On second thought, Law & Order decides that defense attorneys don't deserve a TV show
The latest Law & Order spin-off has been canned, depriving the world of more Law & Order
In May, Dick Wolf and his Law & Order machine decided to upend decades of Law & Order history by moving forward with Law & Order: For The Defense, a show about a criminal defense firm and that would build each episode on “the promise of a contemporary morality tale” (presumably based around whether or not the people that the firm defends really deserve to be defended or not). It was odd, if only because the people running Law & Order seemed like they were only partially committed to the actual premise of the show—you don’t spend decades working on various TV shows about how the cops are almost always right and how prosecutors are almost always right and how defense attorneys are only marginally better than criminals they represent without getting a very particular view of how the whole system works.