When is Law & Order Season 24 back after the mid-season hiatus? Details explored 

Law and Order on NBC (image via Instagram/@nbclawandorder)
Law and Order on NBC (image via Instagram/@nbclawandorder)

Law & Order season twenty-four reached its fall finale on November 21, 2024. With the onset of the new year, Law & Order season twenty-four shall be returning to NBC with its midseason premiere on Thursday, January 16, 2025, at 8 PM ET.

The upcoming episode is titled Enemy of the State. It will hit the cable network the next day and be available on the network's streaming platform, Peacock. Meanwhile, fans of the NBC show can watch the previous episodes and seasons of Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on Peacock.

According to NBC, the official logline for the upcoming midseason premiere of Law & Order season twenty-four reads:

"Shaw and Riley discover a shocking motive after a young man is pushed in front of a train; when the trial hinges on a piece of legislation that Baxter wrote, Price must convince Baxter to testify to the legislation's uses and abuses."

The latest season of Law & Order kickstarted on Thursday, October 3, 2024, and featured the 27th Precint getting to know and work with their new lieutenant, Jessica Brady, played by Maura Tierney. Similarly, at the Manhattan District Attorney's office, Nicholas Baxter has assumed his position as the new D.A. Here's everything that we know.


Law & Order season 24 complete release schedule

As mentioned, the midseason premiere of Law & Order season twenty-four will air on Thursday, January 16, 2024. The full release schedule of the police procedural and legal show is as follows:

  • Episode 1 - Catch and Kill - October 3, 2024
  • Episode 2 - The Perfect Man - October 10, 2024
  • Episode 3 - Big Brother - October 17, 2024
  • Episode 4 - The Meaning of Life - October 24, 2024
  • Episode 5 - Report Card - October 31, 2024
  • Episode 6 - Time Will Tell - November 7, 2024
  • Episode 7 - Truth and Consequences - November 14, 2024
  • Episode 8 - Bad Apple - November 21, 2024
  • Episode 9 - Enemy of the State - January 16, 2025
  • Episode 10 - Greater Good - January 23, 2025
  • Episode 11 - The Hardest Thing - January 30, 2025

Rick Eid opens up about Law & Order season 24

In an exclusive interview with NBC Insider, showrunner Rick Eid shed light on the latest season. He remarked:

"Something we're sort of emphasizing this year is trying to learn more about some of our characters. It's still Dick Wolf's Law & Order, and there's still compelling, topical cases every week and ethical and moral dilemmas every week, but I think that we're trying, on certain episodes, to dig just a little bit deeper into who our people are and see how their personal lives intersect with their professional lives."

Eid further spoke with Give Me My Remote magazine and commented about the emergence of Jessica Brady:

"Brady comes in the first episode…as the new lieutenant [and] there’s definitely some friction, I’d say, between her and Detectives Riley and Shaw. It’s a new boss. She doesn’t know them. It’s a pretty high-profile case involving a prominent prosecutor, so she’s under a lot of pressure, and she’s trying to solve the case, and she doesn’t know the two detectives. And the two detectives don’t really know her.”

Law and Order season twenty-four midseason premiere drops on January 16 at 8 PM ET on NBC.

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