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It couldn't have been scripted better: A cute receptionist helps catch a career criminal—thanks to her deep love for Law & Order: SVU—and then appears on the Today Show and gets props from Detective Olivia Benson herself!

It's a story that Dick Wolf would approve of: A receptionist helped the cops catch a career criminal by setting aside a paper cup he used—all thanks to the armchair detective knowledge she acquired from watching crime dramas like Law & Order: SVU! Of course, the cops initially declined to take evidence—Detective Eliot Stabler would totally rage out about that.

Isabel Gillies may be familiar to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit viewers for her role as Detective Stabler's wife, Kathy, but her real life role as a wife and mother is what takes center stage in her debut memoir, Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story, which vividly describes the arc of a heady love affair through happy marriage and blissful parenthood into a painful divorce and awakening. Her memoir is charming, self-deprecating, harrowing and ultimately triumphant. We spoke to her last week about why she wanted to tell her story.

Michaela McManus, Fordham graduate who was recently on One Tree HIll, is going to be the new ADA on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Producer Dick Wolf said he looked forward to creating "another interesting and memorable character in the Law & Order universe." Previous ADA Casey Novak (played by Diane Neal) left because of her over-aggressive tactics to nail a suspect and the ADA before that, Alexandra Cabot (played by Stephanie March), went into witness protection.

It may be hard to believe, but tonight’s episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (10:00 p.m., WNBC 4) is the 200th episode for the first of the Law & Order spin-offs.

We already covered the Super Bowl half time show alternatives, but what if you're not a football fan or your team didn’t make it? What if you don’t want to sit through a football game to watch commercials or if you hate Joe Buck and Troy Aikman? Well, don’t worry, there are some television alternatives for you if you don’t want to watch either the game or the countless hours of pre-game shows.

A look at some noteworthy television this week: Art in the Twenty-First Century (Sunday, 10:00 p.m., WNET 13) Four artists - Robert Adams, Mark Dion , Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle Ursula von Rydingsvard – who explore the intersection between nature and culture. Billy Crystal: The Mark Twain Prize (Monday & Thursday, 9:00 p.m., WNET 13; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. WLIW 21) Billy Crystal receives the tenth annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in...