{"id":655460,"date":"2026-05-08T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655460\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:58:09","slug":"law-order-getting-renewed-for-season-26-by-nbc-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655460\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Law & Order’ Getting Renewed For Season 26 By NBC (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: It came too close to the wire for comfort, but Law & Order will live on, finalizing a Season 26 renewal for 2026-27, Deadline has learned. An official pickup is expected as soon as tomorrow, Friday, three days before NBC<\/a> is slated to unveil its fall lineup to advertisers Monday at its upfront presentation.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 26 will not be designated as final, sources said. It is unclear what cuts the show may be undergoing, I hear details are still being worked out. Budget trims have become customary for long-running broadcast series with big-name casts, including the Dick Wolf<\/a> dramas on NBC.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe mothership Law & Order has a star-heavy cast but has kept its size relatively small, with six series regulars this season, Tony Goldwyn, Hugh Dancy, Maura Tierney, Reid Scott, Odelya Halevi and David Ajala.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter scoring a renewal alongside spinoff Law & Order: SVU last year, the mothership series unexpectedly found itself on the bubble this season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat was somewhat surprising became the revival seemed to have hit its stride creatively, especially in its current season, after a somewhat bumpy reentry following a 12-year break. Still, performance-wise, Law & Order lags behind One Chicago and SVU, though its linear viewership is on par with the latter.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith a strong crop of five drama pilots, NBC decided to keep its options open by keeping Law & Order on the bubble alongside sophomores Brilliant Minds and The Hunting Party. <\/p>\n

\n\tLaw & Order was always believed to have the best renewal chances among the three. (Brilliant Minds already has been canceled.<\/a> The Hunting Party has been kept in contention in part of the halo effect its Netflix run has had on its streaming viewership on Peacock.)<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, it is hard to imagine NBC canceling an iconic series like Law & Order twice with no advance notice or a proper sendoff following the shock May 2010 axing. <\/p>\n

\n\tLaw & Order is executive produced by Wolf, Rick Eid, Alex Hall, Anastasia Puglisi and Peter Jankowski. It is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Wolf Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: It came too close to the wire for comfort, but Law & Order will live on, finalizing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,174487,75,12688,7817,16576,348],"class_list":["post-655460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dick-wolf","tag-entertainment","tag-law-order","tag-nbc","tag-renewals","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}