Warren Leight (Writer)

The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU

Go back to the beginning of television's longest-running primetime drama with behind-the-scenes footage, memorable scenes and exclusive interviews with the actors, creators and crew members.

Release Date2020-01-02

Charactersd Self

Vote Count6

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Release Date1999-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count36

Vote Count4270

Chicago P.D.

A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head-to-head with the city's street crimes and the Intelligence Unit that combats the city's major offenses - organized crime, drug trafficking, high profile murders and beyond.

Release Date2014-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Episode Count1

Vote Count2597

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.

Release Date2001-09-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count377

In Treatment

The intimate confines of psychotherapy sessions are seen from the perspective of a therapist and individual patients.

Release Date2008-01-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count184

CIA

When by-the-book FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman is loaned out to a clandestine CIA/FBI task force, he finds himself teamed up with secretive and roguish CIA case officer Colin Glass. Together they work covert operations in New York, uncovering international plots, terrorist cells, and geopolitical secrets.

Release Date2026-02-23

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count95

100 Centre Street

100 Centre Street is an American legal drama created by Sidney Lumet and starring Alan Arkin, Val Avery, Bobby Cannavale, Joel de la Fuente and Paula Devicq.

Release Date2001-01-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Lights Out

Lights Out is an American television boxing drama series from the FX network in the United States. It stars Holt McCallany as Patrick "Lights" Leary, a New Jersey native, and former heavyweight champion boxer who is considering a comeback. The series premiered on January 11, 2011 at 10 pm ET/PT. On March 24, 2011, FX announced the cancellation of the show. The final episode aired on April 5.

Release Date2011-01-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count23

Mother's Day

Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.

Release Date2010-09-23

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count465

Dear God

A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter office, he starts a Good Samaritan con by answering letters written to God. His seemingly virtuous work inspires his co-workers to do the same, but their good deeds are frowned upon by the postmaster general—and the cops.

Release Date1996-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count66

Me and Him

A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane.

Release Date1988-09-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenstory

Vote Count12

The Night We Never Met

Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their seperate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle.

Release Date1993-04-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count31

Mother's Day

Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim wits and their Maniac Mommy and the question becomes, can any of them escape, alive?

Release Date1980-09-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count153

Stuck on You!

A couple with marriage problems goes to Family Court, where a judge takes them back in time to view lovers through the ages.

Release Date1983-10-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count25