Law & Order (the original) making a come back for 21st season

[dragonflies]

 

[Wendy]

While I don't think this should have been canceled when it was, bringing it back so many years later...I don't know how I feel.

[DaytimeFan]

S. Epatha Merkerson must be in this. I need to see Van Buren in this…

[amybrickwallace]

After all this time, I don't think it's a good idea. I hope I'm wrong.

[slick jones]

Thinking about how to cast using former daytime actors from the NY Area.    My random thoughts for a reboot...

POLICE DEPARTMENT
Captain     Timothy Stickney

2 Detective Teams that could rotate:

Michael Park and Cassandra Creech

Sean Ringgold  and Paul Anthony Stewart

Uniform Cops

    Eddie Alderson

    Kelley Missal 

 

DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE

District Attorney of NYC          Larry Bryggman

2 Sets of Prosecutors that could rotate:

Eric Steinberg  and Melanie Smith

Lea Salonga and Jason Shane Scott

 

 

Coroner           Stephen Schnetzer

Profiler            Hillary B. Smith

Rotating Judges: Julia Barr

Peter Francis James

Marie Masters

Robert Newman

Petronia Paley

Socorro Santiago

Erika Slezak

Anna Stuart

Jerry Ver Dorn

Tom Wiggin

Walt Willey

David Wolos-Fonteno

Robert S. Woods

Colleen Zenk

 

Defense Attorneys Nicola Correia-Damude

                              Kristen   Kreuk

                            

 

Came up with the list over dinner with some friends.   Anyone else have any thoughts?

Realizing that some are retired/ out of the business. Just a little fun speculation.

 

Edited October 20, 2021 by slick jones

[Soaplovers]

Yawn..another procedural 

[Chris B]

I never understood getting rid of this in the first place. Considering how long this show lasted and how much the cast changed, I'm very curious what type of cast they will go with. Of course we will have new characters, but I'm curious of the mish mash of old characters that join them. 

[Wendy]

Some of this news is older, but doing a cast dump here:

And Bernard's new partner will be played by...Jeffrey Donovan, of Burn Notice fame:

https://deadline.com/2021/11/jeffrey-donovan-star-law-order-revival-nbc-1234865979/

 

And a new Lieutenant will oversee Bernard and Donovan's character:

 

[Planet Soap]

Same, but I love her on Chicago Med! 

[Wendy]

If I recall, had the show been renewed back in 2010, S. Epatha Merkerson was going to leave, anyway, as she had been on a long time. And I know there has been a decade-plus break, but it appears Wolf is leaving  Merkerson in the Chicago franchise (hence the Camryn Manheim casting news) and Jeremy Sisto in the FBI franchise, hence Jeffrey Donovan's character being Anthony Anderson's/Bernard's new partner.

[DaytimeFan]

That’s fair. Merkerson is a wonderful actress and I’m glad she’s with the Chicago franchise and enjoying herself. 
 

The Mannheim casting is excellent. She will be wonderful in that role. 

[Chris B]

For a show that ran so long, not to mention all the spin-off's, I'm surprised they didn't pull more from the overall Law and Order universe. Still, it looks like the cast is shaping up nicely, that just surprised me. 

[Wendy]

An old L&O tie in with new cast member Hugh Dancy (I believe he will be an ADA/EADA?): His now-wife Claire Daines starred in an episode of the show all the way back in 1992 (pre-My So-Called Life and pre-Lennie Briscoe) as a teenage girl infatuated modeling and with a photographer that she ended up killing called "Skin Deep". (A Logan/Ceretta [Paul Sorvino] episode from Season 2.)

[Liberty City]

Well, Sam Waterston is in-talks to reprise his role, so that could prove promising. As for Camryn Manheim, I think it's brilliant casting as a follow up to S. Epatha Merkerson.

[Wendy]

Another ADA is cast: