USA Network pulls 'Law & Order' episode in wake of Colorado shooting Television executives on Friday combed through their schedules to remove programs with violent scenes that felt too similar to the shooting tragedy at a Colorado theater showing "The Dark Knight Rises." NBCUniversal's USA Network pulled from its weekend line-up an older episode of "Law & Order: SVU." The company's small cable channel Clue withdrew a rerun of the action drama "The Unit," starring Dennis Haysbert. Both programs featured story lines that dealt with "violent hostage shootings," and thus, were deemed inappropriate and insensitive, according to a company spokesman. Premium channel Showtime made substitutions for a handful of movies, which had been scheduled to run this weekend. A Showtime spokeswoman declined to provide specific titles. A spokeswoman for HBO said the pay channel had reviewed its schedule, but did not find objectionable material. Commercials for Warner Bros. release "The Dark Knight Rises" were quickly pulled by several networks, including CBS, NBC, ESPN and Fox. A midnight showing of the movie had just gotten underway at a theater in Aurora, Colo., a suburb of Denver, when a masked gunman opened fire on the audience, killing 12 people and injuring 59 others. AMC Theatres, the nation's second-largest cinema chain, said Friday it would ban patrons from wearing costumes deemed offensive or face-covering masks in the wake of the shooting. TV news shows change plans Witnesses tell of a horrific death scene AMC bans masks, "offensive" costumes in theaters "Dark Knight Rises" commercials pulled from television Complex portrait emerges of suspected Colorado gunman James Holmes