The original series ended its 12-season run in May 2010 (and was revived in 2022), but Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (or simply SVU) has remained the most successful follow-up, due in part to the chemistry between Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson and Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler.Īfter leaving in 2011, Meloni returned to the role in 2021 with the premiere of the Stabler-centric Law & Order spinoff, Law & Order: Organized Crime. Law & Order‘s tales of New York City Police Department detectives investigating heinous crimes has spanned six spinoffs, 33 years, and is still going strong.
