Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an
American
police procedural
TV series, which premiered on
September 30, 2001. The series is about the
Major Case Squad in a fictional version of
the New York City Police Department set in New York City's
One Police Plaza and is the second
spin-off of the long-running
crime drama Law
& Order. The show currently stars
Vincent D'Onofrio,
Kathryn Erbe,
Jeff
Goldblum and
Eric Bogosian.
Goldblum joined the cast for the 2009 season, replacing
Chris Noth. Season 9 will have major changes with
charter members D'Onofrio and Erbe exiting the USA Network series
and Jeff Goldblum taking over full-time. D'Onofrio, Erbe and
Bogosian will say goodbye in a two-hour premiere to start the ninth
season, which is scheduled for March 2010.
The first six seasons of the show aired on
NBC.
Since October 4, 2007, new episodes of
Criminal Intent
have aired on
NBC Universal-owned
USA Network and rerun on NBC. In
addition, all episodes continue to be aired on USA and other NBC
platforms such as
Bravo
and
Sleuth, as well as on
MyNetworkTV and in
broadcast syndication. Recently,
WGN America began airing 5th season
episodes of
CI on Saturday afternoons from 12PM to 4PM
(Eastern).
As with all American members of the
Law & Order
franchise, the opening is narrated by
Steven Zirnkilton.
Premise
Criminal Intent follows a distinct division of the
New York City Police
Department: the "Major Case Squad". The Major Case Squad
investigates high-profile cases (in most cases
murder, just like the regular
Law & Order in this sense), such as
those involving
VIPs,
local government officials and employees, the financial industry,
and the art world; though sometimes the cases are similar to the
cases from the original
Law & Order show as well.
Unlike the other shows in the
Law & Order
franchise, as of Season 5
Criminal Intent episodes
typically alternate between two teams of detectives: Team A
episodes chronicle the cases of
Robert
Goren and
Alexandra Eames, while
team B episodes follow the exploits of
Zach
Nichols and
Megan Wheeler.
Originally, team B followed
Mike Logan and his partners,
Carolyn Barek,
Megan Wheeler, and
Nola Falacci.
The series also gives significant attention to the actions and
motives of the criminals, rather than focusing exclusively on the
police and prosecution, and the information they have, as in the
other
Law & Order series. A feature of each
Criminal Intent episode is that the
cold open always involves a series of cut-scenes
that show events from the suspects' and victims' lives, leading up
to the crime. Clues to the crime's eventual solution can often be
found in this teaser sequence.
Criminal Intent episodes do
not usually contain trials. Unlike other
Law & Order
series, most
Criminal Intent episodes end in confessions
rather than plea bargains or verdicts.
For the first five seasons, Assistant District Attorney
Ron Carver (played by
Courtney B. Vance) worked with the detectives on their
cases. After Vance's departure,
Theresa
Randle took over as Patricia Kent, but only appeared in two
episodes at the beginning of season six. ADAs have not played a
regular role in the show since.
As with all the
Law and Order series, the
Criminal
Intent title card features an opening voiceover by
Steven Zirnkilton. This is the only one of
the whole franchise series up to now not to open with the line
In the criminal justice system...
History
Law & Order: Criminal Intent was created by
René Balcer and
Dick
Wolf in 2001. Balcer served as the show's executive producer,
showrunner, and head writer for its first five seasons. The show
dominated its original time slot on Sundays at 9:00 pm for its
first three seasons (routinely beating its competition
Alias and
The Sopranos in households and in the
18–49 demos), and was often the highest rated show of the night,
with an average audience of 15.5 million viewers.
Beginning in its fourth season, it faced stiff new competition from
ABC's night-time soap opera
Desperate Housewives, a show that
soon became the number one drama on television. Ratings for
Criminal Intent further eroded in the fifth season when
Chris Noth joined the cast in alternating episodes as Det. Logan.
Noth's episodes routinely scored much lower ratings than
D'Onofrio's. Despite stiff competition and Detective Goren's
reduced presence, the series maintained respectable ratings through
the fifth season, enough to get it renewed for a sixth season on
NBC.
Balcer left the show at the end of the fifth season, and the show
was handed off to
Warren Leight, a
longtime
Criminal Intent staffer. Under Leight's
leadership, the show acquired a new, more melodramatic tone. The
mystery aspect of the show was simplified in favor of more personal
stories involving the detectives. For example, notably Goren
endured his mother's long agony from cancer, culminating with her
death in the last episode (for Goren and Eames) of the sixth
season, "Endgame" ("Renewal" is the season finale). The show's look
and editing style also changed in an effort to attract more viewers
than the newer
CSI
franchise.
Since NBC had acquired the rights to
Sunday Night Football
for the 2006–2007 season,
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
was moved to new time slot on Tuesdays at 9:00 pm, to serve as a
lead-in to
SVU. For its first six airings, it faced
CBS's
The Unit
and baseball on Fox. The show held its own against such
competition. In late October, Fox's smash hit
House moved opposite
Law &
Order: Criminal Intent. It was hoped that the show could
maintain second position, beating the then-marginal
The
Unit but that didn't occur. The show's ratings suffered a
steep drop and regularly finished fourth in its time slot. By the
end of the sixth season,
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
saw its lowest ratings ever.
In May 2007, NBC faced a choice of renewing either
Criminal
Intent or the original
Law & Order, which had
seen a ratings increase in the last few outings of its seventeenth
season. Ultimately, because of weak ratings, NBC passed on
Criminal Intent and picked up
Law & Order.
Because new episodes of
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
were still a profit center for the NBC Universal-owned studio that
produces the series,
Criminal Intent was moved to the NBC
Universal owned
USA Network after six
seasons on NBC, because on USA Network it attracted a much larger
audience. The remaining episodes from the seventh season began
screening on June 8. The show was stopped in December 2007 due to
the
writers'
strike. In Canada
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
airs new original episodes on CTV at 10 PM Sundays.
For its move to the USA Network, the "heavier" sounding version of
the
Law & Order: CI theme used for the show's opening
credits was replaced by the version used on the short-lived
Law & Order:
Trial By Jury.
It was announced on May 22, 2008 that USA Network had renewed
Criminal Intent for an eighth season. The seventh season
was the top-rated television series on basic cable, having more
than quadrupled the audience for the 10 PM Thursday slot on
USA Network when compared to the ratings
from the previous year. Nielsen Ratings for the week of July 13,
2008 showed that
Criminal Intent was ranked sixth overall
on top 20 cable ratings, with a viewer base of 4.899 million
viewers. The network ordered 16 episodes which were originally
going to begin screening in November 2008, but the network moved
the premiere -- first to February 5, 2009, then with an expected
date of spring–summer 2009, and finally announcing the start date
as April 19. The only change in cast members from the seventh
season was
Chris Noth exiting, and
replaced by
Jeff Goldblum. At the end
of the seventh season, Leight, who left to focus on
In Treatment, was replaced by new
executive producers
Walon Green and
Robert Nathan. In December 2008,
Nathan left the show after completing two Goldblum episodes.
Law & Order co-executive producer and writer Ed
Zuckerman then picked up Nathan's assignment while continuing his
duties for the original L&O's 19th season. In April 2009,
NBC began airing
Law & Order: Criminal
Intent season 8 encores a few days after they premiered on
USA.
Hollywood Reporter
reported that the
USA Network is
currently finalizing a deal for the ninth season of
Law &
Order: Criminal Intent. Later, it was reported that D'Onofrio,
Erbe and Bogosian would be leaving the series,. Some sources have
speculated that USA Network prefers Goldblum's lighter
Monk-style contribution as it fits
better with their slate of other series.
In response to news of the impending cast changes, on September 27,
2009, dedicated fans of the series united and launched a grassroots
campaign to save departing cast members D'Onofrio, Erbe and
Bogosian. Among the more traditional methods of letters, postcards,
email and phone calls, the fans included sending jars of
marshmallow fluff by the case to express their displeasure at the
proposed change of tone for the series.
Characters
Partners A
- Det.
Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) Season 1 -
Season 9 Premiere is a quirky, extraordinarily intelligent
investigator and criminal
profiler, known for his instinct and insight. Often, Goren's
intuition, rather than solid
evidence, turns out to be the case-breaker. Each episode, Goren
typically employs his knowledge of an unusually wide range of
topics, from theoretical
physics, chemistry, and literature to history,
psychology, and multiple foreign languages. Goren once served in the Army's Criminal Investigation
Division, stationed in Germany
and South Korea
, and worked in the NYPD's Narcotics Division before
transferring to Major Case (in the first season episode "The
Insider", it is revealed that he worked on three undercover operations resulting in 27 arrests and
convictions). The Robert Goren character is very reminiscent
of Sherlock Holmes; he notices
tiny-yet-important details ignored by others, and possesses broad,
almost encyclopedic knowledge. Frequently, Goren obtains crucial
information and confessions by psychologically manipulating and
provoking suspects and their associates. Mental illness seems to run in Goren's
family: his mother suffered from schizophrenia and his biological father was a
serial killer. Recently, it has become
clear that this history, coupled with Goren's unorthodox style, has
become a source of trouble for him within the NYPD, spawning rumors
and accusations that he is mentally unstable. In particular, this
view is held by the Chief of Detectives, who suspends him for six months without
pay after he embarks on an unauthorized undercover infiltration of
a prison's mental ward. In the season 7
finale, he lost his brother Frank (Tony
Goldwyn) to his archnemesis Nicole
Wallace, and realized his mentor Dr. Declan Gage helped him and
somehow betrayed his archnemsis allowing Goren to be freed. During
season eight, he begins to recover after the events of season
7.
- Det.
Alexandra Eames
(Kathryn Erbe) Season 1 -
Season 9 Premiere is the quiet, practical partner who
generally seems to mesh well with Goren despite the noticeable
personality differences between the two. She worked in the NYPD's
Vice Division for four years before transferring to Major Case. Her
character is much like the screen portrayals of Holmes's partner
Doctor Watson: a
lesser equal, overshadowed by the charismatic presence of a
prodigious partner. While still an assertive and no-nonsense cop
and the senior partner of the pairing, much of Eames's dialogue
consists of sarcastic, pun-heavy observations delivered at dramatically
opportune moments (much like Law & Order's [[Lennie
Briscoe|Det. Lennie Briscoe]] character). There are occasional
hints of a strong [[affection]], and even [[jealousy]], between the
two partners, but their relationship has never become romantic.
Their working relationship is more formal than that of the lead
detectives in ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'', who
typically address each other by their [[given name]]s and have
strong emotional interplay. Goren and Eames typically address each
other by [[surname]], but when either Eames or Goren is
particularly stressed, she calls him "Bobby". She is a [[legacy
preferences|legacy]] officer: her father and late husband were both
cops. In the third season, Eames embarked on a
[[surrogacy|surrogate pregnancy]] for her sister and brother-in-law
and, before her [[parental leave|maternity leave]], was assigned to
desk duty at the police station; her work in the field with Goren
was covered by [[G. Lynn Bishop]]. Recently, Goren and Eames'
working relationship has become more strained, as she has become
fed up with what she sees as Goren's habit of taking her for
granted, expecting her to run interference for his off-beat tactics
and style with both co-workers and superiors without acknowledging
her contributions. These feelings boil over in the episode
"[[Purgatory (Law & Order: Criminal Intent
episode)|Purgatory]]", after Goren embarks on a secret undercover
mission for his superiors, and fails to inform her. Eames takes
Wheeler's place starting in the episode "[[Major Case (Law &
Order: Criminal Intent)|Major Case]]". * '''[[G. Lynn Bishop|Det.
G. Lynn Bishop]]''' (portrayed by [[Samantha Buck]]) '''in episodes
5–11 of season three'''. Bishop is introduced in the episode
"Pravda" as the temporary partner of Det. Robert Goren (Vincent
D'Onofrio), assigned to the Major Case Squad of the New York City
Police Department (NYPD), due to Det. Alexandra Eames volunteering
to serve as a surrogate mother for her sister's baby. Bishop and
Goren often seemed to have a lack of chemistry between them. She
found it complicating to keep up with Goren's many unorthodox ways
of solving a case, something Eames had gotten accustomed to. Her
shield number is 8141; it is clearly legible in the episode F.P.S.
during a scene in which she, Goren, and a third detective are
examining an ATM. It is unknown what happened to her. === Partners
B === Beginning in season five, episodes alternated between two
sets of detectives: the A team, featuring Goren and Eames, and the
B team, featuring Logan and another detective through season 8. In
season 8, Logan was replaced by Nichols. * '''[[Mike Logan (Law
& Order)|Det. Mike Logan]]''' ([[Chris Noth]]) '''Season 5 -
Season 7 (Season 4 Recurring)''' is a troubled detective who
formerly worked in the homicide division of Manhattan's 27th
precinct (from 1990–1995, on ''Law & Order''). He was banished
to the NYPD's career graveyard ([[Staten Island]]) after publicly
punching a [[homophobia|homophobic]] politician who had murdered a
[[homosexuality|gay]] man whom Logan had grudgingly come to
respect; however, Logan redeemed himself by solving a dirty-cop
murder-conspiracy case (the NBC TV movie ''[[Exiled: A Law &
Order Movie]]''). He was transferred from Staten Island to the
NYPD's Domestic Disputes department. Logan first appeared on
''Criminal Intent'' in the fourth-season episode "[[Stress
Position]]", through his romantic involvement with a nurse employed
at a prison being investigated by Goren and Eames. At the beginning
of season five, he was officially transferred to the Major Case
Squad at the behest of Capt. Deakins, in the episode "[[Grow (Law
& Order: Criminal Intent episode)|Grow]]". In addition, Logan
was involved in the "officer-involved shooting" used to fuel the
career-ending conspiracy against Capt. Deakins. After solving a 16
year homicide case in the episode "[[Last Rites (Law & Order:
Criminal Intent episode)|Last Rites]]", dissatisfaction with the
corruption and overall inflexibility of the justice system drove
him to leave the force. * '''[[Carolyn Barek|Det. Carolyn
Barek]]''' ([[Annabella Sciorra]]) '''Season 5''' is Mike Logan's
first partner in the Major Case Squad and a brilliant criminal
profiler who ascended from the hard streets of Brooklyn's [[Cobble
Hill, Brooklyn|Cobble Hill]] to the high ranks of the NYPD and
beyond, spending two post-[[September 11, 2001 attacks|9/11]] years
with the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]. Why she left the
Major Case Squad is unknown. * '''[[Megan Wheeler|Det. Megan
Wheeler]]''' ([[Julianne Nicholson]]) '''Season 6 - Season 8''' is
Mike Logan's second partner in the Major Case Squad. Wheeler
transfers in with her captain-mentor, Daniel Ross. She is
by-the-book, and is reluctant to bend procedural rules, unlike Det.
Logan. She left at the end of the 2006–07 season to go to Europe
for follow-up work with the Joint Task Force, where she had worked
with Capt. Ross. She returns to the role in the episode "Contract";
the absence was written in to cover Julianne Nicholson's
[[maternity leave]]. During Season 8, Det. Wheeler announced she is
pregnant by her ex-fiancé. It was later reported that the character
will be absent from the final episodes of the season in conjunction
with Nicholson's real life pregnancy, and Det. Eames will partner
with Nichols for the remaining episodes. * '''[[Nola Falacci|Det.
Nola Falacci]]''' ([[Alicia Witt]]) '''Season 7 first half''' who
served as Logan's partner for a short time while Wheeler (Julianne
Nicholson) was in Europe teaching American police procedure to
European police officers. * '''[[Zach Nichols|Det. Zach
Nichols]]''' ([[Jeff Goldblum]]) '''Season 8 - Present'''. Joined
as a replacement for Logan after the latter became dissatisfied
with the justice system. He came to Major Case in the episode
"[[Rock Star (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)|Rock Star]]", after
being away from the NYPD for seven years. * '''Det. Julia Porter'''
([[Saffron Burrows]]) '''Season 9 - Present''' Joins as a
replacement for Wheeler .{{cite
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2009|publisher=''[[Seattle
Post-Intelligencer]]''|accessdate=2009-10-11}} === Other characters
=== * '''[[James Deakins|Capt. James Deakins]]''' ([[Jamey
Sheridan]]) '''Season 1 - Season 5''' was Goren and Eames's first
immediate supervisor; he periodically checked their progress during
investigations. At the end of Season 5 (2005-2006), Deakins retired
rather than battle a conspiracy to frame him. The vendetta stemmed
from an episode in which Deakins—torn between loyalty and
integrity—reluctantly allowed Goren and Eames to imprison his
"friend" Frank Adair (a former Chief of Detectives), by refusing to
cover up his misdeeds. Adair used his connections to plant false
evidence of Deakins's corruption; Deakins refused to tarnish the
department by fighting the charges. * '''[[Ron Carver|ADA Ron
Carver]]''' ([[Courtney B. Vance]]) '''Season 1 - Season 5''' was
an idealistic, by-the-book ADA who always pressured Goren and Eames
for additional evidence, as Goren and Eames use instincts to a
degree to develop theories to solve their cases. Like [[Anita Van
Buren]], from ''[[Law & Order]]'', Carver graduated from [[John
Jay College of Criminal Justice]]. No reason has been given for
Carver's departure at the end of Season 5 (2005–2006). * '''[[Danny
Ross|Capt. Daniel Ross]]''' ([[Eric Bogosian]]) '''Season 6 -
Season 9 Premiere''' is Deakins's successor as the Major Case Squad
commander. He is given the command as a reward for a successful
three-year stint as head of a Joint Task Force on International
Money Laundering; he took Det. Megan Wheeler with him to the MC
Squad. * '''Capt. Sarah Brooks''' ([[Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio]])
'''Season 9, episode 2 - present''' is Ross's successor as the
Major Case Squad commander and the first female captain of the
Major Case Squad. === Recurring/Minor characters === *
'''[[Elizabeth Rodgers|Chief Medical Examiner Elizabeth
Rodgers]]''' ([[Leslie Hendrix]]) '''Season 1 - present''' is the
chief medical examiner for the Major Case Squad and 27th precinct.
She and Captain Ross are believed to be boyfriend/girlfriend, said
by Robert Goren (''CI: Frame''), "Did your girlfriend tell you this
[that]?!" * '''[[Nicole Wallace]]''' ([[Olivia d'Abo]]) '''Season
2, episode 3 - Season 7''' is Robert Goren's [[archnemesis]] and a
[[con artist]], [[thief]], and [[serial killer]]. She first
appeared in the episode "Anti-Thesis" as 'Elizabeth Hitchens', she
personally killed 9 people after her premiere episode to the
[[Frame (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)|seventh season
finale]] when she killed [[Robert Goren#Family|Frank Goren]] by a
[[succinylcholine]] injection. In turn, she is presumably murdered
by Goren's former mentor, Declan Gage. * '''[[Faith Yancy]]'''
([[Geneva Carr]]) '''Season 5, episode 6 - present''' Newsreporter
who keeps tabs on the Major Case Squad's 'high-profile cases'. ===
Main Cast === {| class="wikitable" |- ! Season || Junior Detective
||
Senior Detective || Senior Detective || Junior Detective || Captain
|| Assistant District Attorney |- ! height="30px"| [[List of Law
& Order: Criminal Intent episodes#Season 1|1]] | rowspan="10"|
[[Robert Goren]]
([[Vincent D'Onofrio]]) | rowspan="10"| [[Alexandra Eames]]
([[Kathryn Erbe]]) | rowspan="2"| ''Vacant'' | rowspan="4"|
''Vacant'' | rowspan="5"| [[James Deakins]]
([[Jamey Sheridan]]) | rowspan="5"| [[Ron Carver]]
([[Courtney B. Vance]]) |- ! height="30px"| [[List of Law &
Order: Criminal Intent episodes#Season 2|2]] |- ! height="30px"|
[[List of Law & Order: Criminal Intent episodes#Season 3|3]] |
[[G. Lynn Bishop]]
([[Samantha Buck]])* |- ! height="30px"| [[List of Law & Order:
Criminal Intent episodes#Season 4|4]] | ''Vacant'' |- !
height="30px"| [[List of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
episodes#Season 5|5]] | rowspan="4"| [[Mike Logan (Law &
Order)|Mike Logan]]
([[Chris Noth]]) | [[Carolyn Barek]]
([[Annabella Sciorra]]) |- ! height="30px"| [[List of Law &
Order: Criminal Intent episodes#Season 6|6]] | [[Megan
Wheeler]]
([[Julianne Nicholson]]) | rowspan="5"| [[Danny Ross]]
([[Eric Bogosian]]) | rowspan="6"| ''Vacant'' |- ! height="30px
rowspan="2"| [[List of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
episodes#Season 7|7]] | [[Nola Falacci]]
([[Alicia Witt]]) |- | rowspan="2"|[[Megan Wheeler]]
([[Julianne Nicholson]]) |- ! height="30px"| [[List of Law &
Order: Criminal Intent episodes#Season 8|8]] | rowspan="3"| [[Zach
Nichols]]
([[Jeff Goldblum]]) |- ! style="height:30px" rowspan="2"| [[List of
Law & Order: Criminal Intent episodes#Season 9|9]] |
rowspan="2"| [[Julia Porter (Law & Order)|Julia Porter]]
([[Saffron Burrows]]) |- | rowspan="1"| ''Vacant'' | rowspan="1"|
''Vacant'' | rowspan="1"| [[Sarah Brooks]]
([[Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio]]) |- |} ''* not main cast; doesn't
appear in the opening credits'' ==Seasons== ''Criminal Intent'''s
seasons 1–5 aired on NBC on Sunday nights at 9:00 PM [[Eastern
Standard Time|EST]]. Season 6 aired on NBC on Tuesday nights at
9:00 PM EST. In October 2007, new episodes of season 7 aired on the
USA Network on Thursday nights at 9:00 PM EST. In June 2008 the
remaining episodes of the season aired on Sunday nights at 9:00 PM
EST on USA. Starting on January 9, 2008, reruns of season 7 began
airing on NBC. ''Criminal Intent'''s season eight premiere aired on
April 19, 2009 along with the second season premiere of
In Plain Sight and both
shows' season finales aired August 9, 2009.
Hollywood Reporter
confirms that the network is currently finalizing a ninth season of
Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It was reported that
Criminal Intent will premiere the ninth season in March
2010.
| Network |
Season |
Timeslot (EST) |
Season premiere |
Season finale |
TV season |
Ranking |
Viewers
(in millions) |
|
| NBC |
1 |
Sunday 9:00 p.m. |
September 30, 2001 |
May 10, 2002 |
2001–2002 |
- |
11.9 |
| 2 |
Sunday 9:00 p.m. |
September 20, 2002 |
May 18, 2003 |
2002–2003 |
- |
14.3 |
| 3 |
Sunday 9:00 p.m. |
September 28, 2003 |
May 23, 2004 |
2003–2004 |
- |
|
| 4 |
Sunday 9:00 p.m. |
September 26, 2004 |
May 25, 2005 |
2004–2005 |
- |
12.1 |
| 5 |
Sunday 9:00 p.m. |
September 25, 2005 |
May 14, 2006 |
2005–2006 |
- |
11.0 |
| 6 |
Tuesday 9:00 p.m. |
September 19, 2006 |
May 21, 2007 |
2006–2007 |
- |
8.38 |
| USA / NBC |
7 |
Thursday/Sunday 9:00 p.m. |
October 4, 2007 |
August 24, 2008 |
2007–2008 |
- |
4.89 |
| 8 |
Sunday 9:00 p.m. |
April 19, 2009 |
August 9, 2009 |
2009 |
TBA |
5.50 |
| 9 |
Friday 9:00 p.m. |
March, 2010 |
unknown, 2010 |
2010 |
TBA |
TBA |
Episodes
Awards/Nominations
| Year |
Group |
Award |
Result |
Recipient(s) |
| 2002 |
Maggie Award |
"The Third Horseman", from Planned Parenthood |
Won |
|
| People's Choice Award |
Best New Series |
Nominated |
|
| Image Award |
Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series |
Nominated |
Courtney B. Vance |
| 2003 |
Edgar Award |
Best Television Episode |
Nominated |
René Balcer
for "Tuxedo Hill" |
| 2004 |
Satellite Award |
Best Actor in a Series, Drama |
Nominated |
Vincent D'Onofrio |
| Edgar Award |
Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay |
Nominated |
René Balcer and Gerry Conway,
for "Probability" |
| 2005 |
Edgar Award |
Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay |
Won |
René Balcer and Elizabeth
Benjamin,
for "Want" |
| Edgar Award |
Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay |
Nominated |
René Balcer and Gerry Conway,
for "Conscience"; René
Balcer and Warren Leight,
for "Consumed"; René
Balcer and Warren Leight,
for "Pas De Deux" |
| 2006 |
Reims International Television Festival |
Best Drama Episode ("In The Wee Small Hours") |
Nominated |
|
| Banff Television Award |
Best Drama ("In The Wee Small Hours") |
Nominated |
|
| ALMA Award |
Outstanding Director of a Television Drama or Comedy |
Nominated |
Norberto Barba |
| 2008 |
Edgar Award |
Best Television Episode Teleplay |
Nominated |
Warren Leight, Siobhan Byrne, & Julie Martin
for "Senseless" |
| Image Award |
Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series |
Nominated |
Darnell Martin
for "Bombshell" |
| Satellite Award |
Best Actress in a Series, Drama |
Nominated |
Kathryn Erbe |
| ALMA Award |
Outstanding Director of a Television Drama or Comedy |
Nominated |
Norberto Barba |
DVD releases
Universal Studios
Home Entertainment has released
Law & Order: Criminal
Intent on DVD in Regions 1, 2 and 4. Seasons 1–3 have been
released in Region 1, while in Regions 2 and 4 they have released
seasons 1 and 2. Season 4 will be released in Region 1 on November
24, 2009.
|
DVD name
|
Ep#
|
Release dates
|
|
Region 1
|
Region 2
|
Region 4
|
| The Complete 1st Season |
22 |
October 21, 2003 |
February 28, 2005 |
January 20, 2005 |
| The Complete 2nd Season |
23 |
December 12, 2006 |
July 17, 2006 |
March 7, 2006 |
| The Complete 3rd Season |
21 |
September 14, 2004 |
April 13, 2009 |
June 3, 2009 |
| The Complete 4th Season |
23 |
November 24, 2009 |
December 26, 2009 |
December 2, 2009 |
| The Complete 5th Season |
22 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
| The Complete 6th Season |
22 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
| The Complete 7th Season |
22 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
| The Complete 8th Season |
16 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
| The Complete 9th Season |
22 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Technical information
Law & Order: Criminal Intent has been produced in 16:9
format since at least 2004, when it was first broadcast in
HDTV. Standard definition NBC
stations aired the episodes cropped to 4:3 until 2006, when all
Law & Order series began airing episodes in 16:9 for
SD. Reruns of those episodes which were cropped to 4:3 have
subsequently been aired in 16:9 as well. Some broadcasters outside
the USA however still use versions cropped to 4:3.
Related series
Crossovers
On June 15, 2008,
Mary McCormack made
a guest appearance in the 2008 episode "
Contract",
as Mary Shannon, her character from
In Plain Sight. At the time of the
original airing,
In Plain Sight followed
Criminal
Intent on the USA Network.
French adaptation
In July
2005, NBC Universal sold the format of Law & Order:
Criminal Intent to French channel TF1
Alma
Productions to launch a localized French version of the
drama. The version came with its own native language title
(
Paris enquêtes criminelles) and actors. The first season,
consisting of eight episodes, went into production and premiered in
2007. The show mirrors the content of the original US stories,
although it is set in Paris and is adjusted for language and
culture.
Vincent Perez plays Vincent
Revel (French equivalent of
Vincent
D'Onofrio's role,
Robert Goren).
Sandrine Rigaux played Claire Savigny (French equivalent of
Kathryn Erbe's character,
Alex Eames) during the first season. A
crossover between
Law & Order:
Criminal Intent and
Paris, enquêtes criminelles was
produced in preparation for April 2007.
Vincent Perez on the subject of differences between his character
Ravel and Goren (translated from French), "I've watched very little
of the original series so as not to be influenced, but I had the
impression that Goren was very cerebral. Ravel is more instinctive
and perhaps, more vulnerable".
The show premiered in France in May 2007 and has become a major
success for TF1. A second season has been ordered. Sandrine Rigaux
will be replaced by Audrey Looten, who will play Mélanie
Rousseau.
Russian adaptation
A Russian version of
L&O: CI (shot in Moscow with
Russian actors) premiered in March 2007, where it was shown back to
back with the Russian version of
Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit, to become one of Russia's top-rated series.
As a result, the initial order of eight episodes has been expanded
to some 40 episodes.
Other international versions of the show are presently in
negotiations.
In addition, dubbed versions of the original series are available
in over 150 countries.
See also
Notes
- Jeff Goldblum - Yahoo! TV
- Vincent D'Onofrio Leaving 'Law & Order:
Criminal Intent'
- Twitter / Criminal Intent: The new season is
tentativ ...
- Network also finalizing deal to bring back
'Criminal Intent'
-
http://www.tvguide.com/News/DOnofrio-Erbe-Bogosian-1010183.aspx
-
http://showbiz411.blogs.thr.com/law-order-criminal-intent-vincent-donofrio-erbe-bogosian-jeff-goldblum/
- http://www.savinggorenandeamesnow.com
- http://www.savinggorenandeamesnow.blogspot.com
-
http://www.movieline.com/2009/10/law-order-criminal-intent-loyalists-launch-usa-fluffalanche.php
- Network also finalizing deal to bring back
'Criminal Intent'
- Twitter / Criminal Intent: The new season is
tentativ ...
- 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' Season 4 DVD
Release Date Nov. 24, 2009
-
http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/8839027/Law-And-Order-Criminal-Intent-Season-3/Product.html
-
http://www.amazon.com/Law-Order-Criminal-Intent-Season/dp/B0024FADA6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1251383997&sr=1-1
-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Law-Order-Criminal-Intent-Season/dp/B001XCW7BE/ref=gfix-ews-form
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