NBC Sets SVU Marathon of Hargitay's Top Episodes Before Emmys
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- NBC will air a three-episode Law & Order: SVU marathon on Thursday, September 10, showcasing Mariska Hargitay's best episodes as a tribute four days before she hosts the Primetime Emmy Awards.
- The block features "Charisma" (originally aired Nov. 16, 2004), "911" (originally aired Oct. 4, 2005), and "Undercover" (originally aired April 15, 2008) — with "911" being the episode for which Hargitay won her 2006 Outstanding Lead Actress Emmy and the other two earning additional nominations.
- Hargitay has earned eight Emmy nominations for SVU over the show's run and added two more this year as producer and director of her documentary My Mom Jayne, about her mother Jayne Mansfield.
- The September 14 Primetime Emmy ceremony will be Hargitay's first time hosting, taking the stage at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
- Law & Order: SVU's Season 28 premieres Thursday, October 8 at 9 p.m., and the series will surpass 600 episodes later this year — a milestone underscoring the show's extraordinary network-TV longevity.
- SVU is executive produced by Dick Wolf with Hargitay among the executive producers, and currently stars Ice-T, Kelli Giddish, Peter Scanavino, Kevin Kane, and Aimé Donna Kelly.
Why it matters: NBC is leveraging its longest-running current drama and its biggest star as a built-in promo for Hargitay's first-ever Emmy hosting gig, giving the network two guaranteed tune-in moments in the same week. The 600-episode milestone — buried mid-story — puts SVU in rarefied network-TV longevity territory, making the marathon a reminder that Hargitay's hosting debut doubles as a coronation for a still-running franchise.
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