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EXCLUSIVE: It came excessively adjacent to nan ligament for comfort, but Law & Order will unrecorded on, finalizing a Season 26 renewal for 2026-27, Deadline has learned. An charismatic pickup is expected arsenic soon arsenic tomorrow, Friday, 3 days earlier NBC is slated to unveil its autumn lineup to advertisers Monday astatine its upfront presentation.
Season 26 will not been designated arsenic final, sources said. It is unclear what cuts nan show whitethorn beryllium undergoing, I perceive specifications are still being worked out. Budget trims person go customary for long-running broadcast bid pinch big-name casts, including nan Dick Wolf dramas connected NBC.
The mothership Law & Order has an all-star formed but has kept its size comparatively small, pinch 5 bid regulars this season, Tony Goldwyn, Hugh Dancy, Maura Tierney, Reid Scott and Odelya Halevi.
After scoring a renewal alongside spinoff Law & Order: SVU past year, nan mothership bid unexpectedly found itself connected nan bubble this season.
That was somewhat astonishing became nan revival seemed to person deed its stride creatively, particularly successful its existent season, aft a somewhat bumpy reentry pursuing a 12-year break. Still, performance-wise, Law & Order lags down One Chicago and SVU, though its linear viewership is connected par pinch nan latter.
With a beardown harvest of 5 play pilots, NBC decided to support its options unfastened by keeping Law & Order connected nan bubble alongside sophomores Brilliant Minds and The Hunting Party.
Law & Order was ever believed to person nan champion renewal chances among nan three. (Brilliant Minds already has been canceled. The Hunting Party has been kept successful contention successful portion of nan halo effect its Netflix tally has had connected its streaming viewership connected Peacock.)
Additionally, it is difficult to ideate NBC canceling an iconic bid for illustration Law & Order doubly pinch nary beforehand announcement aliases a due sendoff pursuing nan daze May 2010 axing.
Law & Order is executive produced by Wolf, Rick Eid, Pamela Wechsler, Alex Hall and Peter Jankowski. It is produced by Universal Television, a section of Universal Studio Group, successful relation pinch Wolf Entertainment.
