I never got into the original Law & Order series. I must admit I started to watch SVU because Ice-T is in it. I never really knew when it was on though and I didn't watch it regularily until I got married. My wife knew how to (more like she had the motivation to) look in the TV guide to see when it was on. I also got into Criminal Intent after I got married too. It happened to be on TV before BoomTown (a show that only ran 1 year and hardly part of a 2nd) and we caught a couple of episodes and got hooked on it too.
It is convenient for us that CI and SVU are on the same night, one right after the other. I'm certain I would've enjoyed the original Law & Order too but I just didn't have the time to get hooked on another show.
CI was good before they started making too many changes. It is still good, but I can see why people don't tune in. IIRC Goran (D'Onoforio) had health problems and couldn't do a full time schedule so thats why they brought Logan onto the show. It would be nice to see a few episodes per season to see all four detectives collaborating on the same case. Alternating the which detective pairing is on the show each week kinda loses peoples interest.
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