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Law & Order: SVU Showrunner Announces His Exit In Emotional Post
The current Law & Order: SVU showrunner has posted a moving thread thanking the crew and fans of the series and announcing why he has decided to step down. The series, which was the first spin-off from the popular Dick Wolf legal procedural series Law & Order, premiered in 1999 and has now run for even longer than the original show. The series focuses on a «special victims unit,» which is a team from the NYPD that investigates sex-related crimes. The lead character on the series is Olivia Benson, played by Mariska Hargitay, though for many years she was co-leads with Christopher Meloni's Elliot Stabler, who has recently returned to the series as a crossover with his new spinoff Law & Order: Organized Crime.