Law & Order: Organized Crime


 * "In the nation's largest city, the vicious and violent members of the underworld are hunted by the detectives of the Organized Crime Control Bureau. These are their stories."

Law & Order: Organized Crime is an American police procedural television series, created by Dick Wolf, Ilene Chaiken and Matt Olmstead that premiered on NBC on April 1, 2021.

As of April 8, 2021, the series has aired 2 episodes.

Premise
Elliot Stabler returns to the NYPD to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss. However, the city and police department have changed dramatically in the decade he’s been away, and he must adapt to a criminal justice system in the midst of its own moment of reckoning. Throughout the series, we will follow Stabler’s journey to find absolution and rebuild his life, while leading a new elite task force that is taking apart the city’s most powerful criminal syndicates one by one.

Development
On March 31, 2020, NBC announced that it had ordered a 13-episode series in which Christopher Meloni will reprise his role as Elliot Stabler. The series will center around an organized crime task force headed by Stabler. On June 2, 2020, the title of Organized Crime was announced and two weeks later, it was revealed that it would be a part of NBC's fall 2020 schedule set to air on Thursday, 10/9c. However, the series was later delayed until midseason. It is set to premiere sometime in 2021. Production for Organized Crime began on January 25, 2021. On January 27, Dylan McDermott joined the cast. On February 2, 2021, it was announced that Tamara Taylor joined the cast. On February 16, 2021, it was announced that Danielle Moné Truitt joined the cast. On February 19, 2021, it was announced that Ainsley Seiger had joined the main cast and that Jaylin Fletcher, Charlotte Sullivan, Nick Creegan, and Ben Chase would join the recurring cast.

Law & Order: Organized Crime is a Wolf Entertainment production in association with Universal Television. Dick Wolf and Matt Olmstead are creators and executive producers. Arthur Forney and Peter Jankowski are executive producers. In October, it was announced that Olmstead had stepped down as showrunner, and he was later replaced by Ilene Chaiken in December 2020.