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Canadian producer Tassie Cameron\u2019s last show was the entertaining comedic cop series Pretty Hard Cases<\/a>.<\/em> Cameron is back this season once again working with the police in a spinoff of mega producer Dick Wolf<\/a>\u2018s Law & Order<\/em><\/a> franchise, arguably the most familiar title in TV cop series worldwide. Titled Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent<\/em><\/a>, the new show airing on The CW is inspired by the similarly titled profiler show that featured two talented detectives (played by Vincent D\u2019Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe<\/a>) on New York\u2019s Major Case Squad and ran for 10 seasons.<\/p>\n In this iteration, Canadian actor Aden Young<\/a> and Kathleen Munroe<\/a> play partners Det. Sergeant Henry Graff, who never misses a clue, and talented but more compassionate Det. Sergeant Frankie Bateman. The series is a huge hit in Canada, winning Best Drama Series and Best Writing in a Drama Series at the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards .<\/p>\n Its storyline follows the original show pretty closely with some necessitated changes like a Crown Prosecutor instead of a District Attorney working on cases, and the elite team now called the Specialized Criminal Investigations Unit, rather than NYC\u2019s Major Crimes Unit. Like its predecessor, says Cameron, the SCU \u201cdeals with homicides very high profile or too tough for other detectives to solve.\u201d<\/p>\n With strong leads and complex crimes, L&O Toronto: Criminal Intent<\/em> is faring well here so far. Three seasons have already been shot, with The CW confirming that Season 2 will air in 2026.<\/p>\n Below, TV Insider talks to Tassie Cameron about this first season and previews the November 12 episode, \u201cThe Sound of Silence.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n How did Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent<\/em> come about and what is the heart of the show?<\/strong><\/p>\n Tassie Cameron:<\/strong>\u00a0The Canadian network Rogers airs all the Law & Order<\/em> originals out of the U.S. and has great success with them. They started exploring with Universal and the Wolf team the idea of doing an original Canadian Law & Order<\/em> up here and Criminal Intent<\/em> was the format that they landed on as the right one to try in Canada. As you know, Criminal Intent<\/em>\u2018s format is different from the other series in that it goes into the bad guy\u2019s point of view throughout the course of the episode. And so it is more of a psychological profile of the people behind the crime and more cat and mouse between the detectives and the criminals. Because you\u2019re seeing the criminal\u2019s point of view, I would say at its heart it is a Sherlock Holmes format. We\u2019re trying to give enough clues and insight so that the audience can play along with our detectives as they figure it out.<\/p>\n