The Breakdown: NBC Thursday in 2023-24 (Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, Law and Order: Organized Crime and more!)

It's time for a journey through the NBC Thursday schedule in 2023-24...


fall

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2022-23	Law and Order		Law and Order	Law and Order: SVU		Law and Order: SVU	Law and Order: Organized Crime		Law and Order: Organized Crime	115
	2022-23	108		108	133		133	105			105	115
2023-24	Law and Order (R)		Law and Order (R)	Transplant		Transplant	Dateline		Dateline	54 (-53%)
	2023-24	60 (-45%)		59.9595661985958	44 (-67%)		44 (-67%)	57 (-45%)			57 (-45%)	53.6865453414764
VsAvg	-47%		-0.46602983415986	-65%		-0.649418584424502	-56%		-0.56470820311376	-56%
Rank	24/25		24/25	25/25		25/25	20/25		20/25	25/25

NBC brought back the Canadian medical drama Transplant, first used as schedule spackle during the COVID delays in fall 2020, for a similar role in the fall 2023 writers' strike landscape.

winter

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2022-23	Law and Order		Law and Order	Law and Order: SVU		Law and Order: SVU	Law and Order: Organized Crime		Law and Order: Organized Crime	127
	2022-23	119		119	148		148	115			115	127
2023-24	Law and Order		Law and Order	Law and Order: SVU		Law and Order: SVU	Law and Order: Organized Crime		Law and Order: Organized Crime	120 (-6%)
	2023-24	111 (-7%)		111.133847972489	143 (-4%)		143 (-4%)	105 (-8%)			105 (-8%)	119.626289583035
VsAvg	-3%		-0.0278122434882438	+15%		0.154645610356144	-17%		-0.165988468360135	-1%
Rank	10/25		10/25	8/25		8/25	10/25		10/25	8/25

The familiar Law and Order trio returned in January and began a season of modest declines, with the mothership and SVU each giving up their gains from a year ago.

spring

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2022-23	Law and Order		Law and Order	Law and Order: SVU		Law and Order: SVU	Law and Order: Organized Crime		Law and Order: Organized Crime	94
	2022-23	85		85	110		110	86			86	94
2023-24	Law and Order		Law and Order	Law and Order: SVU		Law and Order: SVU	Law and Order: Organized Crime		Law and Order: Organized Crime	90 (-4%)
	2023-24	87 (+2%)		86.5978036149264	107 (-3%)		107 (-3%)	75 (-13%)			75 (-13%)	89.6099011319673
VsAvg	-13%		-0.131843154220729	-10%		-0.0997047629309472	-39%		-0.389356881203753	-21%
Rank	9/25		9/25	13/25		13/25	18/25		18/25	13/25

In the spring, the Organized Crime spin-off really began to stick out as the weak link in the lineup, dropping more than a third of its SVU lead-in on several occasions.

Rating the Ratings

Name	Lo	Avg	Hi	y2y	Plus	Label	Plusy2y	Results
Law and Order*	0.3	0.37	0.5	-18%	98	marginal	-7%	detail
Law and Order: SVU*	0.3	0.47	0.6	-16%	124	solid	-5%	detail
Dateline Thu*	0.2	0.22	0.3		57	flop		detail
Law and Order: Organized Crime	0.2	0.34	0.5	-24%	89	marginal	-15%	detail

Law and Order: Similar to the Chicago trio on Wednesday, the L&O Thursday mostly had modest declines, but nothing to really worry about. Grade: C+.

Law and Order: SVU: See above. Grade: C+.

Law and Order: Organized Crime: This show missed out on an early renewal in late March alongside the other two and became a bit of an eyesore relatively speaking in the spring ratings, bottoming out with a mere 0.22 on May 2nd. Eventually the network settled on a move to Peacock, and sophomore Found will get a crack at the post-SVU slot next season. Grade: C-.

The names in this last table link to the shows' War of 18-49 pages. Links with an asterisk(*) have been updated with the new info. Updates to younger shows will come later in the summer.

Previous Breakdowns for NBC Thursday: 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23

Here's the now updated Schedules Plus for NBC Thursday.