Save Law & Order: Organized Crime
Save Law & Order: Organized Crime
The Issue
On April 16, 2026, Peacock announced that it was cancelling Law & Order: Organized Crime. It was a big disappointment to the industry.
It ran for five seasons. Initially ran on NBC, then moved to Peacock.
The decision doesn’t come as a huge surprise; the Law & Order spinoff’s most recent fifth season launched on Peacock exactly a year ago. It subsequently got a second-window run on NBC, the series’ home for its first four seasons, last fall.
As the show is dead, the show is scrambling for a new showrunner.
Organized Crime, from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, follows Law & Order: SVU‘s Elliot Stabler (Meloni) in his return to the NYPD to work on the Organized Crime Task Force.
The series had been an outlier from the start, a departure from the Dick Wolf close-ended procedural brand with more serialized storytelling. Possibly as a result, the series performed below the five other Wolf dramas (One Chicago, Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order) in linear ratings during its tenure on NBC, leading to its move to Peacock after Season 4.
It’s hard to turn on a switch and reinvent a series that had aired on broadcast for four seasons as a streaming show overnight, and Organized Crime struggled with its dual broadcast-streaming identity in its fifth season.
As Deadline reported in July, while serialized, Season 5 came in less dark and edgy as anticipated, making it suitable for a 10 PM airing on broadcast. That led to NBC’s decision to put the show back in the Law & Order Thursday lineup last fall where it delivered respectable linear viewership.
Christopher Meloni has another series; he is the lead of Dan Fogelman’s upcoming NFL drama for Hulu The Land.
Sign a petition to save Law & Order: Organized Crime and will be back for a sixth season!
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The Issue
On April 16, 2026, Peacock announced that it was cancelling Law & Order: Organized Crime. It was a big disappointment to the industry.
It ran for five seasons. Initially ran on NBC, then moved to Peacock.
The decision doesn’t come as a huge surprise; the Law & Order spinoff’s most recent fifth season launched on Peacock exactly a year ago. It subsequently got a second-window run on NBC, the series’ home for its first four seasons, last fall.
As the show is dead, the show is scrambling for a new showrunner.
Organized Crime, from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, follows Law & Order: SVU‘s Elliot Stabler (Meloni) in his return to the NYPD to work on the Organized Crime Task Force.
The series had been an outlier from the start, a departure from the Dick Wolf close-ended procedural brand with more serialized storytelling. Possibly as a result, the series performed below the five other Wolf dramas (One Chicago, Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order) in linear ratings during its tenure on NBC, leading to its move to Peacock after Season 4.
It’s hard to turn on a switch and reinvent a series that had aired on broadcast for four seasons as a streaming show overnight, and Organized Crime struggled with its dual broadcast-streaming identity in its fifth season.
As Deadline reported in July, while serialized, Season 5 came in less dark and edgy as anticipated, making it suitable for a 10 PM airing on broadcast. That led to NBC’s decision to put the show back in the Law & Order Thursday lineup last fall where it delivered respectable linear viewership.
Christopher Meloni has another series; he is the lead of Dan Fogelman’s upcoming NFL drama for Hulu The Land.
Sign a petition to save Law & Order: Organized Crime and will be back for a sixth season!
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Petition created on April 20, 2026