NBC Officially Renews ‘Law & Order: SVU’ for Season 28

NBC has renewed Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for a 28th season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This means Olivia Benson and her team will be back for another year, and the show will continue its run as the longest-running live-action primetime drama series in American television history. The renewal was announced on April 16th.

Netflix’s The Residence Deserved The Knives Out Treatment

After Netflix secured the rights to continue the Benoit Blanc mysteries created by Rian Johnson, the films became known as the Knives Out series. Each new movie takes Blanc to a completely new location and presents him with a different murder to solve. As long as Daniel Craig wants to continue playing the charmingly Southern detective, Netflix can keep making and profiting from these “A Knives Out Mystery” films, potentially creating a long-running franchise.

Julio Torres’s Second Brain

The Julio Torres who was sitting next to me in his big bright Greenpoint studio is only sort of like that. He’s boyish but not at all naïve — he knows exactly what he is doing. He is so good at playing the wise fool that I realized that’s who I expected to meet. Julio Torres is “an unconscious construct,” he explained, when I asked the obvious question. “It’s like when you have a service job and you do your customer-service voice. ‘How’s everything tasting?’ That person’s not rehearsing in the mirror before they go to work. But they ask in a way that they have landed on so that the answer is ‘great.’ We all do it. There’s a version of ourselves that we put on when we go to work. My persona is as much of a persona as those.”

Final Fantasy XIV Patch 7.5 – Trail to the Heavens trailer showcased ahead of Part 1 launching April 28

As announced previously, Patch 7.5’s story will be released in two parts: the first on April 28th and the second in early September. This patch for Final Fantasy XIV includes new story quests, the third part of the Echoes of Vana’diel alliance raid series – Windurst: The Third Walk – as well as Normal and Extreme difficulties for the new Enuo trial, and more adventures with Hildibrand. You can watch the full English trailer below.

Star Wars Unveils Luke Skywalker & Boba Fett’s In-Canon First Meeting

Marvel is launching a new Star Wars comic series called Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge – Echoes of the Empire. Written by Ethan Sacks, who previously worked on the Galaxy’s Edge comic, and featuring art by Jethro Morales and Roi Mercado with cover art by Phil Noto, the story follows Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, and Chewbacca as they journey to Batuu seeking clues to Jabba the Hutt’s palace in order to rescue Han Solo (according to CBR). At the same time, Darth Vader is still searching for Luke, his son.