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Law & Order: Philandering Talk-Show Host Unit

By Brent Furdyk, Editor, TV Week | Nov 5, 2009
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Law & Order has always made the most of its "ripped-from-the-headlines" shtick of taking scandalous news stories and fictionalizing them just enough to be used as cases in the show, and the next victim appears to be none other than David Letterman.

According to Entertainment Weekly, L&O has just put out a casting call for an episode in which a popular (and married) talk-show host is caught cheating, leading to an extortion plot and, ultimately, homicide. The twist: the talk show host is a woman, who is having an affair with a young female staffer on her show.
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Hah! Did I call it or what?!

Submitted by Anonymous on November 5, 2009 - 1:42pm.

Re: comment on your blog, Oct 2nd.

I had no idea . . .

Submitted by brent on November 6, 2009 - 9:19am.

. . . "Law & Order" producer Dick Wolf reads my blog!

I'd go after him for

Submitted by Anonymous on November 6, 2009 - 12:04pm.

I'd go after him for royalties if I were you...!

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