Law & Order: Officially canceled. (SVU and the D'Onofrio-gutted CI remain, and the L.A. spinoff of the franchise, groan, debuts this fall.) I'm going to start the "Let's Blame Jay Leno" backlash right here! Who's with me?

The NBC workhorse "Law & Order" has a history with the music business, having lightly fictionalized such pop phenomena as Diddy, Kevin Federline, and crappy East Village punk bands during its storied tenure. Last night, inspired by a grisly crime last year that was dubbed "the horrocore murders," the Juggalo subculture finally came under Dick Wolf's microscope.

Has NBC brought the gavel down on the original-formula Law & Order after 20 seasons of telling the stories of the police who investigate crimes and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders? Nikki Finke's site is saying yes! This is terrible if it's true — not because of the dumb "longest-running show ever" record that Dick Wolf was trying to set (if the cancellation goes through it'll have tied Gunsmoke in longevity) but because the show was just starting to get really good again in both quality of acting and tightness of storylines after a bunch of seasons suffering through the morass of bad plotlines and even worse [...]

No one currently under the legal drinking age in the United States has ever lived in a world where "Law & Order" was not on TV. That will continue to be the case, probably FOREVER.