Cole recently told The Hollywood Reporter that “I don’t know that anyone’s ever going to see” his episode.
“I never pressure the network to schedule anything in a specific way, except things like crossovers, because it’s [NBC’s] air,” he continued.
It was pushed back to October because of internal concerns over its content, and then delayed to after the election.
The SVU episode, which features Veep‘s Gary Cole as a Trump-like presidential candidate whose campaign is derailed when he’s accused of raping an underage girl, “was written nine months ago,” Wolf noted.