Law & Order will be blocked by NBC after 20 years

Law & Order is a very popular New York police drama.But 20 years later,it will be disappeared .

When it was first broadcast in 1990, New York’s annual murder rate peaked at 2,245. Last year the city recorded 466 — the lowest since records began half a century ago. Unfortunately for Law & Order, the hyper-realistic New York police drama based on plots “ripped from the headlines”, the viewing figures suffered a similar decline.

Even as the show became a global franchise, its core US audience fell from 19 million to about 7.3 million. Now the verdict is in: the original New York version has been cancelled after a record-equalling 20 seasons. It is to be replaced by one set on the West Coast called Law & Order: Los Angeles, quickly nicknamed Lola.

The decision was taken by NBC television despite the stated ambition of Dick Wolf, the producer, to break the record for a US TV series set by Gunsmoke, a cowboy drama that ran from 1955 to 1975.

The 456th and final episode of Law & Order will air in America on May 24, with a guest appearance by Lindsey Vonn, an Olympic gold-medal skier.