OK...it has only been 20 years, but it has felt like 100. It certainly has aired enough on every channel for 24/7 the last 20 years that it feels like it has been 100. NBC announced this week that the show has been canceled. Not really though. In its place, NBC is ordering a new drama, “Law & Order: Los Angeles,” moving the franchise to a place where there are presumably more murders to investigate.
More importantly, with the cancellation of this series comes the loss of thousands of jobs. Katherine Oliver, the commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting, said that every year the show provided jobs to about 4,000 people, including one-day acting roles. Its spending totaled about $79 million annually, she said, including things like coffee and bagels, weight loss products, boom microphones and duct tape. During its 20-year run, that impact amounted to as much as $1 billion or more, she said.
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