It looks like the Law & Order franchise is staying alive — for at least one more year. NBC has renewed Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for a 17th season on the network.
Debuting in 1999, Law & Order: SVU follows an elite squad of detectives who investigate sexually based crimes in New York City. In the current 16th season, the cast includes Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Kelli Giddish, Danny Pino, and Raul Esparza.
While the show is one of the peacock network’s longest-running scripted series, it’s still doing pretty well in the ratings. It’s NBC’s third-highest rated drama in the coveted 18-49 demographic with a 1.7 rating and 7.22 million viewers. Compared to last season, SVU is down by 7% in the demo but is up by 14% in viewers.
As of last night, 356 episodes of SVU have aired on NBC — and there are many more to come.
What do you think? Are you glad that Law & Order: SVU has been renewed? How long should this series run?
This is one of my favorite shows its done so well. I think they should keep it on indefinantly . The story lines r sometimes similar but at the same times different. It makes it always interesting.
i love this show and i would be very upset if it was cancelled. i dont see how they could just stop the show with how season 17 episode 9 ended, it def needs to keep going. there are not very many tv shows that i could watch from beginning to end but this is one of them. please please keep this tv show going!!
I still love the show and don’t want to see it canceled! And I know there are a lot of loyal fans that agree!
Just a note! This is one of the all time best shows ever to be aired and Benson is the best out of the many good ones. I’d like to see this show stay on the air for many more seasons. Noah get a little older, Olivia find a long lasting, possibly permanent love interest and all the previous actors, characters return for cameo appearances on occasion. Including Stabler. Bring back Cragen for a walk down memory lane and see what he’s been doing in retirement. Munch, Brian etc.
Yes! I totally agree! I love this show sooo much! If it gets cancelled I will probably cry
Yes! I totally agree! I love this show sooo much! It is my FAVOURITE show and it would be really nice to see Bensen get a man 🙂
I am so glad it has been renewed. Good shows last a long time. keep it coming!
Yes, I am very glad it has been “spared”. That term even sounds negative. You go NBC. You are truely losers when it come to broadcasting. Think about your viewers. Station with locking people into age brackets. 18-49 Really? Get over it. I am 71 and wouldn’t miss this show ever.
If NBC cancels this show, I will give up TV altogether. The network kills every single airing of this show, Chicago Fire and Chicago PD with enough commercials to make you sick to your stomach. Is it really necessary to destroy every program on TV with the absolutely sickening commercials. Who cares about all this crap.
I absolutely love this show. I never want it to end.
This is my absolute favorite show. I’ve been hooked on it since I was about 12 & it is what has led me to want to work with sex crimes when I get done with college. I watch it every single day; I will be heartbroken when it gets cancelled.
This show sustains me throughout the year. Even in rerun, its better than most. Love the current (more recent episodes) and the humanness of the characters. Sorry that Amarro had to leave the show, but they open ended it so maybe he’ll be back.
SVU has been my favorite TV series for many years. I have every year on DVD and watch them over and over. The cast, the stories, directing, and filming are incredible. Please keep producing, and please don’t let Hargitay, Ice-T or Tunie go – they make the show!
This should should never cancel I would cry
It should never retire. I love the show
It should go on heaps long I love the show and mariska hargitay is the best actress ever
I got hooked on this show when my mom told me about it years ago. She is now gone, but loved this show. Mariska is one of my favorite actress’s and her character, Olivia Benson is awesome. She is so very credible in the character. I was bummed when Chris Malone left the show. But they did a great job replacing the 3 actors who left. I would love to see Olivia Benson get married to the man who ran the precinct a couple of episodes a season or two ago…..not remembering is name. I do believe this should be… Read more »
Why do u think it should stop it is a awesome show and mariska aka Olivia benson is such a badass and she also played justice in badblood and that fits her perfectly
I have enjoyed the show all these years as well, and it would be very difficult to see it cancelled.
I really liked the coupling of the characters played by Mariska Hargitay and Harry Connick, Jr. I would like very much to see that back in the script.
I also liked the character played by Adam Baldwin, but then again I like him as an actor anyway. I wouldn’t mind seeing him again on this show. I do have a great problem with “Munch” and “Cragen” not being on the show. Both left great holes when they left. I’m glad to see B. D. Wong and Tamara Tunie still around ~ at the least in some capacity. I like “D. A. Barba’s” character, but I also like the woman D. A. who has been on the show for many years. “Elliot” left a hole when he left, and… Read more »
Watching the show retire itself while it’s still on top is a nice wish for it, but it’s been this way for a very long time. I too would rather not see it go down the tubes. I would also rather that it just not retire period.