John Shiban Tapped As Showrunner For NBC’s ‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’
deadline.comJohn Shiban has been named executive producer and showrunner for NBC‘s Law & Order: Organized Crime. Shiban fills the last remaining open showrunner spot for Wolf Entertainment & Universal Television’s drama series following the end of the writers strike.
Law & Order: Organized Crime is set to air in midseason. Shiban replaces Sean Jablonski, who stepped down as showrunner in March, the fourth showrunner to exit the NBC police procedural in a little over a year.
At the time, SVU’s David Graziano stepped in to oversee the remaining three episodes of Season 3. Writers rooms began opening earlier this month, shortly after the WGA reached a deal, for Wolf Entertainment and Universal TV’s three Chicago dramas for NBC, three FBI dramas for CBS as well as NBC’s Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU.
Starring Christopher Meloni, Law & Order: Organized Crime is executive produced by Dick Wolf, John Shiban, Paul Cabbad, Meloni, Arthur W.
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