Law & Order is set to return for Season 24 in the not-too-distant future of the 2024 TV schedule , with one big cast change after the departure of former series regular Camryn Manheim . Otherwise, the detectives and attorneys of NBC's long-running drama should be back to business as usual..
. mostly, anyway. According to Mehcad Brooks, one aspect will be different starting this fall, and he shared with CinemaBlend what will be "updated" this time around.
I spoke with Mehcad Brooks– who ranks among actors to play more than one character in the franchise – ahead of the new season of Law & Order , and he described a new "Three Stooges" dynamic on set between him, Reid Scott, and Season 24 newcomer Maura Tierney . When asked what it's like to have some laughs between the scenes of a pretty heavy and serious TV show, the actor shared: You kind of have to, right? You're waking up at 5:30 in the morning, six o'clock in the morning, and you're talking about dead people and murder and assault and some of the darkest spots of the human consciousness by eight o'clock. One thing that I've learned by working so closely with soldiers and police officers is that they have some of the most warped senses of humor that you've ever experienced, because they have to.
There has to be some levity in the situation. We try to bring that off camera, and then sometimes on camera. Law & Order may not be the funniest show in primetime, but the cast does find ways to laugh when the cameras aren't roll.