Days after announcing the renewals of their Chicago trio, NBC has renewed their other Dick Wolf shows - Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU - for next season. Like the Chicagos, these Law & Order renewals are for just one more season each. Both shows are among the top performers on NBC, a network that had a very rough year in the ratings. Despite a 25% year-to-year drop, SVU tied Chicago PD as NBC's #4 series this season with a 0.35 average, behind two other Chicagos and The Voice, and it remains a massive hit on streaming, consistently ranking as the top TV offering on Peacock. Law & Order, a revival of the series that originally ran from 1990 to 2010, is weaker than its spinoff in both regards. It averages 0.30 in the key 18-49 demo, tying it for seventh overall on NBC this season. The show is also not a multiplatform success on the level of SVU, but remains one of NBC's highest-rated series overall. Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Peter Scanavino and Kevin Kane star in SVU and are expected to return for season twenty-seven, while fellow regular cast members Octavio Pisano and Juliana Aidén Martinez will both depart after the current season. Law & Order stars Hugh Dancy, Reid Scott, Mehcad Brooks, Maura Tierney, Tony Goldwyn and Odelya Halevi. Like SVU, Law & Order may see cast exits for its just-ordered twenty-fifth season, though none have been announced thus far. Salary cuts are also expected, as NBC continues to cut the budgets of even its highest-rated shows. These are both correct predictions for The TV Ratings Guide.
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