‘Law & Order’ Renewed for Season 26 on NBC

The detectives and prosecutors of Law & Order will stay on the job for one other season.

NBC has renewed the long-running drama for a twenty sixth installment in 2026-27, and the sixth season since IT was revived in 2022. The pickup comes later than normal for Law & Order — the official phrase comes simply earlier than the beginning of NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation Monday. Its spinoff Law & Order: SVU was renewed in mid-Apriland NBC’s three Chicago dramas — which, just like the IT franchise, come from Dick Wolf’s Wolf Entertainment — earned pickups near the end of March.

Law & Order will stay on Thursdays in NBC’s schedule for subsequent season, nevertheless it’s transferring from 8 to 10 pm — following slightly than previous SVU. TO civilian version of The Traitors will lead off Thursdays within the fall.

The delay in renewal Law & Order got here right down to finances discussions and discovering a spot on the schedule, stated Lisa Katz, president scripted content material for NBC and Peacock.

“It’s funny that people were saying it was a bubble show,” Katz informed reporters on a name in regards to the 2026-27 schedule. “We love the present. We love the [Law & Order] block. It was very a lot a puzzle of determining what went the place, and now we have civilians Traitors coming within the fall. So it was simply attempting to place all of the items [together] and determine what number of episodes and after they would come. But we’re very excited to have it again.”

Law & Order continues to be a dependable performer for NBC, averaging 4.75 million viewers this season with seven days of linear viewing. On streaming, the present (together with its enormous library on Peacock and Hulu) is an everyday presence in Nielsen’s prime 10 streaming charts; it has made the acquired sequence prime 10 in 25 of the previous 35 weeks.

Law & Order stars Reid Scott, David Ajala and Maura Tierney on the NYPD aspect of the present and Hugh Dancy, Odelya Halevi and Tony Goldwyn because the prosecutor crew.

Universal Television produces the sequence in affiliation with Wolf Entertainment. Wolf government produces with Rick Eid, Alex Hall and Peter Jankowski.

With Law & Order renewed, one NBC present continues to be in limbo. The community nonetheless hasn’t decided on second-year drama The Hunting Partywhich underperformed its first season considerably. Katz informed NBC likes the present’s artistic route, however its lack of a spot on the schedule for now comes right down to trying for potential development with new reveals.