Fall within the 2025 TV schedule is ready to carry again a few of community tv’s largest reveals, together with Legislation & Order and Legislation & Order: SVU on NBC. Actually, Legislation & Order: Organized Crime is even coming again with reruns to recreate the community’s Legislation & Order Thursday lineup. A fourth Legislation & Order present will likely be airing this fall as properly, however not on NBC. Legislation & Order Toronto: Legal Intent will come to the U.S. through The CW, and the main girl is any individual who followers of the expansive Dick Wolf TV franchise will doubtless acknowledge.
Legislation & Order Toronto: Legal Intent is a brand new tackle Legislation & Order: Legal Intent, the hit American spinoff of the OG collection that aired for ten seasons and practically 200 episodes. The drama already premiered on Citytv in Canada in 2024, and went on to grow to be the #1 primetime premiere on Citytv and #1 primetime debut for a drama that season. The primary of two seasons involves The CW with the Season 1 premiere on September 24.
It received’t be a by-product fairly like SVU and Organized Crime, which had sturdy connections to the previous reveals, and it didn’t launch within the Nice White North through a backdoor pilot, which is the norm throughout the Legislation & Order and wider Wolf Leisure world.
This present stands alone… besides that star Kathleen Munroe, who performs the Specialised Legal Investigation Unit’s Detective Sergeant Frankie Bateman, is a well-recognized face throughout not solely the Legislation & Order nook of the Wolf franchise, but in addition the three-show One Chicago world on NBC and the FBIs on CBS. Check out her record of Wolf franchise credit from earlier than L&O Toronto:
- Legislation & Order: SVU Season 19, Episode 3 – Evelyn Bundy (2017)
- Chicago Med Season 5, Episode 4 – Dr. Andrea Danover (2019)
- Chicago P.D. Season 7, Episode 4 – Dr. Andrea Danover (2019)
- FBI Season 3 – Season 4 – SAC Rina Trenholm (2019)
- Legislation & Order: Organized Crime Season 3, Episodes 12 and 13 – D.A. Rika Harold (2023)
Sure, Legislation & Order Toronto: Legal Intent will likely be Kathleen Munroe’s sixth present within the franchise, which is comprised of Legislation & Order, SVU, Organized Crime, Chicago Hearth, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, FBI, and FBI: Most Needed and FBI: Worldwide earlier than their cancellations. Frankie Bateman will solely be her fifth character, nevertheless, after taking part in the identical individual within the 2019 One Chicago crossover on NBC, and he or she’s doubtless finest acknowledged from her stints on FBI and Legislation & Order: Organized Crime.
Her character on FBI got here to a tragic finish after recurring within the third and fourth seasons, and it was such an enormous plot twist for the present’s NYC workplace that I acknowledged Kathleen Munroe instantly when she arrived on Legislation & Order: Organized Crime a pair years later. (Whereas OC can be set in New York, Munroe’s character wasn’t related to FBI‘s Rina.)
None of that is to say that it’s unprecedented for actors to play a number of characters throughout the identical franchise. The rely is in double digits between the American Legislation & Order reveals already, and Jeremy Sisto and Alana De La Garza have been Legislation & Order regulars earlier than they have been Munroe’s costars on FBI. Plus, based mostly on the trailer for Legislation & Order Toronto: Organized Crime, I don’t suppose anyone will confuse her new character with these she’s performed elsewhere within the franchise. Have a look:
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Legislation & Order Toronto: Legal Intent follows Kathleen Munroe’s Detective Sergeant Frankie Bateman and Aden Younger’s Detective Sergeant Henry Graff, with high-profile homicides to analyze within the largest metropolis in Canada. They use psychological techniques in the middle of their investigations, and – because the identify suggests – leans into the motives of criminals. Circumstances will contain finance, politics, actual property, and media.
I can’t vouch as as to if or not the Toronto-set entry within the franchise will characteristic the enduring “DUN DUN” or theme tune, the latter of which is in reality so iconic that Dick Wolf himself had it as a ringtone. Learn the way the Canadian procedural compares to the U.S. incarnations with the Legislation & Order Toronto: Legal Intent premiere on Wednesday, September 24 at 8 p.m. ET on The CW. The second season will arrive on The CW in 2026.