Law & Order SVU: Warren Leight Leaving as Showrunner — Season 24

Legislation & Order: SVU showrunner Warren Leight won’t be again for the procedural’s upcoming twenty fourth season. The EP broke the information late Tuesday on social media.

“The ultimate day of taking pictures is at all times bittersweet,” he wrote on Twitter. “At present was a little bit greater than that. As a few of you might have already found out, I’m stepping down on the finish of #SVU23. The final two years of present operating throughout a pandemic have been arduous, and I’ve determined to take a break.”

Leight was showrunner on SVU from Seasons 13 to 17. He returned in Season 21 and helped usher in a milestone; that was the season SVU turned the longest-running live-action sequence in TV historical past.

“At the least as soon as every week this yr a brick got here through the window,” Leight added in his prolonged Twitter assertion. “This particular person quarantined, that location misplaced, one other present fell behind and our visitor star was now not out there. Every time casting, digital camera, design, wardrobe, areas, h/mu, props, drivers got here up with a save. And once they didn’t, our enhancing room, led by the indefatigable genius, Arthur Forney did. Someway the obstacles pulled us all nearer collectively. The episodes stayed on monitor and appeared to get stronger the longer the season went on.”

Legislation & Order: SVU will air its Season 23 finale on Thursday, Could 19.