NBC Renews ‘Chicago’ Shows, Two ‘Law & Order’ Series

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Fate of ‘Organized Crime’ to be determined

Chicago Fire
(Image credit: Adrian S. Burroughs Jr./NBC)

NBC has renewed Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU for the 2024-2025 season. 

The fate of Law & Order: Organized Crime is “still in discussion,” the network said. 

All five shows are produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Wolf Entertainment.

Dick Wolf is behind Wolf Entertainment. 

Chicago Med, in season nine, is averaging 10.5 million viewers (L+35) this season, NBC said. Chicago Fire, in season 12, is averaging 12.6 million viewers and Chicago P.D., in season 11, is averaging 12.0 million. 

Law & Order: SVU, in season 25, is averaging 11.2 million viewers and In season 23, Law & Order is tallying 7.7 million. 

Law & Order returned in 2022, 12 years after its cancellation in 2010. 

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.