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    PEOPLE Law & Order SVU
    PEOPLE Law & Order SVU
    PEOPLE Law & Order SVU
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    PEOPLE Law & Order SVU

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    It's television's longest running prime-time drama, one that from the start was willing to explore extreme, disturbing crimes and bring important attention to the victims. Now, this special edition recognizes and honors 21 record-breaking seasons of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Hear exclusive new interviews with Emmy-winning star Mariska Hargitay and the rest of the cast. Revisit your favorite alumni from shows past. Recall some of SVU's most shocking moments. Gaze upon many of the New York City locations that give the show its grit and glory. Remember the many guest stars, and even investigate the infamous, signature sound that starts each episode. Full of behind-the-scenes photos, this special edition gets you up close and on the scene of one of the most successful and powerful dramas ever produced.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMeredith Corporation
    Release dateFeb 7, 2020
    ISBN9781547849833
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      EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS!

      Inside Season 21

      LAW & ORDER: SVU’S RECORD-BREAKING YEAR FEATURES SOME NEW FACES—AND, FOR STAR MARISKA HARGITAY, NEW DUTIES BEHIND THE CAMERA

      SHOT CALLER Star Mariska Hargitay (helming season 21’s She Paints for Vengeance) first tried her hand at directing in SVU’s season 15 episode Criminal Stories.

      CHANGING PLACES Popular NYPD Deputy Chief Dodds (Peter Gallagher) announced his move to Staten Island in the season 21 premiere. In real life Gallagher (shooting with Ice-T, Kelli Giddish and Hargitay on Lexington Avenue) is moving on to NBC’s comedy Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.

      IN WITH THE NEW Stepping up to take Dodds’s place is Deputy Chief Christian Garland (Demore Barnes, with Hargitay). His order that cops undergo therapy isn’t eagerly embraced.

      STREET GUY Newly named an ADA, Sonny Carisi (Peter Scanavino) still goes strong on a bust in Chinatown.

      I THINK HE REALLY SEES THE WORLD IN THIS KIND OF BINARY WAY OF GOOD AND BAD. HE WANTS TO SEE IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH

      —PETER SCANAVINO ON SONNY CARISI

      MASCOT The glass-encased stuffed chipmunk on the desk of Detective Rollins (Kelli Giddish) is an inside joke with the actor’s family, whose garden in Georgia is plagued by the rodents. It makes me laugh, Giddish says.

      ROOKIE Newcomer cop Kat Tamin (Jamie Gray Hyder, on-set with Ice-T) made her debut in the season 21 premiere. When she won the part, she tells People, I was just ecstatic.

      CHILLING On-air tensions between Scanavino’s Carisi and Hargitay’s Benson melt between takes.

      ALL YOU DO IS JUST SIT BACK AND LET THE GREAT WRITING COME IN, AND YOU GET TO PLAY WITH IT. IT’S A LOT OF FUN

      — KELLI GIDDISH

      HE’S SUCH A LITTLE WORKER BEE, THIS KID. HE’S SO AMAZING. I THINK THERE’S NOTHING HE CAN’T DO

      —HARGITAY ON RYAN BUGGLE, 10, WHO PLAYS HER SON

      NEXT STEPS Dancing is my favorite thing, so I wrote a script, Ryan Buggle (Noah Benson) told Dance Magazine. His suggestions resulted in a story arc in which Noah forsakes baseball for ballet.

      IN TIGHT We’re family, says Hargitay. Here, the actors prepare to shoot a baptism scene with Fin, Rollins and her newborn Billie and older daughter Jesse (played by Charlotte and Vivian Cabell).

      OUTER LIMITS In We Dream of Machine Elves, the F/X department digitally enhanced figures seen by victims of a sex-and-drugs cult.

      REALITY TV It’s not ripping from headlines, says showrunner Warren Leight (left, with Hargitay and guest Ian McShane as a movie mogul in the season premiere). We’re ripping from life.

      SHOWDOWN An episode apparently inspired by allegations against the late financier Jeffrey Epstein ended in a cliff-hanger.

      ONE OF THE GANG SVU newbie Hyder (playing Kat Tamin in Counselor, It’s Chinatown) has been named a full cast member.

      IN COMMAND Ice-T, Giddish, Hargitay and Scanavino confer on a case that involves a closeted celebrity who alleges he’s the victim of a sexual assault.

      I WANTED HER TO MOVE UP IN RANK BECAUSE SHE HAD NOAH TO THINK ABOUT

      —MARISKA HARGITAY ON BENSON’S PROMOTION

      The Making of a Smash Hit

      WITH GRIPPING STORYTELLING AND A CAPTIVATING CAST, LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT HAS CRACKED THE CASE OF PRIME-TIME LONGEVITY

      IN THE BEGINNING The original SVU cast (from left): Dean Winters, Dann Florek, Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Michelle Hurd and Richard Belzer.

      IT’S A HOLLYWOOD ADAGE that sex sells. But what about sex crimes? Did America have an appetite for watching heinous offenses play out in prime time? In 1999, television producer Dick Wolf was determined to find out. The New York native was eager to expand his empire at NBC, where his police-legal hybrid drama Law & Order was thriving as it entered its 10th season on the air. Inspired by the so-called Preppy Murder case of Robert Chambers, which had dominated New York City tabloids in the late 1980s, Wolf devised a spinoff that would feature a team of NYPD detectives focused on solving sex crimes. "SVU was ahead of its time, as sexual violence has become one of the most important topics of conversation today," Wolf tells People. He wanted to go deeper into the psychology of such crimes and saw an opportunity to expand the Law & Order brand into a universe of characters that could appear on the two shows, with real and evolving interpersonal connections.

      NBC executives balked

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