The best thing about Law & Order is they don’t pisswilly about with character development. It’s just plot, plot, plot — and what we learn about the characters rides on the back of this. 

Isn’t it amazing, then, that if you’re a  Law & Order fan that you become so fond of some of characters when we know very little about their personal lives.

I adore Jack McCoy and Lennie Briscoe and have a real soft spot for Adam Schiff  while Arthur Branch makes me laugh. Fred Thompson, the actor who plays Branch, I discovered recently, is in fact also a politician and was a US senator when he accepted the role. He even made a bid for 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Click here to have a look at his nomination website. 

And for a different view of Fred Thompson, watch this December 2008 video of him talking about the economy. I reckon the cigar-brandishing Thompson he would have given Obama a run his money in the charisma stakes:

Anyway,  I fell on the UK version of Law & Order last night on DSTV with delight. It was the second episode and follows the formula of the US one — which is good. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, I say, and Law & Order is the longest running American TV series in history.  The UK version was excellent and already I can see the older cop is going to become my favourite character.  If you haven’t seen it yet, here are the opening credits (duno about the music but they kept the clanging prison doors before the vocie over starts though you don’t hear them on this vid):

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