Law & Order: SVU to tackle Weinstein saga (sort of)

In an upcoming “ripped from the headlines” episode Law & Order: SVU plans to dramatise elements from the Harvey Weinstein fallout.

But it won’t take place in the movie industry but the airline industry. Scaredy-cats…

“We are hitting Harvey Weinstein head-on, but it’s not in the realm of the entertainment business,” executive producer Michael Chernuchin told EW. “It’s a real important episode about the rape culture in an industry, and we wanted to try stretch the law to criminalise that sort of environment.

“We were actually working on a story about airline pilots and what a boys club that is,” Chernuchin says. “We were beating the story out and said, ‘Wow, this is exactly what the actresses go through in Hollywood. It’s the same environment.’ So we got all of our Harvey stuff out with airline pilots.”

The episode is due to air in 2018.