Dopo la notizia dell’uscita dalla serie di Chris Meloni, un altro attore abbandona SVU: si tratta di B.D. Wong, che interpreta lo psichiatra forense George Huang. L’attore sarà infatti impegnato in una nuova serie della NBC chiamata “Awake”; lui stesso ha confermato la notizia via twitter, aggiungendo di non sapere se apparirà un’ultima volta in Unità Speciale per dare chiusura al suo personaggio. 

La stagione 10 di Criminal Intent, da poco conclusasi sulla USA Network, era da sempre stata annunciata come l’ultima della serie. Ma Dick Wolf, gli interpreti D’Onofrio ed Erbe, e anche molti fan avevano sperato che la rete ritornasse sulla sua decisione.

Non sarà così: il network ha infatti confermato che non ci sarà una stagione 11 di LO:CI. 

Questo è l’articolo di tvline.com

Though franchise founder Dick Wolf had been angling for Law & Order: Criminal Intent toearn a reprieve by delivering a solid 10th and final season, a resurrection simply won’t be happening, USA Network’s top brass tell TVLine.

Asked if there was any chance for a semi-miraculous save and Season 11 order, given the warm welcome that returning regulars Vincent D’Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe received, USA co-president Jeff Wachtel answered, “No — and this is said with respect for the show, respect for Dick [Wolf], and most significantly with respect to the audience.”

At the time that Season 10 was greenlit, with D’Onofrio’s Goren and Erbe’s Eames back on duty, Wachtel says, “We had a conversation internally, and [NBC Universal chair] Bonnie [Hammer] was phenomenally supportive of [the idea that] you’ve got to honor your contract with the audience. We as a cable network don’t want to pull the plug and leave people being upset — ‘Wait, what happened to my show?’ — so we very carefully and wonderfully staged a final season.”

Despite premiering strongly (with 5.6 million total viewers) and averaging some 1.6 mil in the coveted 18-49 demo throughout the season, Criminal Intent was not profitable for USA — a liability that was foreseen well ahead of time. “Given the ratings we could anticipate, and given the expense of the show, we knew it was a money-losing venture for us,” Wachtel notes.

Though some viewers feel the episode that closed the decade-old procedural didn’t scream “series finale,” Wachtel contends that all signs were there if you looked for them. “The fact that we introduced a psychiatrist (played by Julia Ormond) into the mix, and that a significant part of the season was about the healing of Bobby Goren and taking him out of an awful journey and into a place of relative emotional health…. For a Dick Wolf show that was much more character-based than you ever see.”

As the final hour wrapped, Goren emerged from his final mandatory shrink session and headed off to a new crime scene with Eames. “We felt that was a great place to leave things,” says Wachtel. “It was a good series finale.”

The silver lining to Criminal Intent‘s definitively final run? As part of its legacy, it leaves its lead-out, In Plain Sight, a healthier series. “That was a great opportunity, to pair [them] on Sunday nights, where both had a lot of strength,” explains USA co-president Chris McCumber. “This past Sunday, when [In Plain Sight] didn’t have the Criminal Intent lead-in, it actually grew [in three target demo measures]. The tandem ended up making In Plain Sight an even stronger show.”

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Forse per riconquistare gli spettatori delusi dall’uscita di scena di Chris Meloni dalla serie, gli showrunners di Law & Order: Unità Speciale hanno deciso di reintrodurre nella stagione 13 della serie i personaggi delle procuratrici Alex Cabot (Stephanie March) e Casey Novak (Diane Neal), ognuna delle quali apparirà in diversi episodi.

L’articolo di tvline.com

Two of Law & Order: SVU‘s most popular ADAs — Stephanie March and Diane Neal — are headed back to the show this fall.

An SVU spokesperson confirms that the pair will return for “an undetermined number of episodes” during SVU‘s upcoming 13th season.

The news comes a week after the show tapped Danny Pino and Kelli Giddish to help fill the detective void left by Chris Meloni. Leading lady Mariska Hargitay, meanwhile, will appear in all 22 episodes, although her Benson character is expected to segue into more of a supervisory role.