General Information
Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. Created by Dick Wolf, the award-winning Law & Order is broadcast on the NBC network and syndicated on other US networks, as well as worldwide. The show is produced by NBC Universal Television Studio, formerly known as Universal Television and Studios USA.
Law & Order first appeared on the NBC network in the fall of 1990, and its success has resulted in the creation of additional shows under the Law & Order franchise. It is the longest-running primetime drama currently on American television. Only two other current primetime series -- FOX's animated comedy The Simpsons and CBS News' magazine program 60 Minutes -- have been on the air longer.
The pilot episode was produced for CBS in 1988, but it never aired on that network. Instead, it aired as Episode 6 on NBC in 1990.
Law & Order's seventeenth season on NBC began on Friday, September 22 at 10PM EST and will continue as an anchor of the network's Friday lineup; the show had aired on Wednesdays since 1992, and on Tuesdays before this. The series is broadcast in Canada on CTV. Reruns can be seen regularly each weeknight on TNT (U.S.) and weekdays (1PM) & weeknights (11PM) on Bravo! (Canada). It can be seen in the UK with new episodes first showing on the cable and satellite channel Sky One and later on terrestrial channel Five. The early seasons are being shown on the Hallmark Channel.