"Law & Order" axed after 20 years

[Cy-Kill]

Well, this is a sad day for TV, but I wonder what it means for the spin-off series, will they get canned as well:

NEW YORK - There was never any doubt that, someday, "Law & Order" would come to an end.

But the death sentence handed down by NBC on Friday caught many observers by surprise. Viewers weren't prepared to say farewell to this beloved TV warhorse. Not this way, with this sort of abruptness. And not with it on the brink of entering the history book as TV's longest-running drama.

What had been intended as the 20th-season finale, a solid but unexceptional episode, will air May 24 as the series conclusion. This would seem an injustice to the show's proud legacy. And an unceremonious end for its fans.

Maybe there weren't enough fans (this season, viewership has averaged 7.3 million viewers, the show's lowest ever and less than half the number at its height a decade ago). Maybe the show was too expensive to produce. Maybe NBC just thought it was too old.

Even so, "Law & Order" had been considered a TV fixture and a good shot for renewal next season. Then it would be poised to surpass "Gunsmoke," a CBS western that ran 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975.

That record-breaking feat has been an enduring dream of the series' creator, Dick Wolf, who not only furnished NBC with this so-called "mother ship" but expanded it into two successful "Law & Order" spinoffs. He also will shepherd the just-announced "LOLA" (short for "Law & Order: Los Angeles") premiering this fall.

http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2010/05/14/13950896.html

[hobolord]

Dam, i liked that show. well, least ncis is still going.

[Halaster]

Now if only the Simpsons would get canned. How long is Bart going to be an obnoxious third grader?

[Cy-Kill]

Well, it turns out L&O is not the only show to get canned, they've just canned Heroes mid-season.

[power_gamer_6]

Now if only the Simpsons would get canned. How long is Bart going to be an obnoxious third grader?

Only one year apparently, considering he's a fourth grader.

[Jaydude]

Well, it turns out L&O is not the only show to get canned, they've just canned Heroes mid-season.

Noooooooooooooooooo! they can't!

[shofuji]

Well, it turns out L&O is not the only show to get canned, they've just canned Heroes mid-season.

Heroes...it just didn't feel right this season...
Anyway, this had better just be some PR stunt by NBC. I mean, I love my **** crimes and seeing the criminal commit the crime, but I need my ounce of realism in my L&O. Especially after the "We're taking on the internet" episode which was nice.

I don't just want to see horrible gruesome sex crimes on minors and centenarians!

[Domokun]

*****es...

[kiore]

yeah i my sister told me this she was upset but i'm like there are 10 other detective shows you can watch including all of the C.I.S's? can you even make that plural?

[Cy-Kill]

including all of the C.I.S's? can you even make that plural?

Yes, you can when you spell the show's name properly: CSI; which becomes: CSIs.

[Halaster]

Yes, you can when you spell the show's name properly: CSI; which becomes: CSIs.

I'm from Miami and I can't stand CSI Miami. It's the camera work, every scene is made to look as if it was twilight just before the sun goes down and the lighting is always orange. Yes, that's a cool thing about Miami and it looks cool when the sun goes down here, but it's not eternally twilight here. Also, Law & Order has that camera work that makes it seem as if it's amateur video being shot of actual events, and the camera man does not use a stabilizer like others do on their cameras in other shows, making it all spastic and look as if the camera man is suffering from Parkinson's and/or is having a seizure. L&O makes me dizzy with the style of camera it uses, finally and thankfully it came to an end.

[Groteske]

Law & Order > Any CSI show.

CSI is so stupid.

Hopefully Law & Order Special Victims Unit stays running.

[Jakuza]

Best Law & Order was SVU. Loved it.

[BadpcGuy]

Well, it turns out L&O is not the only show to get canned, they've just canned Heroes mid-season.

WHAT!
I freaking love Heroes it's my life.
Hayden Hayden Hayden Hayden Hayden Hayden

[Jakuza]

WHAT!
I freaking love Heroes it's my life.
Hayden Hayden Hayden Hayden Hayden Hayden

Heroes started to go down hill after season 3.

[shofuji]

Law & Order > Any CSI show.

CSI is so stupid.

Hopefully Law & Order Special Victims Unit stays running.

SVU is the most popular one. Sex sells.
And CSI..."I'm going to make a GUI interface in visual basic."
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Halaster]

Whoever comes up with the camera style and optical filters these shows are using is on acid.

[BadpcGuy]

Heroes started to go down hill after season 3.

No I don't wanna hear it ignores ignores ignores.
But yeah the whole sylar thing was getting a bit stale I was getting sick of him.

[IronyTaken]

I remember watching this show with my Mother in the early 1990s.

She still watches it and I wonder if she knows it is ending.

There is still SVU though.

[Bryan]

SVU is still around, Jak. The original L&O is being cancelled, that's it.

I'm pissed at Heroes, though... I wanted to see SPOILERwhat the world would be like after Claire revealed Heroes to the world

[Espada1]

I don't know why SVU is so popular.... That show stank of CIS, PIS.

CI was actually good. The big fat dude was an interesting char.

[Eusnon]

I never liked Law & Order >_>

[Fullmetal]

Don't care about Law and Order, don't care about CSI
Is that show Criminal Minds still fine and dandy?

[Oisterman]

I don't think I ever, ever watched this.

Was it some sort of CSI type thing?

[Cy-Kill]

I don't think I ever, ever watched this.

Was it some sort of CSI type thing?

No. Here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_%26_Order