LAW & ORDER: LOS ANGELES on NBC. 2010-11. It's hard to believe it has been seven years since this TV show was cancelled. It was a spin-off of the original and long running, "Law & Order." Dick Wolf is the creator and he moved the spin-off to Los Angeles with a whole new cast. It looked very promising.
The TV series started, but ran only 9 episodes when NBC put it on hiatus. The reason was, I believe, due to low TV ratings. It returned a few months later with a new TV introduction and cast changes. Detective Rex Winters (Skeet Ulrich) was killed off in the 9th episode. That was a total shock to TV fans. Attorney, Connie Rubirosa (Alana De La Garza) was brought in from New York who was on the original "Law & Order." Prosecutor, Ricardo Morales (Alfred Molina) went back to being a detective and replaced Winters.
The last 8 episodes ran-out the TV season and then NBC cancelled it. There was a 22 episode order and the network aired the remaining 5 segments in the summer of 2011. NBC split the episodes as detective Rex Winters returned. Which meant that those episodes were already filmed before the changes at mid-TV season. It struggled to find an audience even though hardcore TV fans followed it from New York to L.A.
In my opinion, Terence Howard brought a lot of charisma to the TV show. The glitz and the glamour of L.A., also made it look intriguing. A big mistake was killing off Winters. Maybe, TV audiences were burned out on all the TV spin-off's. Who knows? I absolutely loved the L.A., version and believed it could've went 5 TV seasons.
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