Chris Meloni Reunites With Mariska Hargitay While “Freshly Unemployed”
Although Law & Order: Organized Crime is over, Stabler and Benson are still partners for life behind the scenes.
Following the spin-off’s cancellation after five seasons, Detective Elliot Stabler star Christopher Meloni reunited with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Mariska Hargitay, who has played Olivia Benson for the show’s 27-season run.
“What one does on a random Thursday when still in LA and freshly unemployed. Dinner hang with pals @therealmariskahargitay,” Meloni captioned photos from the outing.
Last week, Deadline exclusively reported that Law & Order: Organized Crime was canceled after five seasons at Peacock and NBC, following a soft outreach for a new showrunner earlier this year.
Meloni later took to Instagram to thank the franchise’s fans for the “great ride” on his spin-off, which ran since 2021, following his 12-season run on SVU from 1999 to 2011. “P4L [partners for life],” commented Hargitay.
When asked if Stabler could make a return to Law & Order: SVU, Hargitay told Deadline, “I hope so. That is a very heartening thing for both of us, that our relationship was so iconic culturally and that Benson and Stabler still resonates is deeply meaningful to me, and Chris and I, I’m sure you know, are very, very close. He’s a very in-demand actor, so we’ll see if the schedule is lined up.”
Meanwhile, SVU continues its record-breaking streak as TV’s longest-running primetime live-action series after it was renewed for Season 28 this month.
Meloni’s next TV gig comes as the lead of Dan Fogelman’s upcoming NFL drama, The Land, on Hulu.
