In addition to new episodes beginning in June, the show has been picked up for another season on USA Network — and there will be replays on NBC at some point. Full announcement after the jump.

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Here's the topper from NBC:

NBC will lawyer-up on Wednesday nights as the Emmy Award-winning "Law & Order" resumes with a two-hour season premiere event on Wednesday, January 2 (9-11 p.m. ET), and will continue on Wednesdays starting January 9 (10-11 p.m. ET) preceded by this season's network broadcast premiere of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (9-10 p.m. ET) in its return to NBC that night.

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I've been in the office most of the day, and last night's viewing is stuffed into a DVR at home. But while trying to find the top of my desk, I hit a USA Network episode of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." And I did see Monday's "How I Met Your Mother" and "Two and a Half Men" from my recordings, so I have a few thoughts there.

I also have a LOT of thoughts about the next two episodes of "Mad Men" — tomorrow night's and then the season finale — and am trying to decide what to say now and what to save until after you see the telecasts. That's a separate post, in any case, save for yet another recommendation that you tune in.

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The mothership and "SVU" stay on NBC, "Criminal Intent" goes to USA, with the announcement after the jump …

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In 2003, the first season of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" was released on DVD.  In 2004, the THIRD season was released on DVD, as part of a gimmicky release of what were then the most recently concluded seasons of all three "Law & Order" series. Now, finally, the second season will be released on DVD. Here's the announcement, with some comments following:

A brilliant and unconventional police detective burrows deep into the minds of criminals to solve brutal murders in Law & Order: Criminal Intent- Season Two, coming to DVD on December 12, 2006 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The critically acclaimed series from Emmy Award*-winning writer-producer Dick Wolf features Vincent D'Onofrio (Men in Black) as Detective Robert Goren, a brainy investigator with an uncanny knack for asking just the right questions. Kathryn Erbe ("Oz ") plays Watson to Goren's Holmes as his partner Alex Eames, with Jamey Sheridan (Syriana) as head of the NYPD's Major Case Squad, Captain James Deakins, and Courtney B. Vance as Manhattan District Attorney Ron Carver. The highly collectible five-disc set contains all 23 episodes of the show, as well as nearly a half-hour of deleted scenes that give viewers an even more up-close and personal look at the criminal justice system.

This probably does, and should, make fans crazy. But the release patterns for many shows make about as much sense as show business generally. Some shows have released only highlight sets, some have released first seasons but not the later ones (especially when the first-season DVD did not sell well).

Some shows still have not made it to DVD (I hear a lot from fans anxious for "Becker," "China Beach" and "WKRP in Cincinnati"), either because the distributors don't believe there's a big enough market or because of delays in putting the sets together. (Both "China Beach" and "WKRP" are apparently stalled by the cost and difficulties in music-licensing rights.) And some shows that lasted just one season still get a complete-series DVD — especially when they're fantasy or horror, targeting fans determined to be DVD completists.

I also received a copy of this episode and will post more notes once I have a chance to watch it…

A member of the Major Case Squad is kidnapped as "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" kicks off its sixth season in its new time period (Tuesday, Sept. 19, 9-10 p.m. ET/PT).  "Blind Spot" introduces Eric Bogosian as Captain Danny Ross  - who recently headed a successful three-year Joint Task Force on International Money Laundering and was subsequently promoted to the Major Case Squad.   

"This is a different CI this season — there will be politics and more at stake emotionally and personally for our detectives," says Warren Leight, Executive Producer and new show runner, "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."  "We'll see more character-oriented stories, we want to give characters a larger role going forward and see the affect and sense the toll this job takes on the officers.  Detective Goren isn't always going to be the smartest guy in the room anymore."

In this Tuesday's episode, when the body of a former Ambassador's daughter is found brutally murdered in her uptown home, Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) question a jealous ex-boyfriend.  But when another body shows up with a similar crime scene, Detective Goren's old mentor (guest star John Glover) and his daughter (guest star Martha Plimpton) suddenly return to warn of a past serial killer back on the loose.  The search gets personal as a member of the Major Case Squad is kidnapped.

Along with Captain Ross (Bogosian) "Law & Order: Criminal Intent's" sixth season features the addition of Detective Megan Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) as Detective Mike Logan's (Chris Noth) new partner.  Partners Logan and Wheeler form the Major Case Squad alongside long-time partners Detectives Goren and Eames, who will split the caseloads week to week.