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"Law & Order" may be going bicoastal in the fall.NBC has reportedly picked up 13 episodes of a West Coast version of the show to air next season. Deadline.com says the network picked up 13 episodes of "Law & Order: Los Angeles" for the fall, where it will join "Law & Order: SVU" and very possibly the "L&O" mothership, which the site says is looking "pretty good" to return for a 21st season.
NBC isn't commenting on the report.
Blake Masters, who created the Showtime series "Brotherhood," is on board as a writer for "Lola," as "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf has been calling the new show. There's no word on a cast yet.
NBC Entertainment president Angela Bromstad said in January that she had talked with Wolf about developing an L.A.-based extension of the brand. Since then, though, there's been little public chatter about the new version, even through the frenzy of pilot casting season.
NBC will announce its 2010-11 lineup on May 17.
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Cool!!!!! I'll watch!
It's a time-tested formula for success, but doesn't this smack a little of desperation? This will be, what, the seventh incarnation of L&O?
As long as it differentiates itself sufficiently from the other versions, I suppose it could work. But wouldn't we all rather see NBC try to create more shows like CHUCK or HEROES?
Chuck, yes. Heroes, no. It smacks a little of desperation since NCIS just did an L.A.-based extension of their brand. What's next -- CSI: L.A.?
Chuck, yes. Heroes, no. It smacks a little of desperation since NCIS just did an L.A.-based extension of their brand. What's next -- CSI: L.A.?
Chuck, yes. Heroes, no. It smacks a little of desperation since NCIS just did an L.A.-based extension of their brand. What's next -- CSI: L.A.?
Earlier this season Benjamin Bratt (who longtime fans will know as Rey Curtis) came back for a visit and basically told Van Buren he was living in California, I would assume that he would be one of the stars of the show.Not Logan, but I'd watch it anyway.
Did they try this a few years ago as the second season of the Wolf version of Dragnet?
That would be great if Benjamin Bratt was in the cast.
I assume they will film on location in Los Angeles. Will this be the first Law & Order show, and Law & Order-related show (Conviction) to be filmed outside New York?
I would love it if they did a two part crossover story with SVU, with Benson and Stabler travelling over to Los Angeles. Or maybe a three part crossover with SVU and the original Law & Order.
I'm excited about this new spin-off. I wasn't spoiled by that bit of info above from the Law & Order episode "Fed", but if Benjamin Bratt was going to be cast in the Los Angeles-set spin-off it would be an interesting link to the old series.
Kevin, you may have just tapped into an inside joke for the spin-off with Curtis mentioning to Van Buren about L.A. nice catch!
John they sure did and it flopped for ABC but you know L&O is nothing but a more expensive modern-day version of the old 50's Dragnet anyway so maybe with the L&O tag it may fly.