NBC has hit pause on the next chapter in Dick Wolf‘s criminal justice franchise, indefinitely delaying the launch of Law & Order: Hate Crimes, TVLine has learned.
It was last fall that the Peacock network handed a series order to the project, which was to be based on New York’s actual Hate Crimes Task Force, the second oldest bias-based task force in the U.S. Former Law & Order: SVU boss Warren Leight was slated to serve as EP/showrunner.
The new Hate Crimes team was initially slated to be introduced during an episode of Law & Order: SVU this season.
According to an insider, NBC is focused on getting the latest spinoff “right” versus “meeting an artificial deadline.”