Warren Leight is returning to the Law & Order franchise as executive producer and showrunner of NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Leight is finalizing a deal to succeed Neal Baer, who, after 11 year at the helm of SVU, is leaving the crime drama at the end of the season to segue into a rich three-year overall deal with CBS TV Studios. With an experienced showrunner like Leight in place, NBC and Dick Wolf have solved one of the two issues SVU faces in its quest for a 13th season. The other is re-signing stars Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni, whose deals are up at the end of the season. The two have just started talks with the network, with the pace of the negotiations expected to pick up during the next couple of weeks.

via Warren Leight To Run ‘Law & Order: SVU’ – Deadline.com.

Warren Leight, le producteur exécutif de Lights Out, est sur le point de signer un contrat pour succéder à Neal Baer au poste de showrunner de New York Unité Spéciale. Une info qui laisse entendre que le cop show de NBC devrait (très très très) probablement décrocher une 13ème saison…

A noter que Leight a officié pendant sept ans comme producteur exécutif de New York Section Criminelle.