[NEWS] The 8th Season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent Premieres on the USA Network on Friday, November 7

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IT WOULD BE ‘CRIMINAL’ TO MISS ANY NEW ORIGINAL EPISODES
OF LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT

 
New Episodes Premiere Friday, November 7, 2008 at 9/8c on USA Network


  
Jeff Goldblum joins the cast of Criminal Intent for season eight
Guest stars include Janel Maloney, Lynn Redgrave and many more

 
 
October 23v, 2008 – USA Network will be airing 16 all new episodes for season eight of LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT produced by Wolf Films and Universal Cable Productions. LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT was created and executive produced by Emmy Award winning producer Dick Wolf and developed by Rene Balcer. CRIMINAL INTENT veers from the traditional Law & Order format by taking viewers into the minds of its criminal while following the psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve the crimes.
 
Academy Award and Emmy nominee Jeff Goldblum (Raines, Jurassic Park) has joined the cast for the season eight and will be playing Zach Nichols, a detective who was born
and bred in New York City, particularly the Upper West Side. With a distinctive style and quirkiness, Goldblum has made a name for himself in both movies and television. In 1995, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his live action short film called Little Surprises, which he shared with Tikki Goldberg. In 2005, he received an Emmy nomination for his guest appearance as Frank/Scott on the hit series Will & Grace. His film credits include Man of the Year with Robin Williams, Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park and The Lost World, Independence Day with Will Smith, Nine Months with Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore, David Cronenberg’s The Fly and The Big Chill with Glenn Close and Kevin Kline.

Also new to Criminal Intent are Walon Green, Robert Nathan, John David Coles, Michael S.
Chernuchin, Andrew Lipsitz and Timothy J. Lea who will be the new production team. Walon Green will serve as executive producer, showrunner and head writer, and Michael S. Chernuchin as co-executive producer for D’Onofrio/Erbe episodes, with John Coles as New York based executive producer and director, and Michael Chernuchin as co-executive producer for the series. Green has executive produced numerous episodes of the original Law & Order and several episodes of ER. He also has written for Law & Order, ER and Conviction. Coles served as co-executive producer of the FOX series New Amsterdam and the CBS series 3lbs. Chernuchin has produced and written for both Law & Order, and 24.
 
The producing team for the Goldblum/Nicholson episodes includes Robert Nathan as executive producer, showrunner and head writer. Nathan has been a Law & Order family working on both the original and Special Victims Unit as co-executive producer. Coles will again serve as New York based executive producer and director, with Andrew Lipsitz (CSI, CSI: NY) and Timothy J. Lea (The Riches, CSI:NY) as coexecutive producers.
 
LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT was the top drama series in basic cable prime for 4Q07 and brought new viewers to USA, more than doubling the Thursday 10pm time period audience from the same weeks the prior year. The show boasts an enormously talented cast led by critically acclaimed actor Vincent D’Onofrio (Detective Robert Goren); Kathryn Erbe (Detective Alexandra Eames); Julianne Nicholson (Detective Megan Wheeler) and Eric Bogosian (Captain Danny Ross) and the addition of Jeff Goldblum (Det. Zach Nichols).
 
LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT, Dick Wolf’s third installment of the Law & Order brand, follows the Major Case Squad as it investigates high profile cases, usually homicides, such as those involving VIPs, local government officials and employees, the financial industry and the art world. Criminal Intent differs from other series in the Law & Order franchise because it gives a great amount of attention to the actions and motives of
the criminals, rather than showing (almost exclusively) the police and prosecution’s side of the case.

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