Law and Order News

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.

'Law & Order' will welcome an old friend back into the 27th Precinct. Benjamin Bratt , who played Detective Rey Curtis on the NBC series from 1995 to 1999 , will reprise his role in an episode this season, NBC says.

Benjamin Bratt to Return to 'Law & Order' EW.com Former series star Benjamin Bratt will be back as NYPD Det.

Elisabeth Rohm and Bill Bellamy have inked with APA. Rohm's past credits include "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous" and "Ghost Image" while Bellamy is currently hosting the TV One comedy competition "Who's Got Jokes." Rohm continues to be managed by Luber Roklin Entertainment while Evolution Entertainment continues to manage Bellamy.

Instead of being crowded into obscurity by an overabundance of television crime shows, "Law & Order" has entered its 20th season like gangbusters, with some of its strongest episodes in years.

Angie Harmon , who you can often see on TNT during the day in "Law & Order" reruns, is angling to crack the cable channel's original-series roster as well.

This should boost those sagging Friday ratings. Benjamin Bratt has signed on to reprise his role as Det.

It's been revealed exclusively to EW's Michael Ausiello that Benjamin Bratt is returning to his role as Detective Rey Curtis on Law & Order next month.