The organized crime task force in the Law & Order universe has worked its last case.
NBCUniversal has canceled Law & Order: Organized Crime after five seasons. The series, in which Christopher Meloni reprised his SVU character, Elliot Stabler, in a different branch of the NYPD, ran for four seasons on NBC before becoming a Peacock original in its fifth and now final season.
The fifth season premiered almost exactly a year ago (April 17, 2025) and ran for 10 episodes; it had an encore run on NBC last fall.
Organized Crime was more serialized than the rest of the Law & Order franchise’s famously close-ended episodic storytelling. The series followed Stabler as he worked on an organized crime task force, with cases stretching over multiple-episode arcs. Danielle Moné Truitt, Ainsley Seiger, Rick Gonzalez and Dean Norris also starred in season five.
Behind the scenes, the series had as many showrunners — five — as it did seasons. Had Organized Crime been renewed, another change was in the offing.
With Organized Crime’s cancellation, the L&O franchise in the United States now consists of its two longest-running series, the “mothership” Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU. The two shows are in their 25th and 27th seasons, with the former having been revived in 2022 after 12 years off the air. NBC has yet to say whether the two series will return for the 2026-27 season.
Universal Television and Wolf Entertainment produce L&O: Organized Crime. The executive producers for season five were Dick Wolf, Matt Olmstead (episodes 507-510), John Shiban, Mike Slovis, Meloni, Peter Jankowski and Tim Walsh (episode 510).
Meloni, meanwhile, is next set to star in Dan Fogelman’s NFL drama The Land at Hulu.
Deadline first reported the show’s cancellation.
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