So, they're canceling "Law and Order"

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It was a good run.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100514/...tv_law___order

[d2king10]

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Thank god.

[Hrafn]

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Since they're adding one, it's just a push. Still three of them floating around out there, allowing every comedic actor in Hollywood a chance to play a creep for one episode before either getting pinched or killed.

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Wait, they added another one besides this one, SVU, and CI?

[Hrafn]

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Yup. Law and Order: Los Angeles. Guess the success NCIS had with that area lured them in.

[Riotsword]

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The appeal of L&O, at least to me, was the gritty setting of New York and the cynical and hardened types who dwell within (Jerry Orbach's death pretty much numbered the days remaining for the original series). L.A. doesn't even compare. The first time I see the detectives questioning the murder victim's personal trainer, my interest will go flying out the window.

[Hrafn]

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I guess they were limited as to just how much more they could do with NYC. You have the original L&O, the two spinoffs currently going (CI and SVU), that Trial By Jury that flared out quick....unless they were going into Law and Order: Meter Maids, the Big Apple was more or less tapped.

Of course, you could ask why they're feeling the need to do another one at all, but don't ask that. it's a silly question.

[Perversion]

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Law and Order is being cancelled...oh, darn~

[Goufunaki]

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I liked the original, and the earlier SVU episodes.

But most of all, i like Diane Neal.

[Zeroth]

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As long as they still got SVU I'm okay. It's just about the only thing I really remind myself to watch.

[Hrafn]

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I don't think it'll go anywhere. I know an article about the TV ratings a couple years ago said that while the original and CI were shedding viewers, SVU was gaining. No idea if it's still true, but I wouldn't doubt it. I think everyone just enjoys the massive irony of Ice T (Ice T! "Cop Killer' Ice-T!) playing a cop. I know I do.

[American Hero]

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I've always hated this show. My mother used to watch it so much it drove me crazy, the opening narration is forever burned in my mind.

[Cutter De Blanc]

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Aren't there like ten spin-offs?

I've watched that show a few times.

It was okay.

The one with Vincent D'onofrio sucked though, cuz they always showed who did it in the middle, so there's no mystery anymore on the viewer's part.

[Riotsword]

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I think what I'm going to miss the most is the original's theme music. Pretty good stuff, and makes the other themes feel unnecessarily overblown.

[DarkwingChuck]

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I'm a big fan of SVU and also enjoy the original. Never got into CI. The many shifting main characters of classic L&O has made it hard to keep involved. The one great actor that stuck around was... the black lady who had cancer. And I read not long ago she didn't want to do another season so I'm find with the show ending now.