Dick Wolf, the procedural king behind nine shows across two networks, is getting back to work.
Writers rooms for NBC’s Chicago trio of Fire, Med and PD, as well as Law & Order and its spinoff, SVU, and CBS’ FBI, Most Wanted and International are all reopening this week. New showrunners have also been installed for Chicago Fire, with Andrea Newman now running the room for season 12 and Wolf veteran Matt Olmstead taking over FBI: International. Law & Order spinoff Organized Crime continues its search for a new showrunner and will not be among the Wolf shows that are expected to be among the first to return on NBC once the SAG-AFTRA strike concludes.
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Rick Eid returns as showrunner for season 23 of Law & Order and David Graziano is back at the helm of L&O: SVU for its 25th season. Gwen Sigan returns as showrunner for season 11 of Chicago PD, with Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider back as showrunners for the ninth season of Chicago Med. At CBS, Eid also returns to run the flagship FBI, while David Hudgins is back to run spinoff Most Wanted. On the streaming side, Prime Video’s On Call resumes work on season one with Tim Walsh as showrunner.
Wolf was among the few showrunners and producers whose overall deal was not suspended during the nearly 150-day-long writers strike as he remained at work in a producing capacity on an unscripted show.
With the WGA strike now in the rearview mirror, broadcast networks have been reopening writers rooms with the goal of completing preproduction and writing before the actors return to work so that filming can resume and high-value scripted originals can return to primetime as they look to salvage the 2023-24 season. Premiere dates have not yet been revealed as that remains fluid based on the SAG-AFTRA strike.
All Wolf shows are produced by his production company, Wolf Entertainment. He remains based at his longtime home at Universal Television, which produces all of the NBC shows and co-produces, alongside CBS Studios, the FBI franchise. Amazon co-produces On Call.
