NBC and executive producer Dick Wolf have three successful TV dramas based in the windy city (Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, and Chicago Med) but they haven’t forgotten about Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The venerable crime drama has been renewed for an 18th season for the 2016-17 season.
Law & Order: SVU follows an elite squad of detectives who investigate sexually based crimes in New York City. This season, the cast includes Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Kelli Giddish, Peter Scanavino, and Raul Esparza.
Despite being in its 17th season, SVU remains one of NBC’s highest-rated scripted series. It’s currently the network’s fourth-highest rated scripted series with an average of a 1.68 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 7.18 million viewers.
Wolf has signed a new deal that will keep him with NBC through 2020. The network also renewed Wolf’s Chicago Med today, for a second season.
What do you think? Do you like the Law & Order: SVU series? How long would you like to see it continue running?
I love this show and have watched it from the beginning plus thousands of the reruns. I do think you could have another cast member or members. You no Longer have a medical examiner, a therapist or a captain to name few. As good as show is and has continued to be it needs a little something once in awhile. You even showed them in court, not much else. The characters all of you are doing a wonderful job . Keep up the good work.Let’s at least try for twenty seasons. I thought they were having a big celebration tonite… Read more »
Please run this show as long as possible. ..It’s the best I ny book. Keep it coming season after season after season!
Yes it’s the best show I have ever seen it is number one on my showes that I watch besides I tape the repeats on USA channel and ions channel and on demand. I watch the episode more than than once. Now it’s even gets better with the new additions like Raul Esparza. The writing is great as is Mariska Hargitay. Please keep this show as long as it takes and I am a 44 years old house wife so I watch many shows which is second to SVU i watch Ncis then Chicago fire and Chicago pd. My question… Read more »
I would like to see the last episode Elliott was in if you are going to do reruns.
I miss Elliott as much as many do but with his renewal contract he wasn’t as smart as Mariska was he could have not asked for a raise but more time off as Mariska did. Now what is he doing? Not much so why not return him back even as a guest star on certain episodes on cases he worked before and were going to be considered cold cases.
I love svu mariska is amazing ice t her n the others are the show, there is no svu without them, I cannot wait till season 18 I wish they have many seasons to come, the writers are doing a amazing job on keeping the thrill so intense, I hope wolf signs a new deal with NBC that’s surpasses 2020 so it will be a guarantee that we will be watching svu for at least another decade , ….
Ditto you said exactly what I would say.
I love watching Law and Order SVU. I set my dvr to record it whenever it is on. I love Olivia Benson and her the people she works with. I am not crazy about Barba I prefer Alex Cabot back. I am also am loving that Olivia is now a mom and she is in a relationship. Olivia and Tucker are great together, I hope they end up married.
Never miss an episode brilliant tv .
Please don’t ever ever ever cancel this show ! Omg it’s the best series I have ever watched ! I am addicted to it quite bad actually …my husband and kids think I am weird as I just can’t get enough of it . Please continue as long as you can !!!
Exactly my feelings for SVU. Except I love Barbara.
I would love to see a million other seasons, I think they are doing an amazing job keeping the show fresh and cool. But once Mariska, Kelli, and Ice leave I think i would be done because they are my top 3 and I love them more than words can describe. Looking forward to season 18!!
I love this show! Mariska is incredibly talented and I look up to her. I have watched this show since I was a kid and I still watch the re-runs. I hope this show continues for at least more than 18 seasons.
Love this show, Mariska is an incredibly talented actress! Ice T & Kelli Giddish are great too. Wish Danny Pino whould return. Hope this show continues forever because my teenagers are watching it now. I’ve been watching L & O for 17 years!
I hope Danny comes back!!! After stabbler I wasn’t to sure.. he was the muscle yu know he didn’t take no ****!!! Then you gave me Nick my cute digging detective!! Now I have Benson the strongest character on the show fin and amanda ! I love the show I have been watching for as long as I can remember but you guys trying to kill the cast I loved not to mention y’all took out the captain and my main man munch! That was enough but if you kill Benson or fin idk I think I’m done!
I absolutely love the show. I thought after Eliot left I would stop watching but I continue to watch it. It’s better then ever and I hope it continues for many more seasons.
Meloni blew it leaving the show, as he hasn’t done jack since and is missing out on a butt load of residuals!
For me is like a tradition by now, its been 17 years!!!
i dont care if the show gets boring from now on but i would still watching although i´ve heard that the executive producer has left the show and this is the preducer that made svu cool again, you can see that after meloni left, the show took another turn when season 13 started, so let’s see what comes for season 18
I think i would cry and mourn for about 3 months if it ever ended.. I hope Mariska stays on the show as long as she can because without her the show definitely won’t be as good.