Telemystery: NBC Renews Law & Order SVU, Orders Chicago Fire

The official announcements from the networks regarding the Fall 2012 television season won't come until next week, but news about what's new and what's being renewed have started to leak out.

NBC has renewed Law & Order: SVU for a 14th season and ordered to series another Dick Wolf-created drama, Chicago Fire. (Though this new series is written by a pair of crime novelists, Derek Haas and Michael Brandt, we're not sure it qualifies as a "telemystery" … though we're the first to admit our own definition of the term can be somewhat arbitrary at times!)

NBC ordered Revolution to series last week, another example of a drama we're going to have to learn more about before we decide whether it qualifies as a "telemystery".