NBC's 'Law & Order: Organized Crime' hits the streets

Part of historic crossover with ‘Law & Order: SVU’

‘Good Girls’ brings the drama Sunday, March 7; ‘Manifest’ touches down April 1

Golden Globe nominee Jane Levy & ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’ shifts to Sundays, beginning March 28; ‘Ellen’s Game of Games’ moves to Sundays, starting March 7

NBC is reuniting two of the most popular members of the NYPD in TV history with a must-watch crossover that will serve as the launch of the anticipated new Dick Wolf drama, “Law & Order: Organized Crime.”

A two-hour television event set for Thursday, April 1, this crossover between “Law & Order: SVU” (9 p.m.) and “Law & Order: Organized Crime” (10 p.m.) will finally bring back together Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler, played by Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni.

In other scheduling news on the scripted side, “Good Girls” will make its season four premiere on Sunday, March 7 (10 p.m.), as Beth, Ruby and Annie get together once again as the stakes for everyone gets higher and higher.

“Manifest” is back for season three on Thursday, April 1 (8 p.m.), asking what happened to the passengers on Flight 828.

Newly crowned Golden Globe Award nominee Jane Levy and “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” is on a brief hiatus, but will return with a new date and time: Sundays at 9 p.m. beginning March 28.

And on the unscripted side, “Ellen’s Game of Games” will shift from Mondays to Sundays beginning March 7 (9 p.m.), before moving to 8 p.m. March 28.

"Law & Order: Organized Crime" episode "What Happens in Puglia": Pictured is Christopher Meloni as Det. Elliot Stabler. (NBC photo by Virginia Sherwood)

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In “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” Meloni, reprising his role as Elliot Stabler, returns to the NYPD to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss. Stabler will aim to rebuild his life as part of a new elite task force that is taking apart the city's most powerful criminal syndicates one by one.

The cast also features Dylan McDermott and Tamara Taylor.