Law and Order SVU season 25 suffers schedule shake-up with episode 9 delay
Law and Order SVU didn’t return in its usual time slot, leaving fans disappointed by the schedule change.
Law and Order SVU has once again suffered a shake-up to the schedule with no new episode airing this week.
The entire NBC franchise is currently in the middle of a hiatus with SVU, Law and Order and Organized Crime all going missing from the small screen on Thursday, March 28.
Law and Order SVU was expected to make a comeback for episode nine, Children of Wolves, but a re-run aired in its place.
This isn’t the first time the legal dramas have gone on a break from their latest series, with no new episodes coming out just a few weeks ago.
Season 25, which should have premiered in September, also suffered a four-month start delay thanks to the Hollywood actors and writers’ strikes last year.
Understandably, fans were far from happy when they realised no new episode would be coming out this week, with one person describing the shake-up as “sickening”.
“Half a season (in part to the strikes) and then weeks between episodes?” a fan commented on X, formerly Twitter.
“I don’t want to be that person but this schedule is not working @lawandordertv @nbc.”
“These breaks are actually really getting annoying now”, said a third. While another user commented: “Considering that the writer’s strike delayed these current seasons from premiering in the fall, we should just be getting back-to-back episodes before the summer break.”
Thankfully, an end is in sight for this delay with NBC already announcing that it will be a two-week hiatus.
So even though fans will be missing out once again next week, Thursday, April 4, all three dramas will be returning the following week on Thursday, April 11.
The synopsis for episode nine, Children of the Wolves, reads: “A teenager found unconscious in a park leads to a missing persons investigation.
“Benson must help Noah come to terms with his past when he questions how he was born.”
Long-running fans of the show will remember that Noah was born to a sex worker and her assailant and then sold to a pornography producer.
He eventually became a ward of the state and when Captain Olivia Benson (played by Mariska Hargitay) bonded with the boy, she decided to adopt him.
What makes this episode even more special though is the fact that it was directed by actress Hargitay herself.
She has been behind the camera for nine episodes this series, having first started directing in season 15.
Hargitay told USA Network in 2019: “Directing has been profound.
It helped me understand all of the moving pieces.
“As an actor, you’re sort of focused on your role and what you need to do, and directing obviously is a huge zoom-out…It’s just made me a better storyteller in every way.”
