Long-running U.S. cop show LAW & ORDER has been cancelled after 20 years.
DICk Wolf's highly-successful New York-based drama premiered in America in 1990 and went on to spawn two separate spin-offs - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. A Los Angeles-based Law & Order is still being planned.
But the original has been scrapped.
TV executives at NBC have decided not to take the original format into it 21st season, confirming to E! Online that the show has been axed.
Law & Order has narrowly missed out on being crowned the longest-running TV drama in history - it is currently tied with western Gunsmoke, which ran for 20 season before its finale in 1975.