If Jeff Zucker is worried about “Law & Order” having some serious competition next season, he’s not showing it.
“Law & Order,” which enters its 15th season on NBC in the fall, has had a slightly off year.
Although it’s still among the 15 most-watched shows on TV, its audience of 15.9 million viewers a week is down by about 8 percent compared to last season’s 17.3 million. It’s also declined about 10 percent among adults 18-49, the demographic group NBC uses to measure success.
And for the first time in several years, “L&O” will have a bona fide competitor at 9 p.m. Wednesdays next season. CBS has scheduled its third “CSI” show, which like “Law & Order” is set in New York, in that time slot.
Yet Zucker, the president of the NBC Universal Television Group, sees it as healthy competition.
“The way I look at it, that’s great for network television. The viewers they’ll bring to that time period is good for all of us,” he says. “We welcome that competition and look forward to it.”
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Edited by Cara DiPasquale ([email protected]) and Victoria Rodriguez ([email protected])
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