Law & Order: SVU Set for Syndication Launch

UNIVERSAL CITY, June 5:
NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution has sold Dick Wolf’s hit drama Law
& Order: Special Victims Unit in
more than 70 percent of the U.S. for its weekday broadcast syndication debut in
fall 2009.

SVU has already been sold to Fox owned-and-operated
stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Washington D.C., Houston,
Phoenix, Minneapolis, Orlando and Baltimore. The series has also been sold to
stations from CBS, Sinclair, Sunbeam, Belo, Hearst, Granite, Capitol, Local TV,
Media General, McKinnon and more. New markets include WPSG-TV Philadelphia,
KUSI-TV San Diego and WSLS-TV Roanoke.

The hit prime-time series,
which has now been sold in 24 of the top 25 markets, just completed its ninth
season on NBC, where it ranked as the number one crime drama on network
television among women and adults 18-34, according to Nielsen Media Research. Law
& Order: Special Victims Unit
is a Wolf Films production in association with Universal Media Studios. Wolf is
the creator and executive producer, with Neal Baer (NBC's ER, China Beach), Ted Kotcheff (Fun with Dick and Jane, First Blood) and Peter Jankowski also serving as executive producers.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski