NBC sets April 1 premiere for Law & Order: Organized Crime in a two-hour crossover

Nearly a decade after leaving Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Christopher Meloni’s Elliot Stabler will finally reunite with Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson.

NBC has set an April 1 premiere for the new spin-off Law & Order: Organized Crime, which will bring Elliot Stabler back to New York City.

The premiere will be part of a two-hour crossover with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, with SVU airing at 9 PM and Organized Crime at 10 PM.

Law & Order: Organized Crime will follow Stabler as he returns to the New York Police Department to run its Organized Crime division.

Stabler returns to the NYPD after suffering, ‘a devastating personal loss,’ ass he tries to ‘rebuild his life.

Part of his ‘rebuild’ will include forming an ‘elite task force that is taking apart the city’s most powerful criminal syndicates one by one.’ 

Meloni will star alongside Dylan McDermott and Tamara Taylor, though no details were given for their characters. 

Law & Order: Organized Crime was created by Dick Wolf, who will executive produce along with Ilene Chaiken, Terry Miller, Fred Berner, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski.

The show was originally announced in late March 2020, and it was originally slated to debut this past fall, though a number of complications arose. 

Back in October, showrunner Matt Olmstead left the show amid creative challenges, which shifted the show off of the fall schedule.

The network announced in December that The L Word creator Ilene Chaiken had come aboard to step in as showrunner, after serving as showrunner on Empire.

McDermott joined the cast last week with Taylor coming aboard this week, though it’s unclear when production will get started. 

Law & Order: Organized Crime was created by Dick Wolf, who will executive produce along with Ilene Chaiken, Terry Miller, Fred Berner, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski.

Meloni starred alongside Hargitay on SVU from the beginning in 1999, with the detectives rapport making them one of the most dynamic duos on television.

SVU is now in its 22nd season, the longest-running live-action primetime program in television history.

NBC and Dick Wolf Productions signed a new five-year deal back in February 2020, which included unprecedented three-season renewals for SVU along with Wolf’s trio of Windy City shows – Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med.