Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
American police procedural crime drama television series
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| May 15 2025 | Kelli Giddish was announced to return as a series regular for the twenty-seventh season. |
| May 2025 | NBC renewed the series for its twenty-seventh season, with Michele Fazekas becoming the first woman showrunner for Special Victims Unit. |
| May 2025 | Series was renewed for a 27th season. |
| May 6 2025 | Juliana Aidén Martinez and Octavio Pisano were announced to depart following the conclusion of the twenty-sixth season. |
| 2024 | Selected seasons of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit returned to Netflix in multiple regions including the UK, Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America. |
| 2024 | Rollins and Carisi get married in mid-season 24. |
| August 7 2024 | Juliana Aidén Martinez was added as a series regular to portray newcomer Kate Silva ahead of the season premiere. |
| July 22 2024 | Kevin Kane was reported to be promoted to a series regular for season 26. |
| March 21 2024 | NBC announced the renewal of Law & Order: SVU for its 26th season, which premiered on October 3, 2024. |
| January 18 2024 | The 25th season of the series premiered. |
| January 18 2024 | The 25th season of Law & Order: SVU premiered. |
| 2023 | In the season 23 premiere, Rollins and Carisi are confirmed to be dating. |
| November 28 2023 | Kelli Giddish was announced to return for the season 25 premiere episode. |
| May 19 2023 | Molly Burnett announced her departure at the end of the show's twenty-fourth season. |
| 2022 | Kat Tamin is promoted to Detective, with Tutuola and Benson celebrating her achievement. |
| 2022 | In the season 22 finale, Rollins and Carisi share a kiss, marking the beginning of their romantic relationship. |
| August 24 2022 | Kelli Giddish announced her departure from the series during the first half of season 24. |
| May 3 2022 | Warren Leight announced he would not be returning for the twenty-fourth season. |
| 2021 | Tamin is promoted to Detective and celebrates the promotion with Tutuola and Sergeant Baker. |
| 2021 | After being shot and nearly dying, Tamin decides to resign from SVU, recognizing the job is too challenging for her. |
| September 2021 | Jamie Gray Hyder announces her departure from the show after the two-hour premiere of season 23. |
| September 23 2021 | The 23rd season premiered, during which the show aired its milestone 500th episode. |
| February 4 2021 | Series premiere confirmed for April 1, 2021, in a two-hour crossover event. |
| February 2 2021 | Tamara Taylor cast in an undisclosed role. |
| January 27 2021 | Dylan McDermott announced as joining the cast in an unspecified role. |
| 2020 | Detective Katriona Tamin is introduced in the Season 21 premiere 'I'm Going to Make You a Star', initially working with SVU while coming from the NYPD Vice Unit. |
| 2020 | Tamin transfers to Benson's squad as a detective-in-training, placed under the supervision of Fin and Rollins. |
| December 9 2020 | Ilene Chaiken joins as the new showrunner after signing an overall deal with Universal Television. |
| October 2 2020 | Matt Olmstead steps down as showrunner, with no immediate replacement announced. |
| June 16 2020 | NBC announces Organized Crime as the only new show on its fall schedule, originally slated for Thursdays at 10/9c, but later delayed to 2021. |
| June 2 2020 | Series officially named Law & Order: Organized Crime, and writer Craig Gore was fired. |
| March 31 2020 | NBC orders an untitled spin-off series featuring Christopher Meloni's return as Elliot Stabler, with an initial order of 13 episodes. |
| September 2019 | After the premiere of its 21st season, Law & Order: SVU became the longest-running primetime live-action series on American television. |
| April 22 2019 | Warren Leight was announced to return as showrunner for the twenty-first season. |
| March 2019 | The show was renewed for season 21, making it the longest-running primetime U.S. live-action series in television history. |
| March 29 2019 | Philip Winchester announced his departure from the show before season 21. |
| February 7 2018 | Raúl Esparza leaves the series 'Law & Order: SVU' after six seasons, with his character Rafael Barba departing in the episode 'The Undiscovered Country', which involves a controversial mercy killing case where Barba disconnects life support for a severely handicapped baby and is subsequently charged with murder. |
| 2017 | Elliot Stabler comes out of retirement and begins working as an international liaison for the NYPD, focusing on taking down organized crime. |
| May 25 2017 | Michael S. Chernuchin was announced as the showrunner for season nineteen, after the cancellation of Chicago Justice. |
| March 10 2016 | Rick Eid was announced as the new showrunner, replacing Warren Leight starting in season 18. |
| October 2015 | Actress Kelli Giddish, who portrays Amanda Rollins, gives birth to a boy in real life. |
| May 20 2015 | Danny Pino was revealed to be leaving the cast after the season 16 finale 'Surrendering Noah'. |
| March 2015 | Warren Leight signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Television, allowing him to work on SVU for one more season (its seventeenth). |
| February 2015 | Declan Murphy returns to New York during Super Bowl weekend to infiltrate a sex trafficking ring and becomes the father of Rollins' first child, Jesse. |
| 2014 | Munch is temporarily reassigned to the Cold Case Unit after solving a decade-old child abduction case in the episode 'Manhattan Vigil'. |
| 2014 | Noah Porter-Benson first appears as a character in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, portrayed by multiple child actors including Skylar and Bradley Dubow, Jack Nawada-Braunwart, and Ryan Buggle. |
| 2014 | Munch files his retirement papers after the events in the episode 'American Tragedy', formally leaving the SVU in the episode 'Wonderland Story'. |
| 2012 | Executive producer Neal Baer left the show as showrunner after eleven years (seasons 2-12), and was replaced by Warren Leight. |
| 2012 | Novak returns to SVU as a temporary ADA to prosecute a rape case, facing off against Law & Order: LA Deputy District Attorney Jonah Dekker. |
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