Here's a tantalizing look at Aaron Sorkin's new drama "Newsroom," coming to HBO June 24. It looks great. My only note to Sorkin: more Sam Waterston, please. Thanks.

With the cancellation of "Law & Order" I've been doing a little reflecting on one of the coolest days of my life: the day in 1997 when I got to roam around the "Law & Order" set in New York, completely unattended, and watch Sam Waterston film a scene with Steven Hill.

That's me sitting at Jack McCoy's desk, holding a fake glass of scotch.

Tonight's series finale of the 20-year-old "Law & Order" felt different from the opening chung-chung.

"Law & Order" fans know that with few exceptions, the show follows a certain structure and opens with the discovery of a dead body or at least a crime in progress. Then detectives show up to assess the situation, one of them makes a snappy quip (Lennie was the best at that), and they search for the perp. There are twists and turns along the way.

But on this last night there was no dead body, so no murder to solve. Instead, we follow the detectives and DAs as they work together to try to stop a crime from occurring. Their search for an anonymous blogger planning to blow up an unnamed local school takes some of the usual twists and turns, but finally leads them to an office building where New York City teachers accused of wrongdoing sit all day, every day, in a kind of purgatory awaiting judgment. And yes, that part is ripped from the headlines.

The American Bar Association recently tackled the weighty question of which is the best TV show ever made about lawyers. After (allegedly) careful deliberations, their answer was "LA Law."

You know, the slick 80s show where Michael Kuzak (Harry Hamlin) dressed like a gorilla to romance Grace Van Owen  (Susan Dey), and Arnold Becker (Corbin Bernsen) bedded every rich, good-looking woman he could reach (this was back when he had hair), and Victor Sifuentes (Jimmy Smits) had the steamy affair with Grace (after she left Michael). And then there was Douglas and his sex therapist and Stuart trying to master the Venus Butterfly... Did they practice law on this show? Wasn't it more like the "Grey's Anatomy" of legal shows?

We don't necessarily agree with their pick. Do you?