{"id":589393,"date":"2026-04-17T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589393\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:13:08","slug":"christopher-meloni-on-law-order-organized-crime-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589393\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Meloni on &#8216;Law &#038; Order: Organized Crime&#8217; Cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/christopher-meloni\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christopher-meloni\" data-tag=\"christopher-meloni\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Meloni<\/a> is saying something of a farewell to Elliot Stabler, the \u201cLaw &amp; Order\u201d detective he\u2019s been playing on and off since 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOn Thursday, news broke that <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/law-and-order-organized-crime-canceled-nbc-1236723780\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLaw &amp; Order: Organized Crime\u201d has been canceled<\/a> after five seasons. Though Meloni occasionally pops into \u201cLaw &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit\u201d for guest appearances, the cancellation means he will no longer play Stabler full-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI just saw that they announced \u2018Organized Crime\u2019 won\u2019t be coming back. I wanted to take this moment to say thank you to the fans who not only helped give the character of Elliot Stabler life and longevity, but for sticking with him and welcoming him back. It was a good ride,\u201d Meloni <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXOEGzeiGpp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said in an Instagram video<\/a> on Thursday night. \u201cI had a great time playing him. It was a great ride. Thank you. You helped give me a career that I never dreamed of, nearly 17 odd years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMeloni led \u201cSpecial Victims Unit\u201d opposite Mariska Hargitay, who plays Olivia Benson, from the series premiere in 1999 through its 12th season in 2011. In 2021, he returned to the franchise as a guest star in \u201cSVU\u201d while launching the \u201cOrganized Crime\u201d spinoff as the lead. \u201cOrganized Crime\u201d aired on NBC for its first four seasons before moving to Peacock for Season 5, which streamed in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMeloni has also appeared in the flagship \u201cLaw &amp; Order\u201d as a guest star in three episodes over the years; the flagship series has yet to be renewed. \u201cSVU\u201d will return for Season 28 in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christopher Meloni is saying something of a farewell to Elliot Stabler, the \u201cLaw &amp; Order\u201d detective he\u2019s been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[27326,88,35185,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-589393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-christopher-meloni","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-law-order-organized-crime","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589393","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=589393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}