Regulation & Order is about to hit a serious milestone within the fall 2025 TV schedule by carrying out one thing that few primetime exhibits ever do: reaching 25 seasons. Whereas which may appear extra spectacular if the drama wasn’t paired on Thursday nights with Regulation & Order: SVU Season 27 with Mariska Hargitay because the main woman from Day 1, the unique Regulation & Order is a tv establishment. Sadly, it is also dropping a sequence common forward of Season 25, with Mehcad Brooks departing after three seasons as Detective Jalen Shaw. No alternative was introduced when information first broke of the Supergirl vet’s exit, and up to date social media posts have me questioning what the L&O crew has deliberate.
The primary submit that had me pondering the complete squad on Regulation & Order was really an Instagram video shared with SVU, because the casts of each exhibits celebrated getting again to work. The video even exhibits Octavio Pisano, who is simply returning briefly. Reid Scott and Maura Tierney can each be seen, respectively taking part in Detective Vince Riley and Lieutenant Jessica Brady. The “Regulation” half of Regulation & Order is represented as properly, with Tony Golden as DA Baxter and Hugh Dancy as ADA Worth, with Odelya Halevi anticipated to be again as ADA Maroun. However the place’s the standard second detective? Have a look:
It is a enjoyable look behind the scenes on the actors who’re clearly having much more enjoyable engaged on the exhibits than their characters do when investing and prosecuting particularly heinous crimes, however Reid Scott appears to be paired with Maura Tierney moderately than a alternative associate. The latest submit on X (previously often called Twitter) additionally does not level in the direction of a emptiness within the solid:
The countdown is on. ⏳ #LawAndOrder Thursdays return Sept 25 on @NBC and streaming on Peacock. pic.twitter.com/d7Zp3cm9PpAugust 28, 2025
Now, I would not essentially anticipate Regulation & Order to spoil a brand new character by way of X submit if their arrival hasn’t been introduced forward of time, however I additionally do not assume that there have been indicators that Riley will likely be getting a associate to interchange Shaw. Wanting again at earlier replacements, Maura Tierney was introduced as changing Camryn Manheim months forward of the Season 24 premiere final yr. Reid Scott was introduced as filling the emptiness left by Jeffrey Donovan’s Detective Frank Cosgrove a few months earlier than Season 23 premiered. If Mehcad Brooks was being changed as Shaw, it appears probably that we might have heard about it by now.
Filming has clearly been underway for a while now, if Regulation & Order retains kind of to the identical schedule as SVU. Based mostly on the slate that Mariska Hargitay is holding within the Instagram video, SVU manufacturing started on July 24. Absolutely we might find out about a brand new Regulation & Order sequence common, proper?
Nicely, a seemingly smaller solid might be an indication of Regulation & Order coping with the identical funds cuts which have affected One Chicago over within the Windy Metropolis nook of the Dick Wolf TV universe, and I am inclined to assume that Season 25 will at the least begin with Brady spending extra time within the subject alongside Riley. Contemplating Benson did not bench herself regardless of being captain, it isn’t unprecedented within the franchise for the highest-ranking individual within the unit to nonetheless have their boots on the bottom.
So, what does all of this imply? For one, if I am pausing an Instagram video to zoom in on a slate and determine the date {that a} present began manufacturing, it in all probability implies that I am uninterested in summer time hiatus and prepared for fall TV exhibits to come back again! In all seriousness, although, I believe that one change that we’ll see in Regulation & Order‘s milestone twenty fifth season goes to be a smaller solid at the least to begin.
Discover out, when Regulation & Order Season 25 premieres on Thursday, September 25 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC, forward of Regulation & Order: SVU Season 27’s premiere at 9 p.m. ET and the primary episode of Regulation & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 (which is already out there with a Peacock subscription) that may air this fall at 10 p.m. ET.