Gothamist: Election Year Politics Force Law & Order Changes

adam

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:14:32 -0500

who cares? Law and Order died with Jerry Orbach

jmchez

Thu, 31 May 2007 19:17:18 -0500

McCoy has been an ADA for a long time but in real life no one in Manhattan has had a chance at been DA for 40 years as Morgenthau will die in that office. Ally McBeal and The Practice (before it spun off Boston Legal) cross promoted, L&O cross promoted with Homicide and within L&O, the mothership cross promoted with SVU. However, for my money, the best cross promotion scene in the annals of L&O was the one in Trial by Jury when all of the ADAs (L&O, SVU, CI. TbJ)sat at a meeting with Fred Thompson as DA. That was great, as I've seen the ADA of CI or SVU meet with Thompson only once. McCoy seems to be the only one that is shown meeting with his DA regularly on camera. As for Stanley Tucci playing an Italian American anti-Mafia prosecutor. That's an inspired idea.

gabe

Thu, 31 May 2007 18:14:41 -0500

I agree with the theory of bumping McCoy up to DA (I mean, fer Krissakes he's been an ADA for how long?) More to the point, I'd love to see a mostly bald, late 30s early 40s, loud, noxious, driven, ambitious, crusading, exasperating, mob-bashing DA. You know, someone in the mold of Rudy when he took down the Westies and smacked the crap out of the Fish Market - you know, before he went mad with power. Too bad Stan Tucci is already signed on for ER next year - he'd be pitch perfect.

Confused

Thu, 31 May 2007 18:14:36 -0500

Matt - ROTFyouknowtherest! Cynical or idealistic can be debated, but the supermodels comment is perfect! Re: cross-promotion - the reg L&O characters would be flummoxed by the BL characters - but I'd love to see Goren & Eames deal with them!!

KevinWalsh

Thu, 31 May 2007 16:52:07 -0500

I like cross promotions. Let McCoy and pals face off against Spader and Shatner at Boston Legal. www.forgotten-ny.com

Matt

Thu, 31 May 2007 16:31:07 -0500

Confused, you reminded me of this quote from Amy Poehler on a recent episode of SNL: "NBC announced Monday it will once again renew its long-running drama series Law & Order. Which, as near as I can tell, is about a kindly old grandfather who teaches cynicism to a series of supermodels."

Confused

Thu, 31 May 2007 15:44:37 -0500

Am I getting older, or is the Jack McCoy character increasingly out-of-it? Seems he keeps pushing for perfect endings, and is oblivious to the real world.

jmchez

Thu, 31 May 2007 15:31:00 -0500

Jack Macoy never ran for DA because he wasn't a political animal, as all of the DAs kept reminding him. So how would that work out? Lowell's character is already a judge (shown in a few episodes) and Brook's character was shown to have become a hothead attorney who handles politically charged cases. I'd say make Bebe Neuwirth the ADA. Her show may have been the only one of the L&O franchise that failed but I liked her in it.

Tim N.

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:47:17 -0500

Bring back Ben Stone! Stone For DA!

Chris

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:08:18 -0500

They should move the Chris Noth from L&O:CI back to the regular L&O.

zzzzzzzzzz

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:05:08 -0500

L&O is totally a fantasy universe. I'm going let you in on a secret. Law and Order is a television show. Maybe the creators felt like trying something different after 10 years of Adam Schiff being a clone of Morgenthou.

Frog

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:00:02 -0500

Exactly. How it would it all work without a white man at the top to personify "the man"?

NeatEngine

Thu, 31 May 2007 12:53:06 -0500

L&O is totally a fantasy universe. I assume Fred Thompson's character, Arthur Branch, is a Republican. And this is the Manhattan DA?!?!

Frog

Thu, 31 May 2007 11:54:18 -0500

Well, considering that the show has basically been reduced to little more than a politically correct fantasy universe where only white males are criminals, why not cast Charles Barron as th D.A.?