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Deadline Hollywood reports:

Eleven and a half years after NBC abruptly canceled Law & Order, denying its shot at making TV history, the network is bringing back Dick Wolf’s Emmy-winning series for a new season, its 21st.

Law & Order, which launched the biggest procedural franchise on TV, was on the cusp of breaking Gunsmoke’s record as the longest running primetime drama ever when NBC in May 2010 unceremoniously canceled the series without a proper finale when renewal negotiations fell through.

While Law & Order creator Wolf got to set a new record for the longest-running drama series with spinoff Law & Order: SVU, now in its 23rd season, he always felt he had unfinished business with the mothership series ending the way it did.

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Eleven and a half years after NBC abruptly canceled “Law & Order,” denying its shot at making TV history, the network is bringing back @WolfEnt’s Emmy-winning series for a new season, its 21st https://t.co/XcfTOzqb22

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) September 28, 2021