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<font color=yellow>Dick Wolf</font>, creator of Law & Order and its three spinoffs, is keeping one eye on the Law & Order and CSI: New York Wednesday night face-off even as he launches the fourth Law & Order show, Law & Order: Trial by Jury.
Wolf told Zap2It that he's more than aware of the pressure competition with CSI: New York puts on the original Law & Order. "Yes, absolutely," he said. "I mean, I'd be retarded if I didn't know that [CSI: New York is a sizeable threat to Law & Order]." Law & Order and its spinoffs have faced slightly diminshed ratings this season, while both CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and its spinoff, CSI: Miami, regularly place in the top ten. CSI was the number one drama of the 2003-2004 television season.
Wolf is adamant about the differences between the CSI shows and the Law & Order ones, claiming CSI is a franchise, while Law & Order is a brand. He compares the CSI shows to a chain of restaurants: "CSI is a franchise. It's like the Palm restaurant. If you go to Los Angeles, if you go to Chicago, you get a great steak. The only thing that changes are the caricatures on the wall," he said.
On the other hand, he maintained that the Law & Order shows are quite different fron one another. "Law & Order is a brand. Hopefully it's the Mercedes-Benz of television shows," he said. "Each of the shows are distinctly different. They have distinctly different attitudes. The way you can tell it's a brand is the Goldberg variation of Mike Post's theme and the 'ching-ching,' which is really the only similarity between all four shows."
The original Law & Order will see some changes at the beginning of the next season, when <font color=yellow>Jerry Orbach</font> departs for the new spinoff, Trial by Jury and <font color=yellow>Dennis Farina</font> assumes his place. <font color=yellow>Elisabeth Rohm</font> will also depart the show this season.
Ultimately, Wolf is open to the competition from CSI: New York. "I am a great believer in the more good shows on, the better it is for all of us," he commented.
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Wolf told Zap2It that he's more than aware of the pressure competition with CSI: New York puts on the original Law & Order. "Yes, absolutely," he said. "I mean, I'd be retarded if I didn't know that [CSI: New York is a sizeable threat to Law & Order]." Law & Order and its spinoffs have faced slightly diminshed ratings this season, while both CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and its spinoff, CSI: Miami, regularly place in the top ten. CSI was the number one drama of the 2003-2004 television season.
Wolf is adamant about the differences between the CSI shows and the Law & Order ones, claiming CSI is a franchise, while Law & Order is a brand. He compares the CSI shows to a chain of restaurants: "CSI is a franchise. It's like the Palm restaurant. If you go to Los Angeles, if you go to Chicago, you get a great steak. The only thing that changes are the caricatures on the wall," he said.
On the other hand, he maintained that the Law & Order shows are quite different fron one another. "Law & Order is a brand. Hopefully it's the Mercedes-Benz of television shows," he said. "Each of the shows are distinctly different. They have distinctly different attitudes. The way you can tell it's a brand is the Goldberg variation of Mike Post's theme and the 'ching-ching,' which is really the only similarity between all four shows."
The original Law & Order will see some changes at the beginning of the next season, when <font color=yellow>Jerry Orbach</font> departs for the new spinoff, Trial by Jury and <font color=yellow>Dennis Farina</font> assumes his place. <font color=yellow>Elisabeth Rohm</font> will also depart the show this season.
Ultimately, Wolf is open to the competition from CSI: New York. "I am a great believer in the more good shows on, the better it is for all of us," he commented.
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