Regulation & Order: SVU is lower than two months away from returning to NBC within the 2025 TV schedule for Season 27, and attentive followers have identified for some time that forged modifications are coming. Kelli Giddish is returning to play Amanda Rollins as a collection common once more, however two regulars had been additionally reduce: Octavio Pisano as Velasco and Juliana Aidén Martinez as Silva. Now, a behind-the-scenes video of Season 27 reveals that a kind of reduce stars might be again in any case, however I anticipated someone completely different.
The video options a lot of the returning forged members, together with Peter Scanavino, Kevin Kane, Aimé Donna Kelly, and naturally Mariska Hargitay to the tune of Sir Combine-a-Lot’s “Lockjaw.” (Ice-T is lacking from the video, however he confirmed his “Fd up” return for Season 27 on X.) Check out the shock addition to the returning regulars:
Your eyes don’t deceive you – that is Octavio Pisano current among the many different SVU forged members! The actor, who was a collection common for 4 seasons as Detective Joe Velasco, was reduce from the forged forward of Season 27, with the expectation that the Season 26 finale was the final that we might see of him. I used to be okay with that, just because Season 26 ended with the character getting an enormous promotion, which appeared just like the pure option to ship him off from Particular Victims with none tragedy.
Juliana Aidén Martinez’s Silva, then again, did not have an exit arrange in any respect. Despite the fact that Season 26 was her first (and now solely) as a collection common, I’d have thought she’d be again for no less than a quick farewell to tie up unfastened ends earlier than I’d have predicted Pisano as Velasco.
This does not imply that followers ought to anticipate Velasco again full time, nevertheless. E! Information confirms that he is simply coming again to wrap up Velasco’s arc within the Season 27 premiere. Finally, plainly SVU is giving Velasco the identical remedy as Kat (Jamie Grey Hyder) and Garland (Demore Barnes) after they had been reduce between Seasons 22 and 23. Each actors returned for the Season 23 premiere. Considerably sarcastically, Octavio Pisano’s Velasco was introduced in as Kat’s substitute.
Whereas NBC has not but launched any teases for what precisely the Season 27 premiere might be about with Velasco within the combine, the community did not too long ago reveal the premiere date: Thursday, September 25 at 9 p.m. ET. The primary episode of the season follows the milestone Season 25 premiere of Regulation & Order, which is able to air with out Mehcad Brooks after his departure at 8 p.m. ET, and precedes Regulation & Order: Organized Crime in its return to NBC at 10 p.m. ET.
This is not a case of Organized Crime being renewed for Season 6 and introduced again to its outdated slot with new episodes after SVU, however relatively NBC airing Season 5 episodes that already launched on Peacock. Maybe that is an excellent signal for the way forward for Christopher Meloni’s spinoff, with OC nonetheless within the operating for a renewal. Within the remaining weeks earlier than Regulation & Order Thursdays return, you possibly can revisit earlier episodes streaming with a Peacock subscription.