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Almost 12 years after Law & Order was abruptly canceled by NBC, Dick Wolf's Emmy-winning drama series is returning Feb. 24 for a 21st season, which features Sam Waterston and Anthony Anderson reprising their roles from the original series, joined by new cast additions Jeffrey Donovan, Camryn Manheim, Hugh Dancy and…

EXCLUSIVE:  Chicago P.D. writer/executive producer Gwen Sigan has been promoted to showrunner. She is taking the reins of the long-running NBC series as part of an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, which produces the cop drama. Sigan replaces Rick Eid who has served as Chicag…

Eleven and a half years after NBC abruptly canceled Law & Order, denying its shot at making TV history, the network is bringing back Dick Wolf’s Emmy-winning series for a new season, its 21st. NBC has greenlighted a new installment of Law & Order, from Wolf and writer-showrunner Rick Eid, which will continue the…

There is a second showrunner change on CBS' high-profile new fall drama series FBI, from Law & Order and Chicago boss Dick Wolf, Universal TV and CBS TV Studios. Greg Plageman, who joined the series as showrunner in late July, replacing Craig Turk, is stepping down. He is being replaced by two of Wolf’s top…

Chicago P.D. showrunner Rick Eid is extending his relationship with Universal TV, signing a new two-year overall deal with the studio behind the hit NBC series. Under the pact, Eid, who took the reins of Chicago P.D. last summer, will continue as showrunner and executive producer on the cop drama, which is airing its…

Rick Eid is leaving NBC crime drama Law & Order: SVU after a one-year showrunner stint but staying in the Dick Wolf family. He will be moving over to take the reins of Chicago PD as executive producer/showrunner, succeeding Matt Olmstead, who left and is now under an overall deal at ABC Studios. Eid is under…

Rick Eid is joining Dick Wolf’s veteran NBC crime drama Law & Order: SVU as executive producer and showrunner for the upcoming 18th season. He will succeed Warren Leight, who a year ago inked an overall deal with Sony TV but stayed on as SVU showrunner for its current 17th season. For Eid, the SVU gig will fall under…

Two decades after an unproduced emergency room-set screenplay by Michael Crichton became the biggest show on television, NBC’s ER, another unproduced medical drama screenplay by the bestselling author and Harvard-educated MD is headed to television. CBS has given a put pilot commitment to Genes, from ER producer…

One of the most successful combinations in network drama has been CBS, Jerry Bruckheimer and crime procedural. Now the ingredients are back together in a new hourlong project — this time on the legal side — which has received a put pilot commitment from CBS. Acquittal, which hails from Jerry Bruckheimer TV and Warner…