Saturday 25 June 2022

LAW & ORDER: SVU, OLIVIA BENSON & HER POLICE TEAM

Today, The Grandma has visited Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler, the two main members of the Special Victims Unit (SVU) in the New York City Police Department.

Meanwhile, The Newtons have continued preparing their Cambridge Exam. They have studied the Present Perfect.

More info: Present Perfect 

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, often abbreviated to Law & Order: SVU or just SVU, is an American crime drama television series created by Dick Wolf's own production company, Wolf Entertainment, for NBC.

The first spin-off of Law & Order, it starred Christopher Meloni as Det. Elliot Stabler until Meloni left the series in 2011 after 12 seasons, and Mariska Hargitay as Detective (ultimately promoted to Captain) Olivia Benson, now the commanding officer of the Special Victims Unit after originally having been Stabler's partner in a fictionalized version of the New York City Police Department.

Meloni reprised his role as Stabler in 2021 in the spin-off series Law & Order: Organized Crime.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit follows the style of the original Law & Order in that some episodes are loosely based on real crimes that have received media attention.

The show premiered on September 20, 1999. After the premiere of its 21st season in September 2019, the series became TV’s longest-running primetime U.S. live-action series in the history of television and the only live-action primetime series that debuted in the 1990s and is still producing new episodes.

As of October 21, 2021, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has aired 500 original episodes, more than surpassing the episode count of the original Law & Order series. In terms of all-time episode count for a primetime scripted series, SVU now ranks fourth behind The Simpsons (with 710 episodes), Gunsmoke (with 635 episodes), and Lassie (with 591 episodes).

In February 2020, the series was renewed through its 24th season. The 23rd season premiered on September 23, 2021, during which the show aired its milestone 500th episode.

The series has received 91 award nominations, winning 33 awards. Mariska Hargitay was the first regular cast member on any Law & Order series to win an Emmy Award when she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2006.

Based out of the NYPD New York City Police Department's 16th precinct in Manhattan, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit delves into the dark side of the New York underworld as the detectives of a new elite force, the Special Victims Unit (SVU for short), investigate and prosecute various sexually oriented crimes, including rape, child sexual abuse and domestic violence.

Many exterior scenes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit are filmed on location in New York City, Wolf's hometown, throughout all five of New York City's boroughs.

Fort Lee, New Jersey served as the filming location for Detective Elliot Stabler's residence in Queens, New York.

More information: NBC


Some things, you can put them behind you...
but they do change you.

Olivia Benson

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