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Law & Order<\/em> may be getting a new lease on life — on TNT, Variety<\/a><\/em> reports.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The police procedural — featuring Sam Waterson and S. Epatha Merkerson — ran for 20 seasons and spawned several spinoffs (Special Victims Unit, Criminal Intent, Trial By Jury<\/em>) before the network axed the show last week. It is currently tied with Gunsmoke as television’s longest-running drama.<\/p>\n NBC Universal is in talks with TNT about working out a licensing deal that would open the door for new episodes of the long-running crime drama to run on the cable network — which is already home to reruns of Law & Order<\/em>.<\/p>\n Last year, the networks reached a similar deal that paved the way for NBC’s gritty cult hit Southland<\/em> to make the move to TNT after being booted from The Peacock.<\/p>\n “The patient is not dead,” L&O<\/em> creator Wolf said Tuesday. “It is in a medically induced coma, and we are hoping for a cure.”<\/em><\/p>\n Wolf tells The New York Times<\/em> that he is courting offers for the show from other networks, and there might even be a two-hour Law & Order<\/em> TV movie in the works.<\/p>\n A nationwide appeal to save the show has drawn more than 17,000 people to the Facebook group<\/a> “Save Law & Order!”<\/p>\n The New York City government is among the fans disappointed to see the series go: the show generates $79 million in business for the Big Apple each season.<\/p>\n Law & Order may be getting a new lease on life — on TNT, Variety reports. The police procedural — featuring Sam Waterson and S. Epatha Merkerson — ran for 20 seasons and spawned several spinoffs (Special Victims Unit, Criminal Intent, Trial By Jury) before the network axed the show last week. It is currently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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