Law & Order: Organized Crime is FINALLY renewed for a fifth season – but the SVU spinoff is leaving NBC for a new network

Fans of Law & Order: Organized Crime can breathe a sigh of relief after the series has been renewed for a fifth season.

Sources said the show is finalizing a deal for an upcoming 10-episode season, which is significantly less than previous seasons, according Deadline.

Last month, it was reported that the series’ renewal was not certain due to relatively low ratings and multiple changes in showrunners.

The shorter, ten-episode season of Organized Crime will also have a new home.

Instead of airing on NBC like other Law & Order shows, Organized Crime will find a new home on the network’s Peacock streaming service.

The show will stream exclusively there, and fans can also find next-day episodes of other Wolf Entertainment shows, including the flagship Law & Order and SVU, as well as Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Chicago Med.

These shows are among the most popular on the Steamboat, according to Deadline, so it could be a logical choice to draw viewers’ attention to organized crime.

While season one of the show only contained eight episodes, the second and third seasons featured a standard network size of 22 episodes each.

However, amid anemic ratings, the fourth season was downgraded to just 13 episodes, and the streaming-only fifth season will further reduce that to 10 episodes.

While fans are happy to have the chance to see Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) return via crossover episodes and team up with his former partner Olivia Benson (SVU’s Mariska Hargitay), Meloni can’t play off his charm with old friend Hargitay for most Organized Crime episodes.

Instead, the show takes a noticeably darker tone and stars an even more obsessive version of the character than he debuted on SVU.

Organized Crime is also a structural departure, as it follows a serialized story rather than being a show of the week like most other Law & Order entries, which may turn off some viewers who would rather not pay as much attention to the show and instead just want to tune in whenever they want.

While moving to a new network is a rarity for Law & Order shows, it isn’t the first time this has happened, as Law & Order: Criminal Intent previously aired its final four seasons on the USA Network after the first six aired on the usual of the franchise had aired. home, NBC.

In addition to Meloni, the cast is completed by Danielle Moné Truitt, Ainsley Seiger and Rick Gonzalez.

The series, which concluded its fourth season last month, centers on Stabler, a veteran detective who returns to the NYPD after his wife is murdered.

The series was renewed for a smaller 10-episode season and is moving from NBC to its Peacock streaming service; Christopher Meloni depicted on organized crime

The show centers on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit character Elliot Stabler (Meloni), a veteran detective who returns to the NYPD after his wife is murdered.

Stabler joins the Organized Crime Task Force, led by Sergeant Ayanna Bell (Truitt).

Last month, Deadline reported that a renewal was in the air even as the flagship series and SVU were renewed for seasons 24 and 26, respectively.

Organized Crime has scored the lowest ratings of producer Dick Wolf’s NBC shows and has changed showrunners several times.

Matt Olmstead led the first season before being replaced by The L Word’s Ilene Chaiken, who was then replaced by Barry O’Brien.

Bryan Goluboff was the first showrunner for season three, but he left after just three months, with replacement Sean Jablonski leaving due to “creative differences.”

David Graziano subsequently replaced him, while John Shiban served as showrunner for season four.

Organized Crime aired in 2021.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which serves as a spinoff of the original Law & Order series, originally premiered in September 1999.

Organized Crime may have suffered in ratings because it takes a darker tone than other Law & Order shows, and it has a serialized storyline rather than a case-of-the-week structure.

Fans are excited to see Meloni reunite with former SVU costar Mariska Hargitay (R) in crossover episodes, but organized crime keeps him working apart most of the time

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit had already been renewed for season 26 (pictured by Mariska Hargitay and Ice-T in the show), but Organized Crime’s renewal was postponed due to low ratings and numerous changes in showrunners

The flagship Law & Order has been renewed for season 24 (pictured Camryn Manheim as Lieutenant Kate Dixon, Sam Waterston as District Attorney Jack McCoy, Bruce Altman as Mayor Payne)

The Dick Wolf-created show, starring Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson and Ice-T as Sergeant Odafin “Fin” Tutuola, has since surpassed its predecessor’s episode count to become one of the longest-running programs in television history. .

The latest season of the program premiered in January, and NBC celebrated the show’s 25th anniversary by temporarily changing the name of Rockefeller Plaza to Olivia Benson Plaza.

The new season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will also be the shortest in the show’s history, as it will only last 13 episodes.

Law & Order ran for 20 seasons until its original cancellation, which occurred in 2010. It was revived for a 21st season in 2021.