Law & Order: SVU survived the reaper’s blade for a Season 18 renewal this week, but showrunner Warren Leight admits he and the writers made series finale plans in case the show was cancelled, per THR:
“If we weren’t coming back, there were a couple things I was absolutely going to do,” he says of bringing back former series regulars like Richard Belzer (Munch), Danny Pino (Amaro) and, most notably, Christopher Meloni (Stabler). “We had been talking [about], had this been the last episode, we would have tried him to bring him back.”
With that in mind, it’s possible those aborted series finale plans may be resurrected this time next year if a Season 19 renewal isn’t forthcoming.
However, Leight, who departs the long-running procedural at the end of Season 17, is bullish when asked whether SVU can survive 21 seasons and become the longest-running primetime series in history:
“I think if anyone deserves it, it’s Mariska. But if she were to decide 18 is enough, she deserves that too. Her character has been through a lot.”
Stay tuned as we monitor the status of Law & Order Season 19…
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