Regulation & Order: SVU showrunner Warren Leight won’t be again for the procedural’s upcoming twenty fourth season. The EP broke the information late Tuesday on social media.
“The ultimate day of taking pictures is at all times bittersweet,” he wrote on Twitter. “Right now was a bit greater than that. As a few of you have got already discovered, I’m stepping down on the finish of #SVU23. The final two years of present operating throughout a pandemic have been arduous, and I’ve determined to take a break.”
Leight was showrunner on SVU from Seasons 13 to 17. He returned in Season 21 and helped usher in a milestone; that was the season SVU grew to become the longest-running live-action collection in TV historical past.
“A minimum of as soon as every week this 12 months a brick got here via the window,” Leight added in his prolonged Twitter assertion. “This individual quarantined, that location misplaced, one other present fell behind and our visitor star was now not out there. Every time casting, digital camera, design, wardrobe, places, h/mu, props, drivers got here up with a save. And once they didn’t, our modifying room, led by the indefatigable genius, Arthur Forney did. One way or the other the obstacles pulled us all nearer collectively. The episodes stayed on observe and appeared to get stronger the longer the season went on.”
Regulation & Order: SVU will air its Season 23 finale on Thursday, Could 19.
