EXCLUSIVE: Law & Order: Organized Crime, starring Christopher Meloni, won’t be returning for a sixth season on Peacock — or NBC.
The decision doesn’t come as a huge surprise; the Law & Order spinoff’s most recent fifth season launched on Peacock exactly a year ago. It subsequently got a second-window run on NBC, the series’ home for its first four seasons, last fall.
Still, as Deadline reported in February, while dormant, Organized Crime was not completely dead and there had been a soft outreach for a new showrunner. I hear that never materialized and, with NBC bullish on its five drama pilots that have started to come in, Organized Crime‘s fate has been sealed. (If there are more strong pilot contenders than slots on the NBC schedule, a move to Peacock is a possibility.)
Meloni has another series; he is the lead of Dan Fogelman’s upcoming
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