Deadline reports that NBC and Peacock will stop reprise Law & Order: Organized Crime for another season. It has been a year since there has been any word on the status of the show, since last fall.
According to Deadline, the show may have not had news but it was not gone, it was making room for other shows to test out. There were much stronger contenders for the spotlight. Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Stabler) stars in another show which is called, The Land.
Deadline writes that Law & Order: Organized Crime is written by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television. It is also following the story of Elliot Stabler (Meloni) from Law & Order: SVU, whose story goes that he is to return to the NYPD and solve more crimes. The story was much more straight forward, which is an outlier, from Dick Wolfe’s (Chicago Fire, Law & Order) make your own conclusion stories. Wolfe’s other works on Peacock and NBC will be going onto season four. Law & Order: Organized Crime had a hard time finding footing because it was losing its identity going into its fifth season.
According to Deadline, the fifth season lost its edge which allowed a 10 pm EST air time, and its sister show to take the Thursday line up. Another reason that it had been cancelled is that the view count wasn’t as high as the other shows. The creative time had a hard time coming up with ideas and keeping up with the five different leads, and the sixth season would of made a sixth lead which would of made new problems.
Organized Crime‘s Season five cast included Danielle Moné Truitt (Rebel, Deputy), Ainsley Seiger (American Waste, Party USA), Rick Gonzalez (Old School, Roll Bounce) and Dean Norris (Better Call Saul, Under the Dome). Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, produced in association with Wolf Entertainment.