Franchise co-creator Dick Wolf, who will serve as co-showrunner and executive producer alongside
CSI s Carol Mendelsohn, said: This new show is exciting for me personally. We spent the last 30 years on shows that played offense. Now it will be great to play defense, and being able to do it with Carol is an honor and an opportunity for both of us to do television that hasn t been done before. Virginia Sherwood/NBC/NBCU Photo BankGetty Images We can t wait to bring audiences the latest chapter of
Law & Order, which will explore a different angle of the criminal justice system, added Lisa Katz, president of scripted programming at NBC Universal Television and Streaming.
Philadelphia police seeing disturbing increase in violent crime against women
The dramatic surge in violent crimes against women in Philadelphia has police searching for answers.
PHILADELPHIA - Gun violence and homicides are on the rise in Philadelphia and that includes crimes against women.
As investigators searched the streets in West Philadelphia for a suspect in the brutal sexual assault of a woman on South 4th Street, police say this crime is just the latest in a disturbing increase in violent crime against women.
From the West Philly sex assault to the recent firebombing of a home belonging to two women and the murder of a woman in Frankford, the dramatic surge in violent crimes against women has police and women like Victoria Merino searching for answers.
For the Defense, which will go inside the criminal defense system. The NBC series is the latest new installment of the franchise to follow
According to NBC,
Law & Order: For the Defense “will take an unbiased look inside a criminal defense firm. The series will put the lawyers under the microscope, along with the criminal justice system with every week delivering the promise of a contemporary morality tale.”
While Carol Mendelsohn (
CSI) will serve as showrunner and executive producer, along with Wolf, Arthur Forney, Julie Weitz and Peter Jankowski, no casting news has been announced.
“This new show is exciting for me personally,” Wolf said in a statement. “We spent the last 30 years on shows that played offense. Now it will be great to play defense, and being able to do it with Carol is an honor and an opportunity for both of us to do television that hasn’t been done before.”
Bethesda interview: Manu Raju
CNN chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju on being inside the Capitol as insurgents stormed the halls, and what it’s like to cover the Hill during a pandemic By Amy Halpern |
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Manu Raju at home in Chevy Chase, D.C., with his wife, Archana Mehta, and their 5-year-old twins. Photo by Michael Ventura
Just after 4 p.m. on Jan. 6, Manu Raju, CNN’s chief congressional correspondent, was in his recording booth in the Senate press gallery when he heard a pounding on the door. The U.S. Capitol Police had come to evacuate Raju, his two producers, and the 18 or so other media people in the room and escort them to a more secure location in the building. A few hours earlier, Raju and the others had been ordered to stay in the gallery for their protection as insurgents stormed the halls of Congress. Raju couldn’t see the rioters from his windowless booth. Instead, he was going on the air every few minutes with reports that he was receivin
New series will “take an unbiased look inside a criminal defense firm”
Reid Nakamura | May 3, 2021 @ 11:16 AM
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NBC has picked up another “Law & Order” spinoff, this time going inside a criminal defense firm.
Titled “Law & Order: For the Defense,” the new series will “take an unbiased look inside a criminal defense firm,” according to NBC. “The series will put the lawyers under the microscope, along with the criminal justice system with every week delivering the promise of a contemporary morality tale.”
Carol Mendelsohn (“CSI”) will serve as showrunner and executive producer alongside franchise boss Dick Wolf.
“For the Defense” joins “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” which has been renewed through Season 24, and the most recent addition to the franchise, “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” which marked longtime “SVU” star Christopher Meloni’s return after 10 years away from the show.