Law & Order/Adrienne Shelly: Oh No They Didn't
Oh no they didn't.
But you knew they would. NBC's LAW & ORDER has indeed based an upcoming episode on the murder of director/writer/actress Adrienne Shelly.
Her alleged killer, 19 year old Diego Pillco, goes on trial later this year.
John Freeman Gill of the New York Times visited the set while the show was in production, spoke to producer Dick Wolf, director Jean de Segonzac and cast members.
"The story had all the earmarks of drama and sensationalism that make a successful “Law & Order” episode, and Dick Wolf, the creator of the show and its sister series, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” was hardly the only one to take notice. The morning the faked-suicide story broke, three people, including Mr. Wolf’s barber and the counterman who poured his coffee at Dean & DeLuca, brought the story to his attention as material for a new episode.“It just screams it,” said Mr. Wolf, who reads a half-dozen newspapers a day, in part to stimulate story ideas."
Here's the rest of story; the episode airs Friday at 10pm on NBC.