digs

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 25, 2010 @ 4:00am PDTTags: Law & Order Franchise, Law & Order: SVU, NBC, Universal Media Studios
Nellie Andreeva

Law&Order_SVUEXCLUSIVE: Law & Order: SVU has become the first victim of New Jersey’s pending suspension of its film and TV production tax credit. The veteran NBC crime drama has been the highest profile TV series based in New Jersey. Its sets … Read More »

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