On May 14, 2010, NBC officially canceled "Law & Order", opting instead to pick up "Law & Order: Los Angeles" for a first season and renew "" for a twelfth. Creator Dick Wolf continued to pressure the series' producer NBC Universal to make a deal with TNT, which held syndication rights to the show, for a twenty-first season if an acceptable license fee could be bargained. Talks between the two started up after upfronts. However, TNT said in a statement it was not interested in picking the show up for a new season.