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Article: NBC adds to its `Law & Order' franchise with `Criminal Intent'.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
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- September 17, 2001
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Back-biting islanders trying to outfox each other, cameras hidden in the suburban woodwork, mediums conversing with the dead _ you can have all the reality TV you can stomach. But the one thing that has sustained TV since the first electron beam skated across the screen has been crime. The most popular TV shows of all time have been based _ one way or other _ on crimes and those intrepid folk who solve them.
TV producer Dick Wolf knows that secret very well. Come this fall, Wolf will have three shows on the tube, 27 times a week. They include the time-honored "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and the new pup in the litter, "Law & Order: Criminal ...