Law & Order has returned! And it’s got Dennis Farina whom I’ve admired since Crime Story.
Not much fanfare from the local broadcaster, of course. This’ll mark at least a decade’s worth of necessary sharp-eyed t.v. guide-spotting for a programme that is scheduled late, moved around at will, and sometimes abruptly stopped completely to make way for cricket or quality reality programming.
It clashes with Green Wing, but. Just as well the VCR’s still grinding along.
[...] I’d spent almost half of my life in thrall of Dick Wolf’s Law & Order (at least, as much as the local broadcasters allowed) before Shawn Ryan’s The Shield arrived and pissed and shit all over the television police procedural genre. Cop shows haven’t been the same since then. [...]