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Post by marion on Nov 16, 2019 13:22:28 GMT
Series 18 starts in Thursday 21 November at 9.00 in 5USA, replacing Chicago PD.
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Post by yankee on Nov 16, 2019 16:27:48 GMT
I'm surprised it's still on. But it's the last remaining dinosaur of the L&O franchise so I reckon NBC is reluctant.
I think my favorite was L&O Criminal Intent.
I liked the juxtaposition of one week being Vincent D'Onofrio as the deeply intelligent (Sherlock Holmes-like), quirky (Adrian Monk-like), Detective Bobby Green one week, then hothead, tough talking, slap a criminal around Detective Mike Logan the next week.
The Jeff Goldblum character who came in years later was pretty entertaining as well if somewhat a little over the top quirky. But then Goldblum always seems to play characters who are over the top quirky.
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Post by marion on Nov 16, 2019 17:59:21 GMT
Yankee, are all these shows shot in the city they purport to be in? Do you have lots of PD, Fire and Med actors running round Chicago? I remember being surprised when I read that one of the CSI shows was in fact filmed in Los Angeles rather than either New York or Miami.
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Post by yankee on Nov 16, 2019 19:05:40 GMT
That is a terrific question Marion.
They shoot "some" stuff in the cities they are set. "Establishing shots" I think they call them.
So whenever they need a shot of the cops outside in front of landmark buildings, in Central Park in Manhattan, walking along Lake Michigan in Chicago or to have it snowing etc. They film in Chicago or New York or Miami etc. About 25% of actual filming is done on location.
Then the other 75% is filmed in Los Angeles at the studio. Anything set in the police station. Court rooms etc.
There was a big blunder by one of the local news stations last year. Early on a Sunday morning they were reporting that a small airplane had crash landed on Lake Shore Drive and that the road was shut down with fire brigade and police all over the scene. They were flying their "news chopper" helicopter overhead showing all the breaking drama.
Turns out Chicago Fire was filming a scene abouy a plane crash and had permission from the city to close down a section of LSD!
My son in law is an aspiring actor (dreamer) and always attends open casting calls for Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Chicago PD. And he has actually appeared in over 30 episodes.
He never has had a speaking part but hes been in background crowd scenes, shown in the background getting out of a cab, or in a chair in the hospital waiting room, jogging past while detectives have a discussion. Thst sort of thing.
Extras get paid just under $200 for an 8 hour day.
And they get lunch.
He said on average during an 8 hour day they may shoot 20 or 30 short scenes that might appear in a dozen different episodes.
Then they just splice it all together with the LA footage later in editing.
Its one reason a lot of characters have signature haircuts because for continuity they have to make sure they always look the same even though different scenes from the same episode may have been shot 6 months apart!
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Post by marion on Nov 17, 2019 13:29:21 GMT
Thanks, Yankee. Interesting stuff.
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Post by yankee on Nov 17, 2019 14:25:55 GMT
My pleasure!
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Post by pandaeyes on Nov 17, 2019 14:52:17 GMT
My favourite is Criminal Intent too, though I am getting into SVU now.
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Post by yankee on Nov 17, 2019 23:48:37 GMT
I liked the early seasons of SVU. Chris Meloni and his slow burn when dealing especially with paedophiles always had me wishing he beat them to a pulp.
But with SVU the plots are always so dark - as I guess makes sense considering that unit by design gets the most depressing cases to solve.
'Criminal Intent' unit got the high profile, front page of the newspaper cases.
Trivia: you may already be aware but if you weren't, Mariska Hartigay is the daughter of actress Jayne Mansfield and Mariska, a little girl at the time, was in the backseat of the car asleep when it crashed killing (and beheading) her mom.
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Post by pandaeyes on Nov 18, 2019 11:16:36 GMT
I remember Jayne Mansfield, she was similar to Marilyn Monroe. What an awful thing to happen to her, especially with her daughter in the car. No I did not know she was Mariska's mother. Thank you for that, yankee.
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Post by marion on Mar 27, 2020 16:06:24 GMT
I was watching last night's episode and had just taken a mouthful of coffee when the church going rapist said "it wasn't rape, it was curative intercourse" as the girl was homosexual. Cue a snort of coffee going everywhere. Well I had never heard of this and wondered if it was a thing. And it is, but what made me laugh was one of the top links which began "I was watching an episode of Law & Order SVU last night....". Of course Liv wasn't having any truck with that nonsense.
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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Apr 2, 2020 8:22:16 GMT
The nineteenth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will premiere on 5USA on Thursday April 16th at 9pm.
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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Sept 17, 2020 7:56:01 GMT
The twentieth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will premiere on 5USA on Thursday October 1st at 9pm.
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Post by yankee on Sept 22, 2020 16:25:23 GMT
Goodness, this series has been on so long that Elliot's daughters who were wee kids in the early seasons could be in their mid-late 20s and be detectives in the SVU squad.
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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Sept 22, 2020 16:32:40 GMT
Am I right in thinking that this has now surpassed the original L&O in series length?
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Post by marion on Sept 22, 2020 16:41:18 GMT
Did I see somewhere that Stabler is getting his own show in this franchise?
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