USA Pushes Law & Order: Criminal Intent To Summer 2009

USA Network has announced that new episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent won’t air until summer 2009. This is the second delay in four months. The eighth season was initially scheduled to debut in November 2008, just three months after Season 7 aired. In October the network announced the season would shift to early 2009 so they could air all 16 episodes in a row. This is apparently the same reason for this latest push-back.

For season 8, Chris Noth (Sex and the City), who played Detective Mike Logan, left the show after three seasons, and has been replaced by Jeff Goldblum, who plays Detective Zach Nichols. Preview scenes sent to TV critics in the fall showed that Goldblum’s performance departed from the stammering intellectual roles for which he is generally known. The show’s spokesperson said that Goldblum’s arrival was not responsible for the delays.