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The Canadian spinoff of Law & Order has announced the homegrown cast set to appear in next year’s Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent.
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Aden Young (Rectify, Black Robe) will star as Detective Sergeant Henry Graff alongside Kathleen Munroe’s (City on Fire, Patriot) Detective Sergeant Frankie Bateman.
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Schitt’s Creek alum Karen Robinson plays Inspector Vivienne Holness, with The Cleaning Lady’s K.C. Collins appearing as Crown attorney Theo Forrester.
Nicola Correia-Damude (Shadowhunters, Resident Alien) and Araya Mengesha (Nobody, Anne with an E) round out the cast playing a forensic pathologist and a tech expert respectively.
Citytv, which is the Canadian broadcast home to NBC’s Law & Order franchise, will air the series next year that is based on Dick Wolf’s popular franchise that currently includes Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Organized Crime.
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The original Law & Order: Criminal Intent ran for 10 seasons and starred Vincent D’Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe. In later seasons, Chris Noth joined the cast, reprising his role as Detective Mike Logan from the original Law & Order. Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Nicholson, Annabella Sciorra and Eric Bogosian also appeared during its decade-long run.
Produced by Vancouver-based Lark Productions and Cameron Pictures Inc. in association with Citytv, the show is being billed as a “psychological thriller wrapped in a criminal investigation” and will follow two elite detectives from the Specialized Criminal Investigations unit who investigate high-profile crime and corruption in Toronto.
Production on the 10 one-hour original episodes of Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent is currently underway in Toronto.
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It is not known if this iteration will have any crossover with the current crop of Law & Order shows. The series has been adapted internationally with versions set in France and the U.K.
Law & Order debuted in 1990 and ran for 20 seasons. It spawned several spinoffs, including SVU, Criminal Intent, Organized Crime, and the short-lived Law & Order: Trial by Jury and Law & Order: LA. After a 12-year hiatus following its cancellation in 2010, the original series returned in 2022 with longtime star Sam Waterston back as legendary DA Jack McCoy.
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