Warren Leight is returning to SVU. The veteran producer, who served as showrunner for seasons thirteen through seventeen, is returning to serve as the showrunner for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's recently ordered record-breaking twenty-first season. 
Fresh off of scoring a record breaking renewal, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is losing a cast member. Philip Winchester (Strike Back, The Player), who plays Peter Stone, is exiting the long running drama ahead of its twenty-first season. The Stone character originated on the short-lived Chicago PD spin-off Chicago Justice and is the son of the mothership Law & Order's original lead prosecutor Ben Stone (Michael Moriarty), After Justice was cancelled, Winchester joined the cast of SVU in a recurring role for season 19, before becoming a regular in season 20. SVU is breaking TV records. NBC has renewed Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for a twenty-first season. With the pick-up, the series breaks the record for longest running prime-time drama series that was previously jointly held by Law & Order and Gunsmoke. 
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will return to Universal TV to finish airing its twentieth season from Wednesday January 30th at 9pm, it has been announced. The twentieth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will receive its UK premiere on Universal TV on Wednesday October 24th at 9pm with a double-bill, it has been announced. 
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will return to Universal Channel to finish airing its nineteenth season from Sunday February 4th at 10pm, it has been announced. Universal Channel has released a trailer for the nineteenth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which is set to premiere this Sunday (October 8th) at 10pm.