Law & Order: For the Defense, which had been slated for a fall 2021 launch with a straight-to-series order, has been scrapped by NBC.
The legal drama, which was supposed to be part of a Law & Order Thursday lineup alongside Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime, will be replaced on the schedule by veteran The Blacklist, which will relocate from Fridays to the Thursday 8 PM berth.Dick Wolf had partnered with Carol Mendelsohn on Law & Order: For the Defense, which received a straight-to-series order in early May.
The project, which takes a look inside a criminal defense firm, had progressed to the casting stage, with offers made to name actors over the past two months.I hear a decision was ultimately made to not proceed with the
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