EXCLUSIVE: The L Word creator Ilene Chaiken has signed a big overall deal with Universal Television to develop and produce scripted content.
As part of the pact, Chaiken will serve as executive producer/showrunner on the first season of NBC’s upcoming Law & Order: SVU spinoff series, Law & Order: Organized Crime, starring Chris Meloni, from Dick Wolf’s Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.Chaiken succeeds Matt Olmstead, who stepped down as showrunner in October.She is coming off a high-profile showrunner stint on Fox’s Empire at her previous studio home, 20th Television.
Chaiken also boarded Empire, created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong, at the start as showrunner, steering its ascent to become
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