Last November, NBC-Universal announced that Law & Order: Criminal Intent wasn’t cancelled but would be returning for just an eight episode final season. While the news that the show was coming to an end was disappointing, many were very happy to hear that beloved characters Detectives Robert Goren (Vincent D’Onofrio) and Alex Eames (Kathryn Erbe) were returning.
Season 10 of Law & Order: Criminal Intent debuted this week and the ratings were very positive. The premiere registered the show’s second-largest total audience (5.1 million) since the series moved to USA. It was also up by 21-35% in the demos and up 43% in total viewers when compared to the season nine premiere.
With such positive numbers, could there be an 11th season after all? In a recent conference call, executive producer Dick Wolf told reporters that he hoped, “enough fans will come out so the powers that be reconsider their decision.”
In an interview with the Futon Critic’s Jim Halterman, executive producer Chris Brancato noted that, “I think we all probably know that Dick Wolf never says never… He cares so deeply and he is engaged in the show in a way that you might not expect somebody who is so successful and been doing it for so long. He loves it! This is his baby, of sorts. Yeah, I think if viewers are enthused about Vincent and Katie coming back I don’t see why it has to be the final season.”
What do you think? Would you like to see the TV series continue for an eleventh season? Would it have to include D’Onofrio and Erbe?
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Goren and Eames are CI! They can’t be replaced. Did they not learn their lesson when it was tried earlier? Just once could “the powers that be” listen to the people who watch the shows and grow to love the characters. We need more seasons of CI with only Goren and Eames.
Please, Please don’t cancel this show. This is the best of the Law & Order series….I’m just sayin’.
Yes!! I’d love to see more! I mostly stopped watching during season nine but I’ve watched loyally since season ten with Goren and Eames back! I really want more~!
PLEASE KEEP MAKING EPISODES WITH GOREN AND EAMES!!!!!!!
D’Onofrio and Erbe set the standard for Criminal Intent. We must have more seasons. Get a new captain!
Yes please keep criminal intent coming with nobody but Goren and Eames. They are the very, very best.Will be looking forward to season Eleven.Do not disappoint your loyal fans.
Yes, Give 10 more seasons of D’Onofrio and Erbe!!!!
Truly the best of the Law and order stable. Edgy without pandering to on screen violence. D’Nofrio has created one of TV’s great characters. More please! 11 Seasons and beyond!
I hated losing the orginial Law and Order. Law and Order CI is such a brain teaser it never ends the way it looks in the begin. Please don’t take it away…. I am sure the next to SVU it is the most popular of the shows.
SEASON 11, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE. With Gorem and Eames (D’Onofrio & Erbe).
This is one of the best of the Law and Order family. Love the Characters. Edgier than most.
I can’t believe someone wants to cancel this show. Say it ain’t so!
Want more of this show…
Please keep this show on with the Goren and his partner love the two i will keep watching
I love this show ……….PLEASE KEEP IT ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really liked Criminal Intent better than the other Law and Order series, but I didn’t like the way Goren’s character deteriorated. I enjoyed seeing him as the super smart detective he had always been. It’s unpleasant to see him disintegrating in the newer version and I haven’t watched it much for that reason.
I doubt I’d watch it with a different cast.
This is absolutely the best of the 3 Law and Order. I was so disapointe about the cancellation of the original. Please, please, please keep Criminal Intent coming.