NBC renews Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

If you can't get enough of the long-running procedural series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, you will be in good hands at NBC for the next three years. The Peacock channel has caught up with the Gunsmoke as the longest-running live-action series in America. With the 21st season that started last fall, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is now the longest running series in America. And for the time being it will stay that way because the series has been renewed with three seasons. There will certainly be a season 22, 23 and 24, which means that the series will be on show until at least 2022-2023.
The legal police series has now received 474 episodes, while the western Gunsmoke has had 635 with twenty seasons. The number of episodes will probably not be caught up. The expectation is that the new seasons will also get between 20 and 25 episodes.

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The ratings are declining, but not enough to send the series into retirement. The innovation has everything to do with a five-year deal that Dick Wolf made with Universal Television. Wolf said: "I am grateful and delighted that Universal will remain our home for the next five years. The deal complements the recently concluded deal with Peacock to make Chicago and R&D important brands."