Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Also known as Law & Order: SVU, SVU, Special Victims Unit, Law and Order: SVU, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
American police procedural crime drama television series
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★ 7.9In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
- Aired
- 1999–2026
- Seasons
- 27 · 594 episodes
- Status
- Returning Series
- Created by
- Dick Wolf
- Network
- NBC
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Key facts
- Also known as
- Law & Order: SVU SVU
- Genre
- Police procedural Crime drama Legal drama Mystery Thriller
- Created by
- Dick Wolf
- Showrunners
- Robert Palm David J. Burke Neal Baer Warren Leight Rick Eid Michael S. Chernuchin David Graziano Michele Fazekas
Article
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often shortened to Law & Order: SVU or SVU) is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Dick Wolf for NBC. The first spin-off of Law & Order, expanding it into the Law & Order franchise, it originally starred Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler (until Meloni left the series in 2011 after 12 seasons) and Mariska Hargitay as Detective (now promoted to Captain) Olivia Benson remaining the longest starring character in the series. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit follows the detectives of the Special Victims Unit as they investigate and prosecute sex-based crimes. Some of the episodes are loosely based on real crimes that have received media attention.
The series, produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, premiered on September 20, 1999. The series has received 108 award nominations, winning 59 awards. Hargitay was the first and only regular cast member on any Law & Order series to win an Emmy Award when she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2006.
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