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The seventh season of ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' premiered on USA Network on October 4, 2007, and ended on August 24, 2008. The first ten episodes of the seventh season aired on Thursday night's at 10:00PM/9:00PM (Central), filling a slot previously occupied by the first season of ''Burn Notice''. The season then took a "fall finale" with the episode "Senseless," coinciding with the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike where show runner/executive producer Warren Leight and the rest of the writing staff participated in the work stoppage; the first ten episodes of the season being the only ones produced. The remaining twelve episodes resumed airing Sunday night's at 9:00PM/8:00PM (Central) leading in ''In Plain Sight'' starting June 8, 2008. ==Network change and production== During the 2006-2007 network TV season, both ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' and the original ''Law & Order'' series began to falter in the ratings on NBC; president at the time Jeff Zucker was in a telephone interview with creator Dick Wolf when he renewed both series, Mr. Zucker said the plan to move original episodes of ''Criminal Intent'' to USA Network, with the repeats then set to play "shortly thereafter" on NBC, represented "a new paradigm for network TV." Wolf said he was thrilled with the deal because "my stated goal has been to keep all three shows (''L&O'', ''CI'', & ''SVU'') up and running." Both the original series and ''Criminal Intent'' won full 22-episode orders, although most series for cable channels do not produce more than 13. Mr. Wolf said that he had found some budgetary savings to make the deal more viable, but that "none of them are going to be apparent to viewers." Chris Noth who portrayed Detective Mike Logan said on the move from network to cable; "Cable is probably the future. They're paying a lot more attention to (show ) than NBC did, frankly." Noth also believed the change would help the series differentiate itself from the rest of the franchise, saying, "We're happy to set ourselves apart." Vincent D'Onofrio who portrayed Detective Robert Goren said about the switch, "I feel like it saved the show." In an interview about his character, Eric Bogosian (who portrayed Captain Dainel Ross) thought about the move to USA, "We were one of whatever number of shows on NBC, we're getting numbers every week, we're knocking ourselves out to do the best we can, and I don't think we had one ad all season. To be on USA and have them embrace us and cheerlead us, we feel we deserve it. USA wants us to succeed. I just hope more people watch it and dig it." The theme music changed to that of the now defunct ''Law & Order: Trial by Jury''. Original episodes of season seven aired on USA Network until August 2008, with reruns on NBC beginning in January 2008. Production of the seventh season was interrupted by the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike when Executive Producer Warren Leight and the rest of the writing staff participated in the work stoppage. Only 10 of the 22 episodes ordered were produced pre-strike, while the remaining 12 episodes began airing June 8, 2008. In May 2008, before the remaining episodes returned, USA Network decided to renew ''Criminal Intent'' a sixteen-episode eighth season. Days after USA Network renewed the series, Warren Leight announced that he was departing the series, network president Bonnie Hammer in the midst of hammering out a new deal with Leight, under whose leadership, ''CI'' was the top drama series in basic cable primetime for the fourth quarter, more than doubling USA’s audience in the 10 p.m. Thursday slot from the same period the previous year. Leight departed at the end of the season to work on HBO's therapy drama, ''In Treatment''. During the eighth season, the duty of show runner was split between Walon Green (D'Onofrio/Erbe episodes) and Robert Nathan (Goldblum/Nicholson episodes) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 7)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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