Law & Order: Special Victims Unit continues to shatter TV records as it stretches into its 26th season on the air, but will the procedural return for season 27? Launched in 1999 as a spinoff of Dick Wolf’s wildly successful Law & Order, SVU follows the detectives of the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit, a division that specializes in investigating sexually-based offenses throughout the city. Managing to outlive the flagship Law & Order series (which was canceled in 2010 but has since been revived), SVU continues to set the record as the longest-running live-action scripted series in TV history.
