Dick Wolf's "One Chicago" is taking over NBC, but it's still just a fantasy
“Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.”
"It's not algorithms, it's arithmetic": Dick Wolf on why he still prefers broadcast networks to Netflix
Last month at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Dick Wolf said his “appetite for expansion is not…
Dick Wolf to just keep on being the most common name on TV
In the criminally unjust Hollywood system, failure-to-renew offenses are considered especially heinous. In Los Angeles,…
Will The Chi be the first series to do Chicago right?
No city is a “character.” As much as creators like to elevate their stories by claiming a location, it’s just a clichéd…
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Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders is an uneven but promising throwback
Dick Wolf’s original Law & Order series spawned multiple spin-offs that, rather counterintuitively, proved most…
CBS nabs a Dick Wolf show of its very own
TV mega producer Dick Wolf is basically synonymous with NBC, thanks to his decades-spanning work on the network’s Law &…
Dick Wolf says he’ll never run out of murders to dramatize
After decades of Law & Order shows that “ripped” their stories from the headlines, Dick Wolf is ready for a change.…
NBC cancels Chicago Justice after one season
The Dick Wolf empire at NBC just got a teensy bit smaller. The network has finally ruled on Chicago Justice and has…
NBC renews Law & Order: SVU for a 19th season
In news that’s discouraging in the sense that it means that the world’s supply of horrific sex crimes is truly…
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Chicago Justice’s pedigree sets it up to fail
The only surprising thing about Chicago Justice, the fourth entry in Dick Wolf’s “Chicago” franchise, is that it took…
Oxygen turns to a life of crime, rebrands itself as Crime Network
Ladies love cool crime—at least, that’s been the unofficial motto of nearly all women-targeting TV channels and…
Dick Wolf wants to turn Oxygen into an all-crime channel
According to Variety, Law & Order and Chicago Fire/P.D./Whatever mastermind Dick Wolf is having “discussions” with…
Dick Wolf is making an unscripted show about and with the FBI
Variety is reporting that procedural super-producer Dick Wolf has lined up yet another project, this time an unscripted…
Zayn Malik and Dick Wolf are developing a boy band drama for NBC
Presumably while growing increasingly jealous of Greg Berlanti’s gradual takeover of all TV, Law & Order mastermind…
NBC’s fall lineup no longer objects to comedy on Thursdays
Today, May 16, marks the beginning of broadcast television upfront presentations, an annual ritual in which NBC, CBS,…
NBC goes spinoff crazy, orders more Blacklist and Dick Wolf shows
We’re still catching the tail end of the past week’s TV scheduling storm, with a few light flurries of network series…
Law & Order to stop ripping stories from the headlines and just copy them outright
No longer content with merely ripping stories from the headlines, Dick Wolf and Law & Order are getting ready to start…
NBC adds some Carl Weathers to get its Chicago Justice stew going
Perhaps concerned that he might be leading audiences to believe that Chicago is run entirely by emergency personnel, Dic…
Justified’s Joelle Carter to mete out some Chicago Justice for NBC
The long arm of the Law & Order franchise reached beyond New York City in 2012, when Dick Wolf welcomed firefighters to…