Chris Meloni will not return to “Law & Order: SVU” this fall. Contract negotiations broke down between NBC and Meloni just a week after NBC chief Robert Greenblatt announced that a deal was “nearly done.”
The Emmy-nominated actor, who has co-starred opposite Mariska Hargitay since the show’s inception in 1999, will not return for the show’s 13th season…
At his upfront presentation for advertisers in New York, Greenblatt added that the network had plans to “reset the tone” of the series. With new showrunner Warren Leight replacing Neal Baer this fall, the stories would “still be compelling but a little more grounded,” he said. [THR]
It just doesn’t make any sense to me. It’s not like Meloni’s such a star that he’ll make more money doing movies. I think staying on NBC would have been the “Stabler” career move. *bowtie spins* Thanks, folks. Tip your waitress.
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I think staying on NBC would have been the “Stabler” career move.
(*throws tomatoes at stage*)
I hope this is just one step closer to the Wet Hot American Summer reunion movie which would take place 10 years late at 9:30.
I’d be in it to win it just to sniff Hargy’s hair. Mmmmmmmm nomnius.
I heard he was resigning the role so he could spend more time with his life partner Tobias Beecher.
I can’t decide who the more ironic casting choice was for that show.
The rapper who made a song called “Cop Killer” that is now playing a police detective.
OR
The guy who regularly sodomized and raped people on OZ casted as a detective who investigates sodomy and rape.
Hopefully he’ll pick another role that will require him to take his clothes off all the time. I really enjoyed that period of his career.
Who?
That dude hates pedophiles, yo.
He just wants to spend more time fondling his sweaters.
I think staying on NBC would have been the “Stabler” career move.
Ken “The Snake” Stabler did color commentary on CBS, not NBC.
/getting the original joke would require some basic level of familiarity with the show, which I do not possess.
Pretty sure they can just get Elias Koteas involved. People would just say, “Cool – Meloni grew facial hair.”
Your atirecls are for when it absolutely, positively, needs to be understood overnight.