Followers of Legislation & Order: Organized Crime have been ready since again in June of the 2025 TV schedule to be taught if Christopher Meloni’s SVU spinoff shall be renewed for Season 6, following its first season as a streaming authentic for these with a Peacock subscription. Nicely, OC is coming again to TV quickly… type of. The drama will return to its former 10 p.m. ET time slot on NBC, however not for a sixth season. Beginning this fall, the community will air the fifth season that’s already obtainable streaming.
Whereas I’ve no complaints about an excuse to observe the episodes once more, I do have questions on how NBC will deal with the F-bombs and elevated violence that might fly on Peacock. Now, I will not drop any spoilers concerning the season past that there have been instances that it felt like a completely totally different present and the ways in which the sequence felt extra lifelike in Season 5, however the massive information jogged my memory of what star Rick Gonzalez advised CinemaBlend about attending to swear.
NBC Is Bringing Legislation & Order: Organized Crime Again To Thursday Nights
First issues first! NBC’s launch of its fall 2025 lineup did not embody too many surprises, with One Chicago returning to Wednesdays, The Voice holding onto slots on Mondays and Tuesdays, and the Legislation & Order/Legislation & Order: SVU duo coming again to Thursdays. The shocker was that Legislation & Order: OC was listed in its outdated time slot of 10 p.m. ET on Thursday nights, following SVU at 9 p.m. ET.
Whereas I used to be momentarily excited by the concept that OC had been renewed for Season 6 and returning to NBC, Deadline cleared up what’s occurring: Season 5 is getting broadcast on community tv. In keeping with the outlet, the fifth season wasn’t as darkish as anticipated and will run for the ten p.m. ET primetime slot and doubtlessly attain a brand new viewers.
It stays to be seen if/how it will have an effect on Organized Crime having a future on Peacock or NBC, however I nonetheless have questions on how OC shall be moved again to its outdated slot. Even when much less darkish than anticipated, there are some traces crossed on Peacock that actually by no means occurred when OC was on community. That features F-bombs, and it seems that Rick Gonzalez was about as massive of a fan of dropping them on digital camera as his character, Detective Bobby Reyes, was.
What Rick Gonzalez Informed Us About F-Bombs On Peacock
Now, anyone who has watched an R-rated film tweaked for broadcast tv or an HBO present minimize for primary cable undoubtedly is aware of that it is not onerous to only silence an expletive or dub it over with one other phrase. I wasn’t an enormous fan of how Fits approached dropping F-bombs on USA, but it surely’s doable.
In truth, after I live-blogged the model of the OC Season 5 premiere that aired on NBC after already seeing the model that streamed on Peacock, I seen that “fucking dolls” on the streamer was modified to “silly dolls” on the community. Nevertheless it was simply enjoyable to see the detectives a bit extra unleashed on Peacock, and Reyes specifically embraced the brand new F-bomb freedom.
Once I spoke with Rick Gonzalez and acquired the inside track on what he “spoke with the writers” about for an enormous Reyes episode, I needed to ask about characters attending to… increase their vocabularies, so to talk, on Peacock, and he shared:
I knew that. I used to be excited for that. I used to be like, ‘That is nice. What can I say?’ And I am simply actually on set telling the director and the writers, like, ‘So can I say the F-bomb proper now?’ They’re like, ‘Yeah,’ and I am like, ‘Nicely, nice, as a result of I am gonna say that proper now!’ For all these instances the place they made me say, ‘Screw that!’ … No, it is time.
“Screw that!” actually did not do justice to a few of what would go down on Legislation & Order: Organized Crime even throughout its NBC days, so who might blame Gonzalez for being enthusiastic about attending to shift over to “Fuck that!” on Peacock? Once I famous in our interview that a number of the murders from the primary 4 seasons weren’t actually “Gosh dang it” sorts of state of affairs, he agreed, saying:
We need not ‘screw’ these murders. We have to get to it.
For as excited as Rick Gonzalez was to drop F-bombs and clearly made the many of the alternatives to take action, he shared that there was one other enjoyable component of Season 5 transferring previous the NBC language limitations. After sharing that it was “not powerful in any respect” to get used to the brand new regular on Peacock, he stated:
For me, I acquired a kick out of simply seeing Stabler say curse phrases. I am like, ‘No, give him all of the curse phrases. We have to see extra F-bombs out of Stabler.’
Who else can consider some particular situations that Stabler might need dropped an F-bomb again in his SVU days? That is not even to say all of the twists that basically known as for some harsher language as soon as he moved over to launch Organized Crime! So, I am left with questions.
Will NBC dub over each “fuck” like what occurred when the Season 5 premiere aired on NBC? Or simply silence them so that there is a hole within the dialogue? Or is there a actuality wherein Stabler or Reyes or anyone else might truly transcend the same old “Screw this” or “Rattling that” that may normally be doable on community TV?
Whereas I am not anticipating anyone to be shouting any Peacock-level expletives on NBC, exhibits that air within the 10 p.m. slot can usually get darker than episodes that air throughout early hours. Simply take a look at how Chicago P.D. compares to Chicago Hearth and Chicago Med elsewhere on NBC!
Whether or not or not you’ve got already seen the episodes on Peacock, Legislation & Order: Organized Crime begins its full Season 5 run on Thursday, September 25 at 10 p.m. ET, following the Season 27 premiere of Legislation & Order: SVU at 9 p.m. ET and the Season 25 premiere of Legislation & Order at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. Legislation & Order shall be again with out one sequence common, though a visitor star already pitched how his character might be a terrific match to affix full-time.