NBC Saves "Law & Order," "Lights" and "Scrubs"

NBC has renewed “Law & Order” for an 18th season. “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” will move to USA for new episodes, with encore plays on NBC. USA is part of the NBC Universal family…

This comes on the heels of NBC’s renewals of critical favorite “Friday Night Lights” and a final season of “Scrubs.”

NBC has cancelled “Studio 60” (which is scheduled to air its final episodes beginning May 24th) and “The Black Donnellys.” Also on the chopping block is “Crossing Jordan,” which had appeared poised for survival…

NBC has also announced the pickups of five new dramas for fall: “Bionic Woman,” a 21st-century remake of the 1970s series starring Michelle Ryan and Katee Sackhoff (“Battlestar Galactica”); “Journeyman,” about a happily married journalist who begins to travel through time; “Chuck,” the show created by Josh Schwartz (“The O.C.”) and executive produced by McG about a reluctant government agent; “Life,” a drama about a cop who returns to his job after being wrongly imprisoned for murder; and “Lipstick Jungle,” based on the Candace Bushnell (“Sex and the City”) book by the same name and starring Brooke Shields and Kim Raver.

NBC will announce its official schedule Monday…