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January 08, 01:23 PM
People's Choice Awards

Hi all,

Sorry for the delay since my last post. We were on Hiatus for a few weeks.

If you haven't heard THE GREAT NEWS, Stephanie March is returning to SVU as Alexander Cabot for six episodes!!!

Congrats to Robin Williams on his People's Choice Award for guest starring on SVU!
You can see his accpetance speech here:


Robin Williams - People's Choice Awards

As usual, it's crazy just getting back to work. So I thought a quick way to start the New Year is with some cool tidbits about SVU:

Did you know:
In the open credits of the show all of the people shown/seen (outside of the actors) are current or former crew members
Did you know:
In the 10 Seasons that SVU has been on the air, we have seen over 25,000 people for casting for rolls on the show
Did you know:
Before Diane Neal was casted as our ADA Casey Novak, she originally appeared on the show a few seasons earlier as Amelia Chase, a female rapist in the episode "Ridicule".
Did you know:
Here at our stages (not including our permanent sets) we will often use the same set pieces in over 50 different sets before it gets discarded.
Did you know:
Many of the pieces in our Courtroom set were original from Night Court, then were used in the Dragnet Movie, then (after major renovations) landed here at SVU

Thoughts about this week's show "Stranger?"

Happy New Years Everyone!

February 03, 05:45 PM
Neal approved

Hey everyone,
Tonight's episode, "Snatched," has excellent guest stars. Ron Eldard and Dabney Coleman are just great. It was really fun meeting Burt Young too. Most people will recognize Burt as "Paulie" from the Rocky movies.

Here's something cool about tonight's episode. The script called for a few mug shots of Dabney's character "Frank Hagar" from the last 30+ years. Sometimes the actors themselves find some old pictures of themselves that work and we just turn them into mug shots. However, this time Dabney didn't have anything we could use. So our graphics department (Dylan and Dan) took photos that were taken of Dabney during prep and de-aged them. Dabney's 77 years old in real life. Check out how young we made him look in some of them:

http://blog.nbc.com/laworder_svu/images/1-dabney1972.jpg

http://blog.nbc.com/laworder_svu/images/2-frank88.jpg

http://blog.nbc.com/laworder_svu/images/3-hager-1994.jpg


Few Questions answered:

Emily asked "Why do you tape the rugs down?" She is referring to the picture of Stephanie on set from my previous post. We tape them down for a few reasons. 1) So the actors don't trip. They have stage directions and lines to know, the last thing we need is for them to have to worry about tripping. 2) We tape them so they don't slide or move during the scene. Lastly and most importantly, 3) SOUND. Those high heels make a lot of noise when actresses walk around. The rugs eliminate that sound.

Katt asked: "Now that Cabot is back; is Greylek not the ADA anymore?" Cabot is back but Greylek is still here as well. Stay tuned on 3/10 to find out.

KT asked: "How many episodes are left to air this season?" Including tonight's episode we have 10 more. There are some big guest stars coming to SVU down the stretch so keep watching. Seems there is some confusion with our airdates in general so let me lay them out for you (and of course these can change per NBC): SVU has new episodes tonight and next week (2/10) followed by a break. We'll be back on 3/10 with new episodes for four weeks. We'll have a small break again, and then our last four episodes begin airing on 4/28. Hopefully that's not too confusing.