NBC Boss: SVU's Hargitay Will Stay in "Every Episode," Voice Returns Publish-Super Bowl

Mariska Hargitay, Carson Daly Mariska Hargitay is going to be amazing her workload throughout the following season of Law & Order: SVU, but NBC boss Robert Greenblatt states audiences will not have the ability to tell. "You won't notice anything," Greenblatt stated Monday, while talking with reporters throughout NBC's fall TV preview session. He added that although the actress, who lately adopted a young child, is going to be "amazing her load when it comes to shooting days," her alter ego Olivia Benson will not be any a lesser presence on-screen. (Benson is going to be marketed to some supervisor position within the thirteenth season, a change that motivated head lines captured recommending Hargitay could be coming back in just a lower capacity.) "I do not think anything will change on the watch's screen,Inch Greenblatt stated, adding that his goal would be to have Hargitay remain on the program well beyond next season. "She is going to maintain every episode." (Simultaneously, Christopher Meloni, who performed Benson's partner Elliot Stabler, leaves the series and new detectives happen to be introduced in. They will be performed by Kelli Giddish and Danny Pino.) Greenblatt also introduced the second season of singing competition The Voice - "an extremely welcome and unpredicted hit" for that network - has arrived TV's most coveted launch pad. It'll return following the Super Bowl on February. 5. New series Smash, a musical starring Debra Playing, Anjelica Huston and The American Idol Show runner-up Katharine McPhee, will premiere at 10/9c on February. 6, following a second episode from the Voice. Elsewhere in news of NBC's more effective franchises, Greenblatt stated he'd just attended a table reading through for that new Steve Carell-less season from the Office and left certain that James Spader, who'll play a brand new mind of Dunder-Mifflin, could carry the banner, although another. "He an ideal easily fit in this mixture... I believe he's different than Steve. He's got their own iconoclastic acting style," Greenblatt stated. "It will likely be a small adjustment for that relaxation from the cast as things move about,Inch however the transition has produced a "refocused" authors room. When it comes to rankings anticipation, Greenblatt stated he'd be "thrilled" when the show maintained its current amounts of viewership. Searching forward at NBC, Greenblatt layed out what's approaching, his desires a bit of the animation game and why he isn't concerned about The Playboy Club: Sean Hayes, Michael Buble, Dick Wolf and can Ferrell, have projects within the pipeline. Hayes is focusing on a comedy pilot by which he'll star. "It's beginning, but we are pinpointing a concept,Inch Greenblatt stated. "Sean is a great friend and i believe it's the perfect time he returned" while watching camera. (Hayes has stored busy like a producer on NBC's approaching Grimm and TV Land's Hot in Cleveland.) Pop star Michael Buble, meanwhile, will star inside a holiday special created by Saturday Evening Live maestro Lorne Michaels. Wolf is creating a firemen drama for that network, and Ferrell and Adam McKay's Gary Sanchez Prods. (HBO's Eastbound and Lower) have signed an offer to build up comedies. NBC wants its hit animated series. Hoping of having that, the network and Universal Media Galleries have signed Office creator Greg Daniels - whom Greenblatt known to as "among the founding fathers in our Thursday evening comedy selection" - to some development and production deal with him to build up shows in a number of genres, but particularly in animation. Prior To The Office, Daniels produced and executive created Fox's King from the Hill. Playboy problems? Recently, NBC's Salt Lake City affiliate KSL-TV stated it wouldn't carry NBC's approaching drama The Playboy Club. The show has since laded a brand new home on KMYU, however the Parents Television Council continues to be advocating other affiliate marketers to decrease the show. Greenblatt stated he is not worried. "Almost every other affiliate is going to be airing the show," he stated, saying KSL-TV's decision did not surprise him. "They do not program Saturday Evening Live" either. And so far as the evaluations to Mad Males, Greenblatt stated the confusing both period dramas is not likely. Playboy Club is "really an vitalized cleaning soap opera... I do not think it'll seem like Mad Males whenever you ultimately view it,Inch he stated. "It is a fun cleaning soap having a mob element, a criminal offense element..." What's next for NBC? Take a look at Prime Suspect and Smash. Greenblatt pointed towards the approaching remake of Prime Suspect, starring Maria Bello like a tough detective attempting to thrive within the boys of club from the police department, as among the sorts of shows he's searching to use NBC. (Greenblatt spent yesteryear many years running programming for cable network Showtime.) "It is a large genre show, however it feels fresh," he stated, explaining it's a cop drama driven with a strong "iconoclastic" female lead in Bello's character. Another example is Smash, a mid-season drama from executive producer Steven Spielberg set from the mounting of the new Broadway show. It'll feature original music (unlike the most popular Top 40 fare present in Glee). "Smash might be probably the most adventurous show we all do, also it might be probably the most narrow show we all do,Inch he stated. NBC is grateful for that Voice and also the Sing-Off and also the Greatest Loser, but... The network wants more scripted hits. While tipping his hat to America's Got Talent, that is in the center of its most powerful season ever, and also the Voice, Greenblatt stated "there is no negative towards the reality stuff," but he would like to "rebalance" the schedule with "scripted implies that become lengthy lasting hits. We are centered on that pretty extensively."