# Law & Order: Los Angeles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949 "2010-01-22T02:23:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949/1 "2010-01-22T02:23:15Z")
Hit on [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_%26_Order#Law_.26_Order:_Los_Angeles) browsing Wiki – first I’ve heard of it: > [@](#): > > On January 10, 2010, NBC programming chief Angela Bromstad announced at the winter TCA Press Tour that the network is in talks with Dick Wolf about introducing Law & Order: Los Angeles to television. NBC producers are currently working on hiring writers for a pilot. This would be the first Law & Order series in the franchise to travel outside New York and this series would be the fifth Law & Order titled series to be created.[67] Whaddaya think? The Next Big Thing, or another _L&O: Trial by Jury?_ ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949/2 "2010-01-22T02:28:43Z")
Um, there’s already a Law & Order series set outside NYC; it’s called **Law & Order: UK** and the episodes I saw weren’t that good. What I’d really like to see is Dick Wolfe’s idea of Law & Order: Cairo come to fruition. Now _that_ would be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949/3 "2010-01-22T03:46:28Z")
Wikipedia lists French and Russian versions ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949/4 "2010-01-22T05:55:37Z")
How about Law & Order: Oklahoma? It would be refreshing for a change to see a television show set in Oklahoma, other than Saving Grace. ---
**Author:** ![Jump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@Jump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jump)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949/5 "2010-01-22T10:34:57Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Um, there’s already a Law & Order series set outside NYC; it’s called **Law & Order: UK** and the episodes I saw weren’t that good. What I’d really like to see is Dick Wolfe’s idea of Law & Order: Cairo come to fruition. Now _that_ would be interesting. I don’t believe that they are in the same universe though, as many L&O:UK episodes are remakes of original L&O episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949/6 "2010-01-22T17:10:22Z")
> [@Jump](#): > > I don’t believe that they are in the same universe though, as many L&O:UK episodes are remakes of original L&O episodes. The UK & French ones reportedly featured Richard Belzer as Munch at least once. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949/7 "2010-01-22T22:32:14Z")
Couldn’t Jack McCoy, his assistant, and the officers just go to Los Angeles for a couple of episodes, like Laverne and Shirley? > [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > The UK & French ones reportedly featured Richard Belzer as Munch at least once. The German version featured him as Münch. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949/8 "2010-01-23T00:06:52Z")
There’s nothing interesting about an L&O Los Angeles. Much like CSI, if they want to breathe something new into their lumbering beasts they need to figure out something new. I long ago said CSI could get me to watch by doing a CSI: Wyoming. One team would have to cover the entire state. It wouldn’t be that hard to write as a series. ---
**Author:** ![2ply](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/b2d939/32.png) [@2ply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2ply)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949/9 "2010-01-23T00:54:03Z")
NBC doesn’t have any new ideas, do they? At least CBS can justify all those CSi and NCIS spinoffs because they’re all hits. The various Law and Order aren’t doing that well anymore. They should call the new show Law & Order: Dead Horse. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949/10 "2010-01-23T02:22:11Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Couldn’t Jack McCoy, his assistant, and the officers just go to Los Angeles for a couple of episodes, like Laverne and Shirley? They did, way back in Season 7, in a three part storyline ripped from the O.J. Simpson case. I will watch Law & Order: Los Angeles, at least long enough to decide whether I like the writing and the actors. But I agree that it would be more interesting to go someplace other than L.A. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949/11 "2010-01-23T19:31:44Z")
About time, as there is such a dearth of Law And Order episodes on television in first run and re-runs. I think there is actually 3 hours on a Tuesday where you can’t find an episode to watch. My suggestion: Law And Order: Amish Country The lead officers zip around in carriages drawn by thoroughbreds and nab suspects loitering around in empty barns and sneaking in Walkmans to listen to pirated music on newfangled tapes. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949/12 "2010-01-23T22:53:23Z")
No. I want my L&O gruff and cold, not sunny and happy. I’m going with “flop” - of course it’ll probably last forever. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949/13 "2010-01-23T23:14:26Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > There’s nothing interesting about an L&O Los Angeles. Angelenos might take exception . . . but I do find myself wondering how the crimes police detectives might investigate in LA would be so different from those in NYC. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-los-angeles/525949/14 "2010-01-23T23:24:54Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Angelenos might take exception . . . but I do find myself wondering how the crimes police detectives might investigate in LA would be so different from those in NYC. Maybe instead of changing the location for a spinoff they should change the _time period_. Keep in in NYC, but set in in the '50s (the 1950s and the 2050s are both good choices, as is the 1850s).