NBC Orders "Law & Order: Hate Crimes" Series from Dick Wolf & Warren Leight
by Nellie Andreeva
September 4, 2018


As "Law & Order: SVU" is heading into its record-tying 20th season, NBC is expanding the "Law & Order" franchise with a 13-episode order to "Law & Order: Hate Crimes", from Dick Wolf.

Co-created with one of Wolf’s top lieutenants, former "Law & Order: SVU" showrunner Warren Leight, the latest "Law & Order" installment is based on New York’s actual Hate Crimes Task Force, the second oldest bias-based task force in the U.S.

The unit, which pledges to uphold a zero tolerance policy against discrimination of any kind, works under the NYPD’s real Special Victims Unit and often borrows SVU’s detectives to assist in their investigations.





The new series will be introduced as a planted spin-off from "SVU", with the first incarnation of the new unit appearing in the latter part of the upcoming season of the Mariska Hargitay-starring series.

"Law & Order: Hate Crimes" is set in New York City, where crimes motivated by discrimination are vigorously investigated by an elite, specially trained team of investigators. Going behind the headlines and viral videos, these diverse, dedicated and passionate detectives will stop at nothing to bring these criminals to justice.







“As Law & Order: SVU enters its remarkable 20th season, it is exciting to get back into business with Dick Wolf on a new Law & Order incarnation that feels extremely timely,” said Lisa Katz, Co-President of Scripted Programming, NBC Entertainment.

“Considering that last year there was a double-digit rise in hate crimes in our 10 largest cities — the highest total in over a decade — it seemed like this topic is begging to be explored.”





Added Tracey Pakosta, Co-President of Scripted Programming, NBC Entertainment:

“We’re confident that Dick and Warren will examine these cases in all their complexity and deliver another riveting series for our country, currently grappling with an escalation of these crimes and the motivations behind them.”




“As with all of my crime shows, I want to depict what’s really going on in our cities and shine a light on the wide-ranging victims and show that justice can prevail,” Wolf said.

“Twenty years ago when SVU began, very few people felt comfortable coming forward and reporting these crimes, but when you bring the stories into people’s living rooms – with characters as empathetic as Olivia Benson – a real dialogue can begin. That’s what I hope we can do with this new show in a world where hate crimes have reached an egregious level.”




Added Leight, “I’m extremely impressed by the actual men and women investigating these cases in a city as complicated and diverse as New York. The work they are doing puts them on the front lines in a battle for the soul of our city and nation. I’m thrilled about the chance to reunite with Dick and NBC to portray the reality of this crisis.”

https://deadline.com/2018/09/law-order-hate-crimes-series-nbc-dick-wolf-warren-leight-1202456899/

Let me guess. Even though blacks attack whites at 10 times the rate that whites attack blacks, every episode will feature PC victims, either non-white or gay.

"Law & Order: Hate Crimes" Series Pushed at NBC
by Nellie Andreeva
March 4, 2019


NBC is putting a pin in its plans for "Law & Order: Hate Crimes", the greenlighted new "Law & Order" spin-off from the franchise’s creator Dick Wolf.

Last September, the network gave a 13-episode order to the project, which was supposed to be introduced as a planted spin-off from "Law & Order: SVU" in an episode during the latter part of the veteran drama’s current record-tying 20th season before launching next season.

That will no longer happen.





"Law & Order: Hate Crimes", co-created by Wolf and one of his top lieutenants, former "Law & Order: SVU" showrunner Warren Leight, remains in active development at the network as everyone needed more time to fresh out the concept.

"SVU" has not been renewed yet but likely will be so it can break the record for the longest-run drama series jointly held by "Gunsmoke" and "Law & Order", so the spin-off could be introduced during SVU‘s 21st and likely final season.

https://deadline.com/2019/03/law-order-hate-crimes-series-pushed-nbc-1202568228/

"Law & Order: Hate Crimes" Likely Bound for Peacock Streaming Service Due to Language Concerns
by Matt Webb Mitovich
June 5 2020


A long-brewing "Law & Order" spin-off may eventually land with a new home, so as to most genuinely tell its stories.

"Law & Order: Hate Crimes" was given a 13-episode order back in September 2018, though NBC pressed pause on the spin-off six months later. (The Hate Crimes team was initially slated to be introduced during a Season 20 episode of Law & Order: SVU, but as TVLine reported at the time, NBC was focused on getting the latest spinoff “right” versus “meeting an artificial deadline.”)




Now, SVU showrunner Warren Leight, who has been shepherding the "Hate Crimes" offshoot, told the latest edition of THR’s TV’s Top 5 podcast, “I think it was perceived to be a better fit with Peacock” aka NBC Universal’s new streaming service. “The vocabulary people use when they commit hate crimes is not acceptable on network television, and that’s an interesting consideration.”

Even in light of (or because of) current events and TV’s responsibility to react to them, which Leight addressed in-depth on the podcast, “I think [Hate Crimes] is a show that needs to be made,” he said. “Where it dovetails with SVU, it’s about the toll a hate crime takes on a victim, a victim’s family, and a community. It’s an arena I think needs to be written about. I’d like to see this show go [forward].”

https://tvline.com/2020/06/05/law-order-hate-crimes-spinoff-peacock-streaming-service-language/