Mariska staying for season 14/new love interest
Wow...
Source: Hollywood Reporter
'Law & Order: SVU': Harry Connick Jr. Joins in Multiepisode Arc (Video)
Harry Connick Jr. has been tapped for a multiepisode arc on NBC's Law & Order: SVU, playing a love interest for Mariska Hargitay's Detective Olivia Benson.
Connick will play Executive Assistant District Attorney David Hadena, a prosecutor assigned to a case with Benson, whose work relationship blossoms into something more.
In making the announcement Friday at the Television Critics Association press tour, NBC Entertainment topper Bob Greenblatt noted that Benson would be getting a love interest for the first time. Longtime friends Hargitay and Connick previewed the guest stint in a taped message from the set, offering a glimpse of his four-episode arc.
Connick's first episode is set for Jan. 18.
Greenblatt also confirmed that Hargitay would be in every episode of the procedural, with Hargitay cementing her role with the show for next season, noting that she was having "too much fun," and wouldn't be leaving the series anytime soon.
Connick joins the Season 13 cast that features a handful of new and returning faces, including new showrunner Warren Leight, Diane Neal, Stephanie March, Danny Pino, Kelli Giddish and Andre Braugher.
The veteran procedural has seen its ratings slide this season in the wake of lead Chris Meloni's departure. Meloni, who co-starred opposite Mariska Hargitay for the drama's first 12 seasons, departed the series in May after protracted contract negotiations. He has since joined HBO's True Blood as a series regular, playing an ancient vampire in the campy vampire drama's upcoming fifth season.
NBC Video: Mariska and Harry say hello from the set
Edit: Video uploaded to Mediafire for those who live outside the US.
Source: ETOnline
Mariska Hargitay: Not Leaving 'SVU'
Although her longtime co-star, Christopher Meloni, left Law & Order: Special Victims Unit at the end of season 12, Mariska Hargitay revealed today that she has no plans to do the same thing.
"I can't leave this show," she said via taped message at today's Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena. "I'm having too much fun."
And she's poised to have even more fun in 2012 as crooner Harry Connick, Jr. will be joining the show for a 4-episode arc as Manhattan's new D.A. and a love interest for Olivia Benson.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
'Law & Order: SVU': Harry Connick Jr. Joins in Multiepisode Arc (Video)
Harry Connick Jr. has been tapped for a multiepisode arc on NBC's Law & Order: SVU, playing a love interest for Mariska Hargitay's Detective Olivia Benson.
Connick will play Executive Assistant District Attorney David Hadena, a prosecutor assigned to a case with Benson, whose work relationship blossoms into something more.
In making the announcement Friday at the Television Critics Association press tour, NBC Entertainment topper Bob Greenblatt noted that Benson would be getting a love interest for the first time. Longtime friends Hargitay and Connick previewed the guest stint in a taped message from the set, offering a glimpse of his four-episode arc.
Connick's first episode is set for Jan. 18.
Greenblatt also confirmed that Hargitay would be in every episode of the procedural, with Hargitay cementing her role with the show for next season, noting that she was having "too much fun," and wouldn't be leaving the series anytime soon.
Connick joins the Season 13 cast that features a handful of new and returning faces, including new showrunner Warren Leight, Diane Neal, Stephanie March, Danny Pino, Kelli Giddish and Andre Braugher.
The veteran procedural has seen its ratings slide this season in the wake of lead Chris Meloni's departure. Meloni, who co-starred opposite Mariska Hargitay for the drama's first 12 seasons, departed the series in May after protracted contract negotiations. He has since joined HBO's True Blood as a series regular, playing an ancient vampire in the campy vampire drama's upcoming fifth season.
NBC Video: Mariska and Harry say hello from the set
Edit: Video uploaded to Mediafire for those who live outside the US.
Source: ETOnline
Mariska Hargitay: Not Leaving 'SVU'
Although her longtime co-star, Christopher Meloni, left Law & Order: Special Victims Unit at the end of season 12, Mariska Hargitay revealed today that she has no plans to do the same thing.
"I can't leave this show," she said via taped message at today's Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena. "I'm having too much fun."
And she's poised to have even more fun in 2012 as crooner Harry Connick, Jr. will be joining the show for a 4-episode arc as Manhattan's new D.A. and a love interest for Olivia Benson.