Law & Order: SVU in the Media

[WendyCR72]

Okay, let's step back. Disagreeing is fine, but going after posters is a no go.

Thank you.

[txhorns79]

Guys, it's fine to comment on the article.  It's not fine to use the forum to speculate as to Mariska's motivations for coming forward.  Please lets also keep the conversations cordial.

[Snazzy Daisy]

Mariska Hargitay and Ice-T reflect on 25 years of Law & Order: SVU

 

Mariska Hargitay and Ice-T Review 'Law & Order: SVU' Scenes | Entertainment Weekly

I miss Captain Cragen & Detective Munch... 😢

[preeya]

FOUND THIS ARTICLE THIS MORNING:

https://bityl.co/O5ba

[Xeliou66]

11 minutes ago, preeya said:

FOUND THIS ARTICLE THIS MORNING:

https://bityl.co/O5ba

Ugh, as if they haven’t shoved everything about St Olivia down our throats already, they are giving her even more angst and screentime to make over dramatic faces and play the savior. Blah. Her crap has dragged the show into the gutter, which is a shame because if they focused less on trying to make Benson look like a saint and making everything revolve around her, and more on the cases, and gave the others some more screen time, the show could be good.

I like the squad of detectives SVU has now, Fin/Bruno have great chemistry and are really enjoyable to watch, and I like Velasco as well. They could use another detective or two, not sure where Churlish went, and it’s bizarre the IAB Captain in making a lateral move to work with SVU, but I like this squad of detectives, and of course Carisi is good, I hope to see him in court more soon. But the non Benson cast doesn’t get much to do, while Benson is more annoying than ever.

[gesundheit]

Well this should be... bizarre! 

Rockefeller Center will turn into an SVU-immersive experience

The area will temporarily be renamed "Olivia Benson Plaza."

[TakomaSnark]

1 hour ago, gesundheit said:

Well this should be... bizarre! 

Rockefeller Center will turn into an SVU-immersive experience

The area will temporarily be renamed "Olivia Benson Plaza."

Where's the eyeroll reaction emoji???????

[wknt3]

2 hours ago, gesundheit said:

Well this should be... bizarre! 

Rockefeller Center will turn into an SVU-immersive experience

The area will temporarily be renamed "Olivia Benson Plaza."

 

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The unofficial area renaming is part of a wider activation that will last two days, March 14 and March 15 from 10am to 6pm, and will include complimentary coffee and tea beverages at the Benson & Co. Coffee truck

Let me guess - the Iced-Tea will be really good, and the Peter Scone-ivino will look great, but you only get tiny servings because they insist that what you really want is more of the Captain Liv Flat White...
 

Edited February 29 by wknt3

[illdoc]

Back again for another episode: https://tvline.com/casting-news/kelli-giddish-returns-law-and-order-svu-season-25-amanda-rollins-1235188570/

[Xeliou66]

SVU has been renewed for season 26. The Mothership was renewed for season 24 as well. OC hasn’t been renewed yet, it’s still being discussed.

[Sake614]

So as if Mariska’s ego wasn’t big enough, the NY MTA just entered a licensing deal with Wolf to sell an SVU metrocard.

 

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/the-mta-is-releasing-a-limited-edition-law-order-svu-metrocard-040424

[wknt3]

2 hours ago, Sake614 said:

So as if Mariska’s ego wasn’t big enough, the NY MTA just entered a licensing deal with Wolf to sell an SVU metrocard.

 

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/the-mta-is-releasing-a-limited-edition-law-order-svu-metrocard-040424

Wow. I guess we know that whatever other failings the writing may have, trading positive portrayals for sponsorship isn't one of them. I mean this is only slightly less surprising than finding out one of the local colleges is rebranding as Hudson University for a week...

Edited April 6 by wknt3
ducking autocorrect

[dttruman]

On 4/6/2024 at 5:18 PM, wknt3 said:

So as if Mariska’s ego wasn’t big enough, the NY MTA just entered a licensing deal with Wolf to sell an SVU metrocard.

Hargitay is going to want a major cut of the card, and the card will be as reliable as the quality of each episode, which will be hit and miss most of the time.

[pezgirl7]

I know a lot of people don’t like MH, but I thought this was sweet:

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While filming one of the final episodes of season 25 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in New York City on April 10, Hargitay, 60, was approached by a little girl who believed her to be a real police officer based on the badge she wore as part of her character’s outfit.

A witness tells PEOPLE that the little girl had been separated from her mother in the Anne Loftus Playground in Fort Tryon Park and enlisted Hargitay for help. The actress obliged, halting production for 20 minutes to help the child locate her mother and to console them both.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mariska-hargitay-dressed-her-svu-154056441.html

[Sake614]

Mariska was featured in Greek Vogue with an in-depth article and complete fashion spread. While the spread looks good, I don’t understand her appeal? She also is on the cover of Variety. 

[slowpoked]

I just read the article. She does confirm Kelli’s departure was out of her hands:

 

But Wolf still has the final call. Which means that Hargitay couldn’t stop him from writing Kelli Giddish off the show at the end of Season 24, after she’d portrayed Det. Rollins for 12 years. “Kelli is my favorite actor to work with,” Hargitay says. “Kelli is my heart. It’s a sore subject. I have a lot of say on the show, but I didn’t have enough there.”

Hargitay says she fought to keep Giddish and is trying to get her back next season. “I don’t like not being listened to, especially when I’m right,” she says. “That relationship was one of the most powerful relationships in television because you saw these two badass women, so flawed and so there for each other.”

[Xeliou66]

5 minutes ago, slowpoked said:

I just read the article. She does confirm Kelli’s departure was out of her hands:

 

But Wolf still has the final call. Which means that Hargitay couldn’t stop him from writing Kelli Giddish off the show at the end of Season 24, after she’d portrayed Det. Rollins for 12 years. “Kelli is my favorite actor to work with,” Hargitay says. “Kelli is my heart. It’s a sore subject. I have a lot of say on the show, but I didn’t have enough there.”

Hargitay says she fought to keep Giddish and is trying to get her back next season. “I don’t like not being listened to, especially when I’m right,” she says. “That relationship was one of the most powerful relationships in television because you saw these two badass women, so flawed and so there for each other.”

Interesting, I had a feeling that Mariska didn’t want Kelli Giddish to leave, Mariska seemed to push for more Benson/Rollins scenes - I always figured it was a cost cutting move by Dick Wolf and network executives. It will be interesting to see if she comes back to SVU, I doubt she will given how cheap the show is, I mean they won’t even bump Bruno up to opening credits even though he’s in almost every episode. 

[wknt3]

2 hours ago, slowpoked said:

I just read the article. She does confirm Kelli’s departure was out of her hands:

 

But Wolf still has the final call. Which means that Hargitay couldn’t stop him from writing Kelli Giddish off the show at the end of Season 24, after she’d portrayed Det. Rollins for 12 years. “Kelli is my favorite actor to work with,” Hargitay says. “Kelli is my heart. It’s a sore subject. I have a lot of say on the show, but I didn’t have enough there.”

Hargitay says she fought to keep Giddish and is trying to get her back next season. “I don’t like not being listened to, especially when I’m right,” she says. “That relationship was one of the most powerful relationships in television because you saw these two badass women, so flawed and so there for each other.”

 

2 hours ago, Xeliou66 said:

Interesting, I had a feeling that Mariska didn’t want Kelli Giddish to leave, Mariska seemed to push for more Benson/Rollins scenes - I always figured it was a cost cutting move by Dick Wolf and network executives. It will be interesting to see if she comes back to SVU, I doubt she will given how cheap the show is, I mean they won’t even bump Bruno up to opening credits even though he’s in almost every episode. 

I thought we pretty much always knew Mariska didn't really like it, but she wasn't willing to do what was needed to keep her - take a pay cut or do some sort of deal with NBCUniversal where she produced her own docuseries about abuse or her work with Joyful Heart so she made the same salary, but Dick Wolf didn't have to wait for the reruns to recoup his costs like every other producer in network television. And seeing as how Mariska has shown no inclination to put her money where her mouth is and there really is much they can do to earn more money from the network run short of some sort of truly horrendous product placement ("I think we found our suspect Captain. Her driver for the CarshareEats delivery we found outside her apartment was fired from Door Dash becuase their background check found he was on the registry. Another Carshare Eats perv? That's why I stick with HelloFresh. The foods a lot healthier and it's safer too!") or making streaming illegal on Thursdays, I don't see that changing. And it was actually the right move creatively - as bad as the show is today it would be worse if we had Rollins instead of Bruno etc. I mean I don't want to even think about what the Maddie arc would have been like...