{"id":20441,"date":"2025-07-19T02:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20441\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T02:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:31:15","slug":"mehcad-brooks-leaving-law-order-as-jalen-shaw-after-3-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20441\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehcad Brooks Leaving &#8216;Law &#038; Order&#8217; As Jalen Shaw After 3 Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mehcad-brooks\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mehcad-brooks\" data-tag=\"mehcad-brooks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mehcad Brooks<\/a> is departing NBC\u2019s Law &amp; Order after three seasons as Detective Jalen Shaw ahead of the venerable crime drama\u2019s upcoming 25th season, Deadline has learned. According to sources, the parting of the ways was mutual, with Brooks already exploring other opportunities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe rest of the Law &amp; Order main cast, including Tony Goldwyn and Reid Scott, whose contracts were up at the end of last season, Hugh Dancy, Odelya Halevi and Maura Tierney, are set to come back, sources said. As Deadline <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/law-amp-order-svu-law-amp-order-renewed-nbc-2025-26-season-1236390251\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported in May<\/a>, most actors on NBC\u2019s Law &amp; Order and Chicago franchises will be in fewer episodes next season as part of a cost-savings measure.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/nbc-fall-2025-schedule-nba-the-voice-svu-one-chicago-1236392061\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NBCnew.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/law-amp-order-svu-law-amp-order-renewed-nbc-2025-26-season-1236390251\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Law-and-order.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cLaw &amp; Order\u201d and \u201cLaw &amp; Order\u201d SVU\u201d\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBrooks stepped in as a detective on Law &amp; Order in 2022, filling the void left by the departure of Anthony Anderson. Casting of a new detective has just gotten underway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLaw &amp; Order is executive produced by Dick Wolf, Rick Eid, Alex Hall and Peter Jankowski. The series, whose 25th season will premiere in the fall, is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Wolf Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBrooks can be seen on Season 3 of HBO Max\u2019s And Just Like That. He next reprises his role as Jax in New Line\u2019s <a data-id=\"1236461212\" data-type=\"pmc-gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/gallery\/mortal-kombat-2-movie-posters-characters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mortal Kombat II<\/a>, based on the hit video game franchise, set for release in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Mehcad Brooks is departing NBC\u2019s Law &amp; Order after three seasons as Detective Jalen Shaw ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,18551,18552,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-20441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-law-order","12":"tag-mehcad-brooks","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}