Deadline reports that NBC and Peacock will not reprise Law & Order: Organized Crime for another season. It has been a year since there had been any word on the status of the show, which got an extra run on NBC last fall.
According to Deadline, there may not have been any news, but it wasn’t gone yet, as there was a potential search for a new showrunner. However, it did not come to pass, and NBC has stronger pilot contenders for the spotlight.
Deadline writes that Law & Order: Organized Crime is produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television. It follows the story of Elliot Stabler ( Christoper Meloni, Happy, Pose) from Law & Order: SVU, who returns to NYPD to tackle cases under its organized crime division. The story was much more straight forward, which is an outlier from Dick Wolf’s (Chicago Fire, Law & Order) procedural format. Wolf’s other works outperformed the series, which prompted its move to Peacock in the fourth season. Law & Order: Organized Crime had a hard time finding footing, losing its identity going into its fifth season.
According to Deadline, the fifth season lost its edge, which allowed a 10 p.m. EST air time back in NBC’s Thursday lineup. Despite modest ratings for broadcast, they did not match that of the other series. And they struggled to keep a consistent creative team, which saw five showrunners through its tenure. The sixth season would of meant a sixth showrunner, and new problems
In addition to Meloni, whose next role is in Hulu’s NFL drama The Land, 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.