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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: Michele Fazekas Set as Potential Season 27 Showrunner

April 1, 2025 by  

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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT is finally poised to have a female showrunner: Michele Fazekas, who worked on the series from 2002 through 2006, is returning to the NBC drama to run a potential season 27, sources have confirmed to Give Me My Remote. (The long-running series has not yet officially been renewed.)

Fazekas, who co-wrote 19 episodes of the drama during her original tenure, has been open about the show’s importance on her subsequent career. (Since then, she’s co-created REAPER, AGENT CARTER, EMERGENCE, plus showrunTHE BOYS spinoff GEN V.)

“I feel like every writer should work on a LAW & ORDER,” she told Give Me My Remote in 2019, praising former showrunner Neal Baer for allowing the team to produce their own episodes. “It is such a great lesson in structuring stories. When you have a show that has multiple storylines, you can cut away from and jump to other storylines. In some ways, it’s a lot easier to write than when you’re on a LAW & ORDER show, you have the one case, and nothing to cut away to. And you have to design these airtight, very complicated stories. The audience is very smart; they’re going to figure stuff out. So you have to [be like,] how can we make it so that they think they figured it out, but they haven’t? How can you surprise them? And how can you get an hour-long episode that people aren’t going to see coming a mile away? So I thought that that was such a great thing for any writer just how to structure story.”

“The nice thing is, because it’s a LAW & ORDER show, by the time we came onto the show you weren’t going home with the cops, really. Or you very rarely did,” she continued. “You didn’t have a sort of soap aspect of it. But you still felt like you knew these characters, and you’re learning these characters, through how they are reacting to whatever case they’re on. And I always like where you have cases, and then you put your characters on different sides of the issue and have them all sort of hashing out their opinions. And, in a great way, you don’t make anybody dumb, you don’t make anybody wrong. Everybody has their opinion. So I always thought that was a great way to get at character without having to go home with them. I still felt like you knew Benson and you knew Stabler and you didn’t have to know who they were dating, or whatever, to really feel like you understood who these characters were.”

Fazekas return to the series also marks the end of current showrunner David Graziano’s tenure.

Deadline was first to report Fazekas’ hiring.

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT, Thursdays, 9/8c, NBC

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