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Law & Order: Trial By Jury
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Posted by: YCantAngieRead

Just as I had feared, the fourth installment in the Law & Order series looks like it's going to concentrate on the legal side as opposed to the police side.

AND it seems Jerry Orbach is perhaps leaving Law & Order to take part in it

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/...reut/index.html

This is a disappointment to me-does anyone really enjoy the legal side of Law & Order enough to make an entire show about it? Perhaps they've strayed away because the latest two were not about that at all, really...

Posted by: Steveknj

What's next, Law and Order - Traffic Violations?

Posted by: YCantAngieRead

Personally, even though I think it'd be something of a ripoff of a great show, I'd like to see something like Law & Order: Cold Case Squad.

Posted by: Corey140

quote:
Originally posted by Steveknj
What's next, Law and Order - Traffic Violations?

Hey, don't give them any idea! ;)

damn it, Lenny is leaving. They might just lose me as a viewer.....

Posted by: doconner

wasn't Law and Order - Traffic Violations an SNL skit from last season? Seems vaguely familiar.

Posted by: johndierks

Law and Order: Crime Scene Investigators

They can clean up any L&O competition.

Posted by: doom1701

A fourth L&O? How long until NBC just changes their name to LaO, and CBS changes theirs to CSI?

Posted by: BelugaWhale

It sounds like this is a replacement for the short-lived L&O spinoff that I think was called Crime and Punishment. I truthfully prefer the police side of the show (thus my love for CSI), but I'll watch this if it's good.

Posted by: YCantAngieRead

The difference is I believe this incarnation is fiction, as the Crime and Punishment one was non-fiction. But I'm so with you on the police side of things. I even find myself struggling to make it through an episode of the original series now because the legal part bores me.

Plus, I think Law & Order TBJ sounds more like a sandwich than a television show. :D

Posted by: rasheed

quote:
Originally posted by johndierks
Law and Order: Crime Scene Investigators

They can clean up any L&O competition.

I'm sure you have noticed, but L&O has pumped up its CSU related part of the show and the CSU people are on practically every episode.

L&O: TBJ is scheduled as a mid-season for 2004-2005 right now.

Rasheed

Posted by: VinceA

Except L&O makes their CSU guys as geeky as possible (a dig at CSI? maybe) where as CSI tries to make even their geekiest CSI's look cool (which they do... buy I'm a geek so I might be biased). I see it as good natured ribbing of the 'competition'.

Posted by: YCantAngieRead

Oh c'mon. Richard Belzer (who isn't a CSI, but I'm going with the nerd thing here) isn't about as nerdy as they come on prime-time. I actually like him in that role because he's probably more real than almost all the prime-time detectives.

I heart nerds.

Posted by: TivoZorro

Jerry Orbach who is 68 said he moved to the spin-off when he learned that NBC would be stepping up the Law & Order production schedule so that they can have new episodes ready to air earily in September, right after the Olympics.

He will have a lighter schedule with Trail by Jury where he will be able to work a couple of days on an episode.

He says the series will be like a D.A.'s squad that uses retired detectives.

Posted by: HTH

quote:
Originally posted by BelugaWhale
It sounds like this is a replacement for the short-lived L&O spinoff that I think was called Crime and Punishment.

Is it truly cancelled? I thought it was "short lived" because it has only had two seasons thus far and it only airs during the summer. This summer would be its third consecutive season, if they're planning on doing it.

Posted by: daperlman

quote:
Originally posted by HTH
Is it truly cancelled? I thought it was "short lived" because it has only had two seasons thus far and it only airs during the summer. This summer would be its third consecutive season, if they're planning on doing it.

It better not be cancelled forever... that was my favorite L&O. I think me and JohnJr. were the only 2 people in the forum that watched it.

The 'real' defendants are more incredible and less believable than the fictional characters. Anyway the horrible NBC website says it is coming back at the end of the summer.

Posted by: YCantAngieRead

I actually wanted to watch Crime and Punishment, but I could never figure out when and where it was on. Nothing better than true crime.

Posted by: Ntombi

IMO, Crime and Punishment is one of the few good things about the summer schedule.

Posted by: nyny523

I really liked C & P as well - interesting to see how the system really works.

Posted by: ADG

quote:
Originally posted by YCantAngieRead

This is a disappointment to me-does anyone really enjoy the legal side of Law & Order enough to make an entire show about it? Perhaps they've strayed away because the latest two were not about that at all, really... [/B]

Since CI & SVU concentrate primarily on the detective work and have gotten away from the 50/50 model of the original L&O, I think it's only natural that a new spinoff would emphasize the legal side. And yes, in our household I think we'd enjoy that - especially from this creative team.

Does anyone here remember "Arrest & Trial", the original L&O type product? I seem to remember it being a 90 minute show with the first half devoted to the police work involved in identifying & catching the criminals and the second half to the trial aspect. Chuck Connors starred if I recall correctly.

Posted by: Rob Helmerichs

quote:
Originally posted by YCantAngieRead
I actually wanted to watch Crime and Punishment, but I could never figure out when and where it was on. Nothing better than true crime.

There's this wonderful new invention called "TiVo"--it has this thing called a "Season Pass" where you don't have to know when a show is on, the "TiVo" will find it for you.

:D

Posted by: YCantAngieRead

quote:
There's this wonderful new invention called "TiVo"--it has this thing called a "Season Pass" where you don't have to know when a show is on, the "TiVo" will find it for you.

:D You have no idea how much easier this has made my life.