Recently, NBC’s Law & Order used a plot point that stemmed from all the Jon and Kate Gosselin drama. Their inspiration this week? David Letterman’s alleged extortion sex scandal!

NBC execs recently revealed to Access Hollywood they had actually started plotting a similar story at the time Letterman revealed the sexcapades that lead to his $2 million extortion plot by CBS producer Robert “Joe” Halderman.

“We were already working on a blackmail story that’s somewhat more violent,” Executive Producer Rene Balcer told Access in early October. “And who knows? This one may add a spin to the story we’re working on.”

According to a just-released casting notice, the episode will revolve around a well-known female celebrity talk show host who engaged in “a series of short-lived affairs with some of the employees on the show and up until now has managed to keep them off the radar.” Later, a blackmailer asks the host for $3 million.

The in-the-works episode does not have an air date yet.

Just last month, Halderman entered a not guilty plea to the extortion charges in New York City.

So bizarre that the off-the-wall story lines portrayed on Law and Order are beginning to stem from real life events!

This entry was posted on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 11:20 am
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