‘Law & Order: SVU’ Midseason Premiere: What Time & Channel Is the Show on?

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Peter Scanavino as Carisi and Mariska Hargitay as Benson in Law & Order: SVU. (Photo by: Michael Parmelee/NBC)

Law & Order: SVU finally returns after a long break over the holiday season. Lieutenant Olivia Benson and the rest of the Special Victims Unit are on the case of a stalker in “Next Chapter.” The new episode airs on NBC at 9:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, January 4. Read on for a preview of the episode.

“Next Chapter” is the first new episode of SVU since November 9, when “Broken Rhymes” aired. The main case for “Next Chapter” centers on a woman who is raped and thinks the rapist is the same man who was already convicted of stalking her. In the second plot, Tucker is thinking about retiring and his future with Benson.

This new episode is also the first since to air since The Washington Post published excerpts from an interesting study by Gaurav Sood and Daniel Trielli. The two found that the entire Law & Order franchise over-represents whites and women as victims and perpetrators. They found that, after analyzing 731 episodes, only about 10 percent of criminals on the shows are black. According to the FBI, about 50 percent of murder victims are black, but only 10 percent of victims on the Law & Order shows are.

By the way, NBC still hasn’t scheduled “Unstoppable,” the season 18 episode where Gary Cole (Veep) plays a Donald Trump-inspired character. The episode was supposed to air in the fall and was last supposed to air on November 16.


MIDSEASON PREMIERE DATE: Wednesday, January 4, 2017

TIME: 9:00 p.m. ET

CHANNEL: NBC (To find your local NBC channel, click here to visit TV Guide’s listings and click “Change” next to “Provider.”)

EPISODE DESCRIPTION: “Next Chapter” – “A woman is sexually assaulted by a masked man, but she believes the rapist is the same man who went to jail for stalking her. Meanwhile, Tucker (Robert John Burke) contemplates retirement and a future with Benson (Mariska Hargitay).”

CAST:
Mariska Hargitay as Benson
Robert John Burke as Tucker
Ice T as Tutuola
Kelli Giddish as Rollins
Peter Scanavino as Carisi

Guest Stars
Annie Monroe as Quinn Berris
Chris Bauer as Sgt. Tom Cole)
Ben Cole as Ray Wilson
Enid Graham as Linda Cole
Zach Appelman as Ryan Engel
Bret Lada as Jack Price

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