NBC’s Best ‘Law & Order’ Series Broke the Franchise’s Formula

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Dick Wolf is the undisputed king of network TV, having built a primetime empire on procedural storytelling. At the center of it all is Law & Order, the iconic franchise that redefined the crime drama with a deceptively simple formula where each episode introduces a new case and follows it through both sides of the justice system, from the police investigation to the criminal prosecution, to tell a standalone story in 45 minutes. The brilliance of that two-part structure – half law, half order – enabled the crime-of-the-week franchise to become one of television's most enduring and successful institutions, spawning eight spin-offs over more than three decades.

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