So you've likely heard the big news leading up to this week's upfront presentations by the major networks - after 20 seasons, NBC is finally giving the axe to Law and Order: Original Recipe. There's been some talk that NBC would let the show carry on to give Dick Wolf the honor of creating the longest-running dramatic series in prime time history (a mark it will now share with Gunsmoke, though the western aired more total episodes), but given NBC's sorry state, it's a smart move to clear out a series that's clearly past its prime (though for me, the show never quite got over the loss of Jerry Orbach, whose Lenny Briscoe was the quintessential New York detective).
And it's not like Wolf and company are going to be crying poor mouth. Law and Order: SVU is expected to carry on, and NBC's likely to announce tomorrow that they're picking up a Los Angeles-based version of the original show. So while the show that started the procedural craze (for better or worse) may be gone, it's offspring will continue to chug along.
More on the upfronts as they happen. That's pretty much the whole reason I started this blog in the first place.
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