law and order svu season 19 total episodes
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 19) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was renewed for a nineteenth season on May 12, 2017.[1] Michael S. Chernuchin, who had previously worked on Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Chicago Justice took over from Rick Eid as showrunner, after Eid left SVU to be showrunner for the fifth season of Chicago P.D. after only one season as showrunner on SVU.[2] Production on the season started on July 20, 2017.[3] On January 9, 2018, NBC ordered an extra two episodes for season nineteen, as confirmed in a tweet by Robert Brooks Cohen, rounding the episode count to 24.[4]
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 18) At the end of production of the season, during upfronts SVU was renewed for a nineteenth season. Following the renewal announcement, it was revealed that show runner/executive producer Rick Eid had departed the show. He took over Chicago P.D. as showrunner/EP starting with its fifth season, replacing C.P.D. co-creator/EP Matt Olmstead.[5] Michael Chernuchin, former showrunner and executive producer for Dick Wolf's Chicago Justice series, as well as a former executive producer and writer for many past incarnations of the Law & Order franchise, was selected as SVU's new showrunner.