Fall TV Blog

Robin Williams has signed on to guest star in the 200th episode of Law & Order: SVU, PEOPLE has confirmed.

The show, scheduled to air April 29, will have the comedian playing the dramatic role of Merritt Rook, an engineer whose life takes a profound turn after a dramatic loss. While the script is still in the works, word is that Williams winds up in quite the cat-and-mouse chase with Mariska Hargitay’s Det. Olivia Benson and Chris Meloni’s Det. Elliot Stabler.
–Mark Dagostino

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She may be married in real life, but Mariska Hargitay is about to get something she’s never had in her fictional life as Det. Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU — a boyfriend!

PEOPLE has confirmed exclusively that Hargitay’s boyfriend will be played by big-screen actor Bill Pullman (who played an alien-killing President of the United States in 1997’s Independence Day).

Executive Producer Dr. Neal Baer says, “Det. Olivia Benson finally has a boyfriend, and he was well worth the wait.”

In this rare look into the love life of any character in all three of the Law & Order series, Pullman will be playing Kurt Moss, the editor of fictional New York newspaper The Ledger. The episode, entitled “Closet,” is about a gay pro football player who’s forced out of the closet after being tied to a rape and murder case. (Juicy!)

Airing April 22, it will be the second new episode after the series returns from the writers’ strike.

Pullman starts filming next week. –Mark Dagostino

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