Latest in Dick Wolf

EXCLUSIVE: In his first foray into the premium TV series marketplace, uber producer Dick Wolf is prepping American Babylon, a period drama chronicling the epic story of the creation of Las Vegas – the American Dream written in blood and neon. He has partnered on the project with long-time collaborator Tom Thayer…

At the start of the year, Peacock closed a mega deal for the majority of Dick Wolf's library including the Law & Order and Chicago franchises. A month later, the uber producer signed a huge nine-figure deal spanning broadcast and streaming that will keep him at sibling Universal Television for at least five years. So…

UPDATED 3:30 PM: Law & Order creator/executive producer Dick Wolf has taken swift action after social media posts by writer-producer Craig Gore about the ongoing unrest in Los Angeles following George Floyd’s death drew criticism. UPDATE: Following Gore’s dismissal from the NBC show, he also was dropped by his agency P…

Dick Wolf has always envisioned FBI as a franchise and pitched the original series to CBS that way from the start. The success of the original series and FBI: Most Wanted has increased chatter of a second spinoff. CBS Entertainment President Kelly Kahl didn't dampen these hopes in an interview with Deadline. "We are…

It's been a busy week in the Dick Wolf universe. The Law & Order creator scored a straight-to-series order for a new series starring Christopher Meloni reprising his Law & Order: SVU role as Elliot Stabler, as revealed today by Deadline. Tonight, it’s also the unexpected season finale of FBI after production on the…

EXCLUSIVE: A beloved TV character is coming back. NBC has given a 13-episode series order to a new Dick Wolf crime drama series starring Christopher Meloni reprising his Law & Order: SVU role as Elliot Stabler. The SVU spinoff drama, which marks the actor’s return to Wolf World, revolves around the NYPD organized…

Dick Law & Order: SVU is making television history this season with its record-setting 21st season, making it TV's longest-running primetime live-action series.  And Dick Wolf;s venerable crime drama starring Mariska Hargitay is nowhere near done. NBC has given Law & Order: SVU a new three-year renewal for Seasons 22…

NBC has given more high-performing drama series three-year renewals. All three series in Dick Wolf’s Chicago franchise have been picked up for three more seasons. Flagship Chicago Fire has been renewed through Season 11, Chicago P.D. through Season 10, and Chicago Med through Season 8. The massive pickup is part of a m…

Dick Wolf is becoming NBCUniversal’s Billion-Dollar Man. The uber producer has signed a massive new five-year, nine-figure deal spanning broadcast and streaming that would keep him and his Wolf Entertainment at Universal Television, his studio home for the past 36 years. The giant studio re-up follows the mega…

Dick Wolf has been an integral part of the NBCUniversal brand for three decades — both on the network and studios side, with his formidable Law & Order and Chicago franchises airing on NBC and being produced by Universal Television, now part of NBCUniversal Content Studios. Because of that legacy, when NBCUniversal…

Peacock, the long-anticipated streaming service created by NBCUniversal and Comcast, will be shown off to investors and the media later today, three months before its official consumer launch. The showcase event at 4 PM ET at NBCU’s home base of 30 Rock — whose plaza features a flower-bedecked, illuminated, 40-foot…

CBS' FBI and FBI: Most Wanted could be joined by another spinoff in the not so distant future. Executive producer Dick Wolf has always envisioned FBI as a franchise, and pitched the original series to CBS that way from the get-go. We hear that Wolf, who co-created mothership FBI with Craig Turk, has had conversations…