Wolf Entertainment Opens 8 Writers Rooms, Sets ‘Chicago Fire’ & ‘FBI: International’ Showrunners

Writers rooms are opening this week for Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television’s three Chicago dramas for NBC, three FBI dramas for CBS as well as NBC’s Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU.

In light of Wolf veteran Derek Haas’ departure last spring as FBI: International showrunner and Chicago Fire co-showrunner, both series have set successors.

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Andrea Newman, formerly co-showrunner alongside Haas, will be sole showrunner for Chicago Fire‘s upcoming 12th season.

Another Wolf vet, Chicago P.D. co-creator and former showrunner Matt Olmstead, will serve as showrunner on Season 3 of FBI: International, which he originally had joined as executive producer.

The rest of the showrunners on the Chicago, FBI and Law & Order series are staying put with the exception of Law & Order: Organized Crime. As Deadline reported, Sean Jablonski stepped down as showrunner in March, the fourth showrunner to exit the NBC police procedural in a little over a year. At the time, SVU’s David Graziano stepped in to oversee the remaining three episodes of Season 3.

Now that the writers strike is over, Wolf Entertainment can complete the process of finding a permanent new showrunner. (Law & Order: Organized Crime was left off NBC’s original fall 2023 lineup, which was subsequently changed due to the strikes, so the series is on a slower track.)

Wolf Entertainment’s tenth scripted series, the upcoming On Call for Amazon Prime Video, shut down production during the writers strike. It is expected to resume filming after the end of the SAG-AFTRA work stoppage.

Here is a list of the rest of the Wolf Entertainment series which are opening their writers rooms this week with their returning showrunners.

Law & Order (season 23/NBC) – Rick Eid returns as showrunner
Law & Order: SVU (season 25/NBC) – David Graziano returns as showrunner
Chicago PD (season 11/NBC) – Gwen Sigan returns as showrunner
Chicago Med (season 9/NBC) – Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider return as showrunners
FBI (season 6/CBS) – Rick Eid returns as showrunner
FBI: Most Wanted (season 5/CBS) – David Hudgins returns as showrunner

All NBC series are produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. All CBS series are produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with CBS Studios. On Call is produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Amazon Studios.

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