Gwen Sigan: Last News

Jesse Lee Soffer has announced that he is leaving Chicago PD after the upcoming 10th season.

Emily Longeretta Jesse Lee Soffer is turning in his badge on “Chicago P.D.” The upcoming 10th season will be the last for Soffer, Variety can exclusively announce. The actor has portrayed Det. Jay Halstead since the NBC series’ debut in 2014, appearing in all 187 episodes. He will be departing sometime in the fall. “I want to thank the incredible fans for their unwavering support during the past 10 years and want to express my deepest gratitude to Dick Wolf and everyone at Wolf Entertainment, Peter Jankowski, Matt Olmstead, Derek Haas, Michael Brandt, Rick Eid, Gwen Sigan, NBC, Universal Television, my fellow castmates and our incredible crew,” he said in a statement to Variety on Monday. “To create this hour drama week after week has been a labor of love by everyone who touches the show. I will always be proud of my time as Det. Jay Halstead.”

Michaela Zee editor For the first time in the history of Dick Wolf’s “Law & Order” franchise, all three dramas are uniting for a special premiere event on Sept. 22 from 8-11 p.m. ET on NBC. The historic “Law & Order” crossover, which will kick off NBC’s 2022-23 TV season, intertwines the storylines of “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU” and “Law & Order: Organized Crime.” Following the murder of a mysterious young girl, Detective Frank Cosgrove (Jeffrey Donovan) and Detective Jalen Shaw (Mehcad Brooks) team up to track down her killer. Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and district attorney Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) also join forces to help solve the homicide case.

The “Law & Order” multiverse is taking shape. NBC announced Wednesday that all three “Law & Order” franchises will unite for the first time ever in an epic three-hour crossover in September.

franchise will make history when all three series return in the fall. NBC has officially announced that the casts of each spin-off –, and – will come together for a three-hour special event, kicking off the new seasons of each criminal procedural. Capt.

For the first time in the history of the Law & Order franchise, all three of Dick Wolf’s dramas on NBC will come together for a special crossover event to help the network kick off its 2022-23 TV season.

EXCLUSIVE: Benjamin Levy Aguilar has been promoted to series regular for Season 10 of NBC’s Chicago P.D. He will reprise the role of Dante Torres who, fresh off patrol, comes to Intelligence as a rookie.

EXCLUSIVE: Lisa Muse Bryant, who exec produced the second season of NBC’s Kenan, is staying in the NBCUniversal family.

Emily Longeretta When Dick Wolf kicked off the “One Chicago” world on NBC in 2012 with “Chicago Fire” — a spinoff of the “Law & Order” universe — it was a bit of a boys’ club.Derek Haas, Matt Olmstead and Michael Brandt led “Fire” as showrunners; less than two years later, “Chicago P.D.” premiered with Olmstead at the head. In 2015 came the third leg of the franchise with “Chicago Med” under Andrew Dettmann, Andrew Schneider and Diane Frolov.

Chicago PD returned to screens on Wednesday and fans saw Adam Ruzek (played by Patrick John Flueger) and Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) decide to move forward separately, after they discovered that Kim's daughter Makayla was coping better with their current schedule.Exclusive: Chicago PD's Marina Squerciati and Patrick John Flueger break down 'rough' episode 15Despite Adam asking for them to return to the previous schedule where he saw Makayla more often, Kim shared that Makayla was sleeping better and that it may be in her best interests if they continued in that manner, leaving Adam to return, on his own, to an apartment rented for an investigation.WATCH: Ruzek wants to know where he stands with Kim and Makayla Gwen Sigan, executive producer, has now shared that moving forward, fans "will see him dealing with the aftermath of the decision to go in separate directions" but promised that they aren't "tying a bow" on the romance."We looked at it as, emotionally, Ruzek was coming from a place of being in a tense situation at home, dealing with the aftermath of what happened with Makayla , and he was presented with an opportunity by someone he knew from the past to save this person's daughter and then what that emotionally means to him when he was in that space," shared Gwen with HELLO!MORE: Chicago Fire bosses detail how they 'are 'shifting gears' for anticipated season 10 finaleMORE: Chicago Fire's Taylor Kinney sparks mixed reaction with new behind-the-scenes photo"If there is any recklessness it comes from a place of wanting something to go right and fix something, and put a family back together because in his own family he cannot do that at this moment.""Now comes either healing or separation, they either learn and

EXCLUSIVE: Amina Munir is formalizing her relationship with Universal Television.

EXCLUSIVE:  Chicago P.D. writer/executive producer Gwen Sigan has been promoted to showrunner. She is taking the reins of the long-running NBC series as part of an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, which produces the cop drama.