LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT Promotes Demore Barnes

Deputy Chief Garland is sticking around on LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: Demore Barnes has been bumped up to series regular for the upcoming season 22 of the NBC drama, Give Me My Remote has learned.

Barnes joined the long-running procedural in 2019, in a recurring capacity, in the wake of Peter Gallagher’s exit as Chief Dodds, as Captain Benson’s (Mariska Hargitay) new boss. Though he only appeared in six episodes of the COVID-shortened season, one of the final installments of the year—“Garland’s Baptism by Fire”—dove deeper into his adjustment into the unit and his own backstory.

The full-time addition of Chief Garland is the second in as many years for the NBC procedural, after Jamie Gray Hyder, who plays Officer Kat Azar Tamin, was made a series regular in season 21.

In addition to SVU, Barnes also has his final year of AMERICAN GODS ahead. He previously did arcs on TITANS, 12 MONKEYS, THE FLASH, THE UNIT, and SUPERNATURAL.

22 cookies and counting…#ChiefGarland #SVU22#NYC @nbcsvu pic.twitter.com/EVROkp0QqT

— Demore (@DemoreBarnes) September 28, 2020

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT, Season Premiere, Thursday, November 12, 9/8c, NBC

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