Law and Order News

Many television failures fall under the heading of "just one of those things." After all, most new series don't make it even one season, and with creative reward comes the risk of looking ridiculous.

It's good news for fans of Chuck , as NBC has confirmed that the series will indeed be making an early return with a two-night premiere.

I really wasn't smitten with this show from the premiere the way that some people were.

Through a lifetime of roles such as Julian Marsh in "42nd Street", Sky Masterson in "Guys and Dolls," and, of course, Detective Lennie Briscoe on "Law and Order," Jerry Orbach garnered fame, fortune and the love of an entire city.

JoAnne Klimovich Harrop can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7889. Ways to get us Marianne Skiba studies photos of murder victims.

Will Activist Supreme Court Preserve Absolute Immunity For Prosecutors? Posted by Enrique on 11.11.2009 Strict interpretation... As usual, it's a dark time for the empire.

What are your favorite TV stars doing when they're not making television magic? They're making movie mediocrity! The stars of Heroes , The Mentalist , Law & Order , Parenthood and Weeds are all on DVD this week, in movies of varying degrees of quality.

In the next "ripped from the headlines" episode, "Law & Order" puts David Letterman and "The View" in the crosshairs.

Mountain Stage host Larry Groce didn't know that singer Jill Hennessy was a successful actor until after he listened to her album, Ghost In My Head .

Diane Schuler with her daughter Erin, and son Bryan in an undated photo. Bryan is the sole survivor of the horrific Taconic Parkway crash.

First Jon & Kate , now David Letterman . For its latest ripped-from-the-headlines story line, Law & Order will take a page out of the Late Show host's sex-with-staffers extortion scandal, Entertainment Weekly reports.

" Law & Order " is about to break a record as the longest-running primetime drama in American television history.

Some observers felt Mad Men got off to a bit of a slow start in its third season, but the episodes over the last several weeks have arguably been the best run of excellence in the show's history.

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Television critic Philip Wakefield chooses the best shows on the box this week, for Tuesday, October 27 to Monday, November 2. 1. Mad Men: The New York Times provocatively acclaimed season three as "an artfully imagined historic re-enactment of an era when America was a soaring superpower feeling its first shivers of mortality." Prime, 9.35pm ...

King Schmuck; Everyone's favorite disgruntled office drone Ron Livingston has joined Dinner for Schmucks , the Jay Roach directed comedy that's already got Steve Carell and Paul Rudd on board.

Former Sen. Fred Thompson formally endorsed Kris Kobach for the Kansas Secretary of State office.

Kona told you recently that Benjamin Bratt is coming back to Law & Order for a short time.

YOU KNOW HER FROM Assistant District Attorney Abbie Carmichael on "Law & Order." THE NEWS She'll star in TNT's "Rizzoli," based on Tess Gerritsen 's popular mystery novels, as Boston detective Jane Rizzoli, who works on cases with medical examiner Maura Isles, a role that has not been cast.

I started watching Law & Order during the Briscoe and Green days, so I don't know a whole lot about Detective Rey Curtis, Briscoe's former partner from '94-'99. What I do know is that Benjamin Bratt is pulling a Chris Noth and returning to the show that gave him his big break.