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ITV in the UK has announced that Law & Order: UK is ending after eight seasons. The final installment aired on June 11th overseas but season eight has yet to air on BBC America.

Created by Dick Wolf, Law & Order: UK began in 2009 and episodes were based on early episodes of the original Law & Order series. The cast includes Bradley Walsh, Ben Bailey Smith, Peter Davison, Georgia Taylor and Dominic Rowan.

"There may well come a time when we re-visit Law & Order: UK," said ITV's Director of Drama Commissioning Steve November. "For the moment we’ll be resting the series whilst we continue to refresh our drama slate."

The cancellation decision coincides with Walsh's decision to leave his role as Ronnie Brooks. The actor has been with the series since the beginning. He said, "Eight series is a...

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Ben Bailey Smith talks being the new recruit on Law & Order: UK in a new video Q&A.

In the Digital Spy exclusive clip, Smith reveals how it felt to join the ITV crime hit as new DS Joe Hawkins.

The actor, rapper and comic - who also goes by the alias 'Doc Brown' - talks Joe's past and his dynamic with Bradley Walsh's veteran cop Ronnie Brooks.

Law & Order: UK will return to ITV for its eighth series on Wednesday, March 12 at 9pm.

Georgia Taylor, Dominic Rowan, Peter Davison and Paterson Joseph will all reprise their roles alongside Smith and Walsh.

Former series regular Harriet Walter - who played Di Natalie Chandler - will also make a special guest appearance in the new eight-part run.

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Georgia Taylor reveals what sets Law & Order: UK apart from other crime shows in a new video Q&A.

In the Digital Spy exclusive clip, Taylor - who plays Kate Barker - talks the ITV drama's unique format, adopted from the Us original.

Law & Order: UK will return to ITV for its eighth series on Wednesday, March 12 at 9pm.

Paul Nicholls will not return to the series, with actor, rapper and comic Ben Bailey Smith making his debut as new DS Joe Hawkins.

Bradley Walsh, Dominic Rowan, Peter Davison and Paterson Joseph will all reprise their roles alongside Taylor.

Former series regular Harriet Walter - who played Di Natalie Chandler - will also make a special guest appearance in the new eight-part run.

For the latest Law & Order: UK news, follow @LawandOrderUK on Twitter and visit www.facebook.com/lawandorderukofficial

Law & Order: UK gets eighth series on ITV

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ITV has debuted a first-look trailer for the new series of Law & Order: UK.

The promo focuses on the introduction of new recruit DS Joe Hawkins, played by Ben Bailey Smith.

Smith (Hunted, Derek) replaces Paul Nicholls, who played DS Sam Casey on the crime drama.

The actor - also known as rapper Doc Brown - appears opposite Law & Order: UK veteran Bradley Walsh (DS Ronnie Brooks) in the promo.

Peter Davison, Georgia Taylor, Paterson Joseph and Dominic Rowan will all reprise their roles for the latest eight-episode run.

Law & Order: UK will return to ITV for its eighth series later this year.

Law & Order: UK gets eighth series on ITV...

London – U.K. TV giant ITV said Thursday it has ordered season eight of Law & Order: UK, starring Bradley Walsh, Georgia Taylor, Paterson Joseph and Dominic Rowan. The show from the Kudos banner of 21st Century Fox's Elisabeth Murdoch-led Shine Group is based on the U.S. hit franchise from Dick Wolf. Filming of the latest eight-episode series will begin in London next month and air on ITV next year. Law & Order has been one of the most successful brands in U.S. primetime TV "and has become a firm favorite with the

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After Season 7 consistently won its time slot this year on ITV, the network has ordered an eighth season of Law & Order: UK. Shooting starts next month on the British version of the franchise for broadcast in 2014. Bradley Walsh, Georgia Taylor, Paterson Joseph and Dominic Rowan are returning with newcomer Ben Bailey Smith (Derek) joining the force. The new season will be produced by Jane Dauncey. Alison Jackson and Jane Featherstone will executive produce for Kudos Film and Television. The scripts are written by Nick Hicks Beach, Tom Grieves, Richard Stokes, Matt Evans, Jamie Crichton, Louise Ironside and Noel Farragher. Mat King, Joss Agnew and Jill Robertson will direct. Averaging 5.4M viewers, Season 7 maintained a 21.3% share. Previous seasons have aired in the U.S. on BBC America.

ITV has renewed Law & Order: UK for an eighth series.

Ben Bailey Smith - also known as rapper Doc Brown - will join the cast as DS Joe Hawkins, new partner for DS Ronnie Brooks (Bradley Walsh).

Smith (Hunted, Derek) replaces Paul Nicholls, who departed the crime drama last series as DS Sam Casey.

Dominic Rowan, Georgia Taylor, Paterson Joseph and Peter Davison will all return to Law & Order: UK for the new eight-part series.

The latest episodes will see Ronnie face a notorious drug dealer and look into police corruption, while the team also investigate the death of a psychiatrist who specialises in violent juveniles and a hotel room killing without a body.

"ITV is delighted to see the return of Law & Order: UK," said the channel's Head of Drama, Jane Hudson. "It's a much loved drama amongst our audience and they certainly won't be disappointed by what's in store for them this series.

Law & Order: UK returns to ITV this week for its seventh series and the long-running crime drama's undergone a bit of a cast overhaul - on the side of Law, there's new recruit Paterson Joseph (Peep Show), while former Coronation Street and Casualty star Georgia Taylor joins the Order side of things as new prosecutor Kate Barker...

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ITV has unveiled a first-look promo for the new series of Law & Order: UK.

Casualty's Georgia Taylor and Peep Show's Paterson Joseph join the crime drama for its seventh run.

Taylor is cast as crown prosecutor Kate Barker, while Joseph will play Di Wes Leyton.

Bradley Walsh, Paul Nicholls, Peter Davison and Dominic Rowan all reprise their roles in the new episodes.

Series seven - which features guest stars Patrick Baladi, Ramon Tikaram and Glynis Barber - opens with a two-parter from writer Emilia di Girolamo, exploring the aftermath of a devastating train crash.

Law & Order: UK returns to ITV on Sunday, July 14 at 9pm on ITV.

> Paul Nicholls quits Law & Order UK after two series...

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Georgia Taylor has joined the cast of 'Law & Order: UK'. The former 'Coronation Street' actress will play defence barrister-turned-Crown Prosecutor Kate Barker, a headstrong female who is set to infuriate her new associate Chief Prosecutor Jacob Thorne (Dominic Rowan). Paterson Joseph is also the joining the cast of the ITV1 drama, taking on the role of Di Wes Leyton, who has been in the police force since the age of 18. The first two episodes of the new eight-part series will be a compelling two-part story written by Emilia di Girolamo with the second episode exploring 'a day in the life'...

Georgia Taylor has joined the cast of 'Law & Order: UK'. The former 'Coronation Street' actress will play defence barrister-turned-Crown Prosecutor Kate Barker, a headstrong female who is set to infuriate her new associate Chief Prosecutor Jacob Thorne (Dominic Rowan). Paterson Joseph is also the joining the cast of the ITV1 drama, taking on the role of Di Wes Leyton, who has been in the police force since the age of 18. The first two episodes of the new eight-part series will be a compelling two-part story written by Emilia di Girolamo with the second episode exploring 'a day in the life'...

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Paul Nicholls is set to join the cast of ITV’s Law and Order: UK. The actor will play a young detective called DS Sam Casey who is tasked with investigating the shooting of DS Matt Devlin. Nicholls will join cast regulars including Peter Davison and Dominic Rowan in season six of the show which is set to air early in the new year. ITV have also announced that former Eastender Tamzin Outhwaite will have a guest role in the new series along with a variety of other stars including Toby Stephens, Tim McInnery and Eva Pope.

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No matter which side of the Atlantic you find yourself on this summer, you will be able to enjoy a summer season of Law and Order UK. Season 5 of the show begins on ITV at 9 p.m. Sunday 17 July. This is the slot that was previously occupied by Vera and then Scott and Bailey, so fans of crime dramas will be pleased to see this show taking that spot.

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If I’m being completely honest, and I really do try to be, I had no idea there was a Law & Order: UK. And I’m not surprised. The Us remakes a lot of British television, so why can’t the opposite be true as well? The UK show has obtained two new actors to join the cast, Dominic Rowan and Peter Davison.

Rowan will play Jacob Thorne, the new senior prosecutor replacing James Steele (Ben Daniels). Thorne was made for this job and will let nothing stand in his way when prosecuting. Davison plays Henry Sharpe who has just accepted the job of director of the crown prosecution. Sharpe is “a down-to-earth pragmatist” with a past connection to Thorne. The two actors are joining current series stars Badley Walsh, Jamie Bamber, Harriet Walter and Freema Ageyman

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David Cronenberg's third collaboration with Viggo Mortensen is no longer called The Talking Cure, and will henceforth be known as The Dangerous Method. Maybe the former just wasn't sexy enough for those Universal execs. Who the hell wants to go see a movie about, like, talking?So the movie will sport a different title from Christopher Hampton's (Dangerous Liaisons) original play, but otherwise the song remains more or less the same: a three-hander drama about Sigmund Freud arguing with his pupil, Carl Jung, and Jung's affair with the emotionally volatile patient Sabina.The play sold out its 2003 London run starring Ralph Fiennes as Jung, Dominic Rowan as Freud and Jodhi May as Sabina. Cronenberg's version will feature Mortensen as Freud (replacing Christophe Waltz at short notice), Michael Fassbender as Jung, and Keira Knightley.Producer Jeremy Thomas (who worked with Cronenberg on Crash and Naked Lunch) promised Deadline that...

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Keira Knightley has chosen well for her West End stage debut as a spoiled young movie star who is the center of attention in Martin Crimp's rhymed update of Moliere's "The Misanthrope."She gets to look fabulous and also deliver some withering observations and insults to the sycophantic friends who surround her character, much to the annoyance of her disillusioned older lover (Damian Lewis). The play runs through March 13 at the Comedy Theater.Lewis is Alceste, a playwright whose general demeanor fits the title of the play. "Call it insanity, but I take issue with all of humanity," he says. Angry and impatient, Alceste despises the flunkies who hang around Jennifer (Knightley), whom he adores and wishes to take away from her shallow showbiz world.The setting is a fancy London hotel room where Jennifer entertains assorted visitors including actor Julian (Chuk Iwuji) and agent...

There is no point pretending that the play itself will be the main attraction to lots of the audience at London's Comedy Theatre when its new show officially opens next week. The West End debut of Keira Knightley will irresistibly get all the headlines and shift a lot of the tickets, though the rest of the cast of The Misanthrope – including Damian Lewis, Dominic Rowan and Tara Fitzgerald – are not exactly duffers. A special word of welcome is due, nevertheless, for the overdue return to the London stage of any play by Molière, who is an all too rarely performed dramatist in this country these days. We haven't yet reached the point where any reference to Molière requires a footnote to explain that he was a celebrated 17th-century French comic playwright. Yet things may be heading that way. Even the National Theatre, which in its early days was a staunch champion of his work,...

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I agree with Colin Boyd over @TheBigPicture about Keira Knightley, when he said: Sure, the Pirates movies built her stardom, but she's also picked up an Oscar nomination in the past six years (Pride and Prejudice), was quite good in Atonement, and has done a lot of left-of-center stuff when she could have played it safe and gone for romantic comedies.

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- - - That's why Ms. Knightley remains one of today's most sought-after actresses, she is always looking for ways to hone her craft. Now, she's determined to enter theater - Knightley joins Damian Lewis and an outstanding ensemble with Tara Fitzgerald and Dominic Rowan in Martin Crimp's blistering version of Molière's greatest comedy, The Misanthrope.

Transported from 17th century Paris to modern-day London, Alceste (Damian Lewis) is a famous British playwright disillusioned and angry with the hypocrisy, shallowness and vanity of the contemporary world.

I agree with Colin Boyd over @TheBigPicture about Keira Knightley, when he said: Sure, the Pirates movies built her stardom, but she's also picked up an Oscar nomination in the past six years (Pride and Prejudice), was quite good in Atonement, and has done a lot of left-of-center stuff when she could have played it safe and gone for romantic comedies.

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- - - That's why Ms. Knightley remains one of today's most sought-after actresses, she is always looking for ways to hone her craft. Now, she's determined to enter theater - Knightley joins Damian Lewis and an outstanding ensemble with Tara Fitzgerald and Dominic Rowan in Martin Crimp's blistering version of Molière's greatest comedy, The Misanthrope.

Transported from 17th century Paris to modern-day London, Alceste (Damian Lewis) is a famous British playwright disillusioned and angry with the hypocrisy, shallowness and vanity of the contemporary world.

I agree with Colin Boyd over @TheBigPicture about Keira Knightley, when he said: Sure, the Pirates movies built her stardom, but she's also picked up an Oscar nomination in the past six years (Pride and Prejudice), was quite good in Atonement, and has done a lot of left-of-center stuff when she could have played it safe and gone for romantic comedies.

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- - - That's why Ms. Knightley remains one of today's most sought-after actresses, she is always looking for ways to hone her craft. Now, she's determined to enter theater - Knightley joins Damian Lewis and an outstanding ensemble with Tara Fitzgerald and Dominic Rowan in Martin Crimp's blistering version of Molière's greatest comedy, The Misanthrope.

Transported from 17th century Paris to modern-day London, Alceste (Damian Lewis) is a famous British playwright disillusioned and angry with the hypocrisy, shallowness and vanity of the contemporary world.

I agree with Colin Boyd over @TheBigPicture about Keira Knightley, when he said: Sure, the Pirates movies built her stardom, but she's also picked up an Oscar nomination in the past six years (Pride and Prejudice), was quite good in Atonement, and has done a lot of left-of-center stuff when she could have played it safe and gone for romantic comedies.

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- - - That's why Ms. Knightley remains one of today's most sought-after actresses, she is always looking for ways to hone her craft. Now, she's determined to enter theater - Knightley joins Damian Lewis and an outstanding ensemble with Tara Fitzgerald and Dominic Rowan in Martin Crimp's blistering version of Molière's greatest comedy, The Misanthrope.

Transported from 17th century Paris to modern-day London, Alceste (Damian Lewis) is a famous British playwright disillusioned and angry with the hypocrisy, shallowness and vanity of the contemporary world.

I agree with Colin Boyd over @TheBigPicture about Keira Knightley, when he said: Sure, the Pirates movies built her stardom, but she's also picked up an Oscar nomination in the past six years (Pride and Prejudice), was quite good in Atonement, and has done a lot of left-of-center stuff when she could have played it safe and gone for romantic comedies.

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- - - That's why Ms. Knightley remains one of today's most sought-after actresses, she is always looking for ways to hone her craft. Now, she's determined to enter theater - Knightley joins Damian Lewis and an outstanding ensemble with Tara Fitzgerald and Dominic Rowan in Martin Crimp's blistering version of Molière's greatest comedy, The Misanthrope.

Transported from 17th century Paris to modern-day London, Alceste (Damian Lewis) is a famous British playwright disillusioned and angry with the hypocrisy, shallowness and vanity of the contemporary world.