Article: `Law & Order: Criminal Intent,' premiering Sunday on NBC.(The Dallas Morning News)

"Law & Order: Crooks and Crannies" isn't in development yet, but who knows what's coming next.

NBC's seemingly unstoppable New York police franchise now has as many weekly editions as "Dateline," thanks to Sunday's arrival of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." This third family member intends to show what makes bad guys tick. Maybe that's somewhat instructive in these unprecedented times, but there's also a major contextual downside to a series that sets its weekly stages with cold-blooded killings. Fictional deaths or no, a lot of us could use a respite.

Executive producer Dick Wolf initially told TV critics that "Law & Order" and its offshoots are the ...

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