NBC has been in business with Dick Wolf for over 20 years and the network plans to keep that relationship going. In addition to extending an overall deal with him through 2020, the peacock renewed Law & Order: SVU and Chicago Med.
SVU will enter its 18th season in fall 2016, making it two years shy of the original Law & Order’s 20-season run. Chicago Med, which had its first season extended by five episodes, will start its second season in the fall.
NBC previously renewed Chicago P.D. for season four and Chicago Fire for season five.
NBC and Wolf are also developing two more shows. Chicago Law is in the works, as is a Law & Order reality show called You The Jury.
“I’ve been in the same office, with the same phone number, for 30 years. I’m glad people won’t have to learn a new one,” Wolf said in a statement on Feb. 1. “Staying was really a foregone conclusion. My partnership with [NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt] has been the best relationship I’ve ever had with the head of a network. He has also assembled a great team of executives at both the network and the studio who make it possible for the Wolf Entertainment team to turn out multiple shows. It is truly a synergistic group effort that makes me enormously excited about both the present and the future.”