# Law & Order Cancelled **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441 "2010-05-14T15:58:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/1 "2010-05-14T15:58:09Z")
[http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2010/05/law-order-out-conan-obrien-in-weird-doings-at-nbc.html](http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2010/05/law-order-out-conan-obrien-in-weird-doings-at-nbc.html) Why NBC why? Especially when it’s on the cusp of setting a record for longest-running drama. And doubly especially when they’re going to renew the more-or-less crap that is SVU _ **and** _ they plan to start a new version set in LA. ---
**Author:** ![Zannen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b5a626/32.png) [@Zannen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zannen)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/2 "2010-05-14T16:00:12Z")
NOOOOOOOO. It can’t be cancelled. I grew up with this show! Plus, it’s the only thing to watch when nothing else is on! It’s amazing! This is aweful news. ---
**Author:** ![cgg419](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cgg419/32/2847_2.png) [@cgg419](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cgg419)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/3 "2010-05-14T17:49:28Z")
Looks like it’s the truth [NBC confirms Law & Order has been cancelled](http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/809472--has-law-order-been-cancelled-nbc-won-t-say) ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/4 "2010-05-14T17:57:06Z")
Don’t worry - Jack McCoy’s eyebrows will save them! They’ll fly the whole show over to TNT. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/5 "2010-05-14T18:01:49Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > Don’t worry - Jack McCoy’s eyebrows will save them! They’ll fly the whole show over to TNT. I heard TNT is why they’re cancelling it, Turner won’t renew the syndication contract. One of my favorites, ever. It shaped my Wednesday nights. When they moved it to Friday’s and then back I couldn’t ever remember when to look for it. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/6 "2010-05-14T18:03:41Z")
I may never watch another repeat if they kill Lt Anita Van Buren. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/7 "2010-05-14T18:16:23Z")
Why do the good ones always die so young? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/8 "2010-05-14T18:31:48Z")
I guess this doesn’t matter much to me because I only watch the reruns for the Lennie Briscoe quips, but this still kind of sucks. Law & Order is a New York institution (and so is having ‘no parking here because of L&O taping’ stickers on your street). I thought it was written into the city bylaws somewhere that the show couldn’t be canceled until everyone in New York had appeared on the show. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/9 "2010-05-14T18:55:52Z")
Man, I was just thinking yesterday how _L&O_ is the one cop show that I watch (and I watch a lot of them!) that never gets old, and I look forward to every week. And how great it was that they do a lot of “ripped from the headlines” plots so they won’t ever run out of material. Dammit ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/10 "2010-05-14T19:40:22Z")
A travesty. ☹ I’ve been watching this show for it’s entire 20 year run. I don’t even know what to say… ---
**Author:** ![mbetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@mbetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbetter)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/11 "2010-05-14T19:49:40Z")
This is a travesty, it was actually getting pretty good again. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/12 "2010-05-14T19:56:40Z")
Since this is now confirmed, I’m taking the word “possibly” out of the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/13 "2010-05-14T20:08:21Z")
Re: Ripped from the Headlines I am surprised that didn’t do something with the Tiger Woods saga. Maybe that is SVU territory. Athletes: Sex/Prescription Drugs addiction (ambien, vicoden). ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/14 "2010-05-14T20:21:02Z")
They need to give one extra show. IN which for the 5000th time in L&O history there is a courthouse shooting. This time it is George Dzundza and he takes otu the entire current cast (except Van Buren who died in the previous episode). ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/15 "2010-05-14T20:22:03Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > I may never watch another repeat if they kill Lt Anita Van Buren. Is that in the works? Did she get shot or something? It would be a real FU if she dies at the end of the series, imho. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/16 "2010-05-14T20:26:22Z")
She had cancer of some sort and was going through chemotherapy. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/17 "2010-05-14T20:26:48Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Is that in the works? Did she get shot or something? It would be a real FU if she dies at the end of the series, imho. She has cancer and her treatment has been a recurring theme during this season. What is \*wrong \*with NBC!? Why must they cancel the one good hour-long drama they have left? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/18 "2010-05-14T20:51:14Z")
As much as I’ve adored the show over the years, I have to admit that I’m more disappointed that it won’t have the chance to break the _Gunsmoke_ record than I am about it not being on the schedule anymore. From what I’ve read, Dick Wolf could have broken the record if he had agreed to a curtailed season – six to 10 episodes – but that seems like a pitiful way for this juggernaut to end. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/19 "2010-05-14T20:53:05Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > What is \*wrong \*with NBC!? Why must they cancel the one good hour-long drama they have left? Might as well go the whole hog. Too bad about the show. I go through phases where I watch it constantly then don’t watch any of them at all. I kind of like it that way because the unseen episodes pile up. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441/20 "2010-05-14T21:45:36Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > [http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2010/05/law-order-out-conan-obrien-in-weird-doings-at-nbc.html](http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2010/05/law-order-out-conan-obrien-in-weird-doings-at-nbc.html) > > Why NBC why? Especially when it’s on the cusp of setting a record for longest-running drama. And doubly especially when they’re going to renew the more-or-less crap that is SVU _ **and** _ they plan to start a new version set in LA. Your OP is full of lies! SVU is not “more or less” crap. It’s simply crap. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-cancelled/539441.md?page=2)