Wolf Entertainment Finalizing Deal to Bring Rick Gonzalez’s “Law & Order: Organized Crime” Exclusively to Peacock for Season 5

Rick Gonzalez will likely still be maintaining the law and order

The NBC drama Law & Order: Organized Crime, starring the 44-year-old Puerto Rican and Dominican American actor, could be heading to Peacock.

Rick GonzalezWolf Entertainment is finalizing a deal for a 10-episode Season 5 renewal, per Deadline.com.

The new season would stream exclusively on the platform.

The move gives the NBCUniversal streamer an original Dick Wolf drama series to go with the Wolf library and next-day runs of the company’s remaining NBC series Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Chicago MedLaw & Order and Law & Order: SVUwhich are among the platform’s most viewed titles.

Law & Order: Organized Crime, which follows SVU‘s Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) in his return to the NYPD to work on the Organized Crime Task Force, has been an outlier, a departure from the Dick Wolf procedural brand with its darker and serialized storytelling. Possibly as a result, the series has performed below the five other Wolf dramas in linear ratings on NBC while doing well on Peacock.

This is the second series in the Law & Order franchise to transition to another platform after starting on NBC. L&O: Criminal Intent ran on USA Network for four additional seasons after the initial six on NBC.

Series that have enjoyed successful multi-season second chapters as streaming originals following respectable initial broadcast runs include Lucifer (Fox/Netflix) and The Mindy Project (Fox/Hulu).

Organized Crime — whose first four seasons consisted of eight episodes (S1), 22 (S2-3) and 13 (S4) — is executive produced by Wolf, showrunner John Shiban, Paul Cabbad, Meloni, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski.

The cast also includes Danielle Moné Truitt, Ainsley Seiger and Gonzalez. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, produces in association with Wolf Entertainment.

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