Production on season seventeen started in late May 2015 on the two-hour season premiere, afterwards the cast and crew took a hiatus and resumed filming on August 21, 2015. It was announced in March 2015 that season seventeen would be show runner/executive producer Warren Leight's last season on the show: Leight signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Television that allowed him to work on SVU for one final season. Mariska Hargitay ( Olivia Benson) had her contract renewed for season 17, as well as Ice-T ( Det. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was renewed for a seventeenth season on February 5, 2015, by NBC. on NBC.The seventeenth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit debuted on Wednesday, Septemon NBC, and concluded on Wednesday, May 25, 2016. Law & Order: SVU airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. I've given my all to the crossovers at this point." Someone else will have to come up with the premise. "We had one story that I thought could work, but we're prepping that now as a one-hour for us. and Law & Order: SVU, the shows won't be crossing over again until next season at the earliest, according to Leight, who declares this is his "last crossover" before he steps down as SVU showrunner in May. They'll go at it pretty hard, but there's more mutual respect than there was the first time around."ĭespite the camaraderie between Chicago P.D. They know each other's strengths and weaknesses. "It's almost like basketball teams that have played each other a few times. "There's enough history that they fold easily now into each other," says Leight. are happy to travel to the Windy City to lend a helping hand, especially since they were the ones who put away both escaped inmates to begin with.
"Also, Lindsay has unfinished business because Yates killed her roommate, Nadia."Īfter working together on several other cases, Lt. "He has unfinished business there," Leight says. Once out from behind bars, it doesn’t take long for Yates to return to Chicago, where he once again faces off with Lindsay. "What can you do once you send two guys to prison for life? Have 'em escape. "We had one little scene with Rudnick and Yates sitting down in the cafeteria that I threw in at the last minute while we were shooting the episode because I thought, 'Well, wouldn’t these two be great prison bunkmates?' and then the David Sweat prison break happened last spring," Leight says of the season premiere, which was filmed last spring before the infamous upstate New York prison-escapee hunt.
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Yates was last seen in the SVU season premiere serving a life sentence in an upstate New York prison alongside serial killer Rudnick (Jefferson Mays). character Nadia (Stella Maeve) last April. on SVU and concludes the following hour on P.D., centers on one of the toughest criminals to face either team: serial killer Greg Yates (Dallas Roberts), who killed beloved recurring P.D. The story, which begins Wednesday at 9 p.m. Thankfully, Leight had the perfect story in his back pocket that he had originally plotted as a two-part SVU. "And Dick said, 'OK,' which is Dick excited." Out of desperation, I said, 'Dick, what if instead of the four-way, we did a perfect SVU-to-P.D. Instead, Leight tried to suggest starting the crossover on Wednesday with SVU and wrapping it the following Tuesday, "but that didn’t go over too well because they wanted it to be on two consecutive nights. "I was trying to think what case starts in a hospital, goes to a fire station, goes to New York and then goes back to Chicago." on Wednesdays - "I was trying to wrap my head around a story that would touch all those bases," he says. Because of the order in which the shows air in a given week - Chicago Med, followed by Chicago Fire on Tuesdays, then Law & Order: SVU and concluding with Chicago P.D. It was not only the scope of the four-show, multi-night endeavor that gave Leight pause. "My head - I won't say it exploded, but it expanded," Leight tells The Hollywood Reporter with a laugh. It was news to journalists, as well as to SVU showrunner Warren Leight. Uber-producer Dick Wolf made headlines last August when he announced a planned four-show crossover between Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med and Law & Order: SVU to air this month.
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