Law & Order: SVU is officially coming out with a new spinoff! Creator and executive producer, Dick Wolf and former Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Criminal Intent executive producer have teamed up to create Law & Order: Hate Crimes.
According to NBC, “Law & Order: Hate Crimes is set in New York City, where crimes motivated by discrimination are vigorously investigated by an elite, specially trained team of investigators. Going behind the headlines and viral videos, these diverse, dedicated and passionate detectives will stop at nothing to bring these criminals to justice.”
Dick Wolf says, “As with all of my crime shows, I want to depict what’s really going on in our cities and shine a light on the wide-ranging victims and show that justice can prevail”. “Twenty years ago when SVU began, very few people felt comfortable coming forward and reporting these crimes, but when you bring the stories into people’s living rooms – with characters as empathetic as Olivia Benson – a real dialogue can begin. That’s what I hope we can do with this new show in a world where hate crimes have reached an egregious level.”
Hate Crimes does not have a premiere date as of yet but Law & Order: SVU, starring Mariska Hargitay, Kelli Giddish, Ice-T, Peter Scanavino and Philip Winchester, will premiere Thursday, Sept. 27 at 9 p.m. on NBC.
