An NBC fall schedule that includes Conan O’Brien but not “Law & Order?”  Who’d have thought!  That’s because Conaco-produced “Outlaw” (formerly known as “Garza”) starring Jimmy Smits made it onto the schedule, albeit in an invisible timeslot, while “Law & Order” was officially given the axe.  Despite L&O going by the wayside, a new spin-off, “Law & Order: Los Angeles” made the schedule as expected.  That means Wednesdays will now include two full hours of L&O shows, with SVU being bumped back to 9 pm where it floundered last fall when Leno was acting as a ratings-suck in the 10 pm slot.  But hey, it’s NBC.  To their credit, they didn’t let the fact that they had five extra hours to fill stop them from canceling crap like “Mercy,” “Trauma,” and “Heroes.”  NBC programmers had but one season to make an impression on Comcast, so it was out with the old, in with the new.

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