January 16, 2008
Last week, Law & Order: Criminal Intent returned to the NBC lineup after a season spent in airing on the network's sister cable station, USA. Viewers with access to cable programming have already witnessed Law & Order: Criminal Intent's seventh season. However, those without cable service will now get a chance to savor the show's latest season, with this special encore screening to fill in regular network programming that's been thrown into chaos by the writers' walkout.
For its debut back on NBC last week, Law & Order: Criminal Intent scored 2.5 in the ratings, 38 percent lower than its showing during its premiere last year. Its parent program, Law & Order, also took an 18 percent dip from last week's first episode at 3.1.
January 9, 2008
Tonight marks the return of Law & Order: Criminal Intent to NBC, following a season spent banished to NBC's sister cable company, USA Network. The Law & Order spin-off will take the 9pm timeslot and serve as lead-in for the returning parent show, which opened its 18th season last week with a two-hour premiere.
In a desperate move, major networks have had to resort to some last-minute repurposing in order to fill in the vacuum that's been left by a running out of original scripted episodes due to the two-month long writers' strike. So while Law & Order: Criminal Intent's seventh season has been airing on USA since October, NBC will still begin with the season opener tonight, before proceeding with the rest of the seventh season in weeks to come.
December 4, 2007
Law and Order is back from the dead. It was never really dead, I know, but after a full season of banishment into a dreaded Friday night time slot, and another half of the year completely off the air, it kind of felt like Law & Order was gone for good. Thankfully for fans of the ageless procedural, Law & Order is returning to air waves for its eighteenth season on Wednesday, January 2 for a two hour premiere. The following week, Law & Order will settle back into its long time Wednesday 10pm ET/PT time slot. Starting on that Wednesday, January 9, Law and Order: Criminal Intent will act as the original L&O's lead in, airing at 9pm. Criminal Intent had been banished to the purgatory of basic cable on the USA Network, where new episodes have been airing. NBC will start from the beginning of Criminal Intent's new season, and re-air the episodes on NBC.
October 18, 2007
Law & Order: Criminal Intent's Vincent D'Onofrio is about to become a dad again. He and his wife, Carin Van Der Donk, are expecting their second child this winter.
D'Onofrio and the rest of his Law & Order: Criminal Intent co-stars have just started their seventh season on a new network. The series has been moved from its original home at NBC to the network's sister station, USA.
October 4, 2007
The seventh season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent kicks off tonight. The opening episode, "Amends," will delve into the past of one of the show's lead characters.
Detective Alexandra Eames (Kathryn Erbe) is forced to re-examine her husband's murder following the death of his partner, who is killed on the job. In the process of re-opening the case, she finds herself thrust into the life she thought she had left behind.
July 17, 2007
This fall, Law & Order: Criminal Intent will be returning with a new cast member. As a temporary replacement for Julianne Nicholson, who is on maternity leave, actress Alicia Witt will be gracing the show as police detective Nola Falacci. The move is part of a trend that will hopefully bring in stronger female characters on the upcoming storylines.
While there is no word yet on what will happen to Nicholson’s character, Detective Megan Wheeler, upon the return of the police drama, Alicia Witt’s character is reportedly drafted as a partner for Detective Mike Logan (Chris North).
February 27, 2007
Actress Julianne Nicholson joined the cast of of Law and Order: Criminal Intent this season as Detective Megan Wheeler. Julianne has had a prolific career in both TV and film, appearing in Ally McBeal, Law & Order, ER and various others. Julianne stopped by to talk with us at BuddyTV last week. We discussed her start in acting, her time on Law & Order: CI, and what she has coming up in the future.
Can you tell us a little bit about how you got into acting? Was it something you always wanted to do?
Sure. It was something that I had wanted to do since I was very young, like 7 or 8 years old. But I didn’t actually start taking acting classes until I was 24. Where I grew up, it just seemed so far away and another world, I just didn’t think that I would be able to do that. And then moving to New York helped. I moved to New York when I was 18 and went to Hunter College and did some modeling and worked in restaurants and kicked around here for a while and in that time had met a number of people who were actors in varying stages of their careers and got hooked up with an acting teacher here in New York and studied with her for 2 years. And that was sort of my intro into the world. So it took about, you know, 20 years, but I got in it!
January 2, 2007
Finally.
After a month of holidays, egg nog, and more Snoopy and Ralphie Parker than one knows what to do with, we're finally back to normal. January is upon us, 2007 has begun its tyrannical, 300-plus day reign, and our favorite TV shows will no longer bludgeon us with repeats. Tomorrow, January 3rd, brings the return of a couple of our favorites, as well as two brand new shows.
After that, the flood begins, and over the next month virtually every original program will air new episodes. A full list of the returning dates for most every show on television is after the jump.