LAW AND ORDER: NEW AND IMPROVED
The long-running TV crime series Law and Order (original version) will air for one more season, NBC officials announced today. However, as a result of cost-cutting efforts, the show's episodes will be reduced from one hour in length to 15 minutes each. According to NBC spokeswoman Kelly Carver-Dweek, the changes will be subtle, and are unlikely to be noticed even by long-time viewers. "The opening sequence will remain the same, with a dead body being inadvertently discovered by a civilian," Ms. Carver-Dweek noted. "Every week the civilian will be Jared Fogle, the guy who lost all that weight eating Subway sandwiches. And the bodies will always be found in a Subway shop. Then, after a commercial, the first suspect who's interviewed will confess to the crime. The detective who extracts the confession will execute the guilty party on the spot, with a single shot to the forehead. That means we won't have to show a whole bunch of courtroom scenes. It's been our opinion for many years that the part of the show focusing on all that legal stuff was a real drag. We'll be saving a lot of air time, not to mention a bundle in actors' salaries."
Well done, NBC. Well done.
The long-running TV crime series Law and Order (original version) will air for one more season, NBC officials announced today. However, as a result of cost-cutting efforts, the show's episodes will be reduced from one hour in length to 15 minutes each. According to NBC spokeswoman Kelly Carver-Dweek, the changes will be subtle, and are unlikely to be noticed even by long-time viewers. "The opening sequence will remain the same, with a dead body being inadvertently discovered by a civilian," Ms. Carver-Dweek noted. "Every week the civilian will be Jared Fogle, the guy who lost all that weight eating Subway sandwiches. And the bodies will always be found in a Subway shop. Then, after a commercial, the first suspect who's interviewed will confess to the crime. The detective who extracts the confession will execute the guilty party on the spot, with a single shot to the forehead. That means we won't have to show a whole bunch of courtroom scenes. It's been our opinion for many years that the part of the show focusing on all that legal stuff was a real drag. We'll be saving a lot of air time, not to mention a bundle in actors' salaries."
Well done, NBC. Well done.
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