Now that the cancellation of Law & Order has been announced, I can say what I’ve been wanting to write for the past 24 hours: Read the full post.
May 14
2010
03:50 PM ET
'Law & Order': Why it was important, and why you weren't watching it
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This website sucks, keeps blocking my posts
…and yet you keep posting…**sigh**
Your comment comparing the removal of stars when they ask for more money to the torture and killing of thousands of people is extremely offensive. There is no need to bring the disappearance of people into a tv blog.
The new cops were terrible and I didn’t like McCoy out of the court room!
People have put voices in my head along with the auditory hallucinations I have had since 2004 so I cannot even interview for a job. If I can’t work, I can’t do anything. So, people of the USA, please stop talking in my head. It is cruel and unusual punishment.
Great tribute. I completely agree. I loved the team of Lupo and Bernard and am really sad to see this go.
And, there’s no public trial that has established that I should be punished for anything anyway, so why is the public putting voices in my head 24/7 for two and a half years?
While I appreciate the ability of liberals to shout incessantly and use profanity at every chance they get I don’t understand what Fred Thompson being a Republican has to do with the demise of this show. If anyone should be taking blame it is the same idiotic fans who cried when Conan Obrien got axed by NBC because of low ratings. This write of this article said it best…if you idiots really cared about the show then why didn’t you watch it. Perhaps you guys were too busy to notice what a great show it was. Don’t worry. I have a feeling that CBS will air it this season.
A very nicely written “obit” Ken! I’m in agreement, I’ve always loved the show. My first thought was “What will all struglling actors put on their resume if there’s no L&O?!”
i have seen every single episode of this show and will miss it dearly. the least they could do is let it have a proper goodbye like abc did for nypd blue. it’s been on the air for 20 years and seems a slap in the face to the actors and the viewers to not get a proper series finale. i’m done with nbc at this point.
All of the blithering idiots slinging snot about a “liberal slant” please do the gene pool a favor and just go shoot yourselves now. Not every friggin’ thing needs to be produced according to Republican party guidelines to begin with, but if you saw a “liberal agenda” in L&O, it was all in *your* heads, not the writers’. Either loosen up your aluminum-foil caps or screw’em down a little tighter.
I’ve been a fan since year 1. Couldn’t NBC have given it one more year? It still had a good following.
An overlong series that needed to be put out of its misery.
Thanks for the tribute, Ken. I have been watching L&O forever, and even enjoyed watching re-runs when I was tied to the sofa with a newborn. Linus Roache, Sisto & Anderson have been inspired casting. The writing is consistently intelligent and the partnerships are always well-fleshed out without straying too far into the personal. If I had to save one L&O show, it would be the original. I feel that SVU has suffered from not shaking up its cast over the years.
Clearly the best show on TV from its inception until a few years ago when there became too many spin offs and Mr. Wolf seemed to use the show as a vehicle for his personal views, rather than an objective portrayal of what happens in NYC.
Interesting that no one seems to recall that back in 1963 ABC tried a series called Arrest & Trial which had the same format– except it was 45 minutes for each part. Decent show, but that was back when ABC was in worse shape than NBC is now.