Developing a project and having it receive the green light is not an easy task. Getting into the audience and surviving the first season is another achievement. But receiving one renewal after another until celebrating 26 seasons in primetime in the United States is already a record. This is what Detective Olivia Benson, played by Mariska Hargitay, is achieving with her Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, which is airing its twenty-fifth season and the NBC channel has confirmed its twenty-sixth season for next fall.
This season gave the feeling that, if you were a veteran series and you were not Grey’s Anatomy, you had many issues of being canceled. The creators of Young Sheldon say that its end is for creative reasons but others such as The Good Doctor, Station 19 and Blue Bloods have been canceled with good audiences due to the increase in costs derived from their seniority. But, luckily for free-to-air television lovers, now is the time to discover the renewals.
In addition to Law & Order: SVU, which has been on the air solving sex crimes in New York since 1999, it has also renewed the original Law & Order, which premiered in 1990 and will air its 24th season next fall. How come it has fewer seasons than Hargitay’s police series? Due to its eventful broadcast: in 2010, when it was broadcasting its twentieth season, it was canceled by NBC, which resurrected the format in 2022.
The Law & Order franchise, created by Dick Wolf, is not the only one to receive good news. The three Chicago series, also created by Wolf, have also been renewed: Chicago Fire, the firefighters series, will have season 13, Chicago P.D., the police series, will have season 12, and Chicago Med, the doctors series, will produce season 10. As a curiosity, they are part of the Law & Order universe, taking into account that they have shared crossovers.
