--- description: FBI Director James Comey said Thursday he allowed Law and Order creator Dick Wolf use his New York office for a TV series title: James Comey Approved a New FBI TV Series From Law and Order's Dick Wolf image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a56f660285c661c/6988c2b6656a3f7dd1bcf8c0/james-comey-fbi-director-documentary-dick-wolf.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [FBI](/tag/fbi/) ## FBI Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # James Comey Approves New FBI TV Series From _Law and Order's_ Dick Wolf by [Abigail Abrams](/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 13, 2017 11:21 PM CUT  Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey delivers the keynote remarks at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance Leadership Dinner March 29, 2017 in Alexandria, Virginia. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey delivers the keynote remarks at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance Leadership Dinner March 29, 2017 in Alexandria, Virginia.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images by [Abigail Abrams](/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 13, 2017 11:21 PM CUT FBI Director James Comey said Thursday he allowed _Law and Order_ creator Dick Wolf access to the bureau’s New York offices for a year to film a new TV series. The series won’t be part of the _Law and Order_ universe. Instead, it will be a documentary-style show called _Inside the FBI: New York_, according to [CBS News](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/comey-announces-fbi-cooperation-in-new-documentary-series/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=36499088 "undefined"). Wolf will produce the show with documentarian Marc Levin. Comey hopes the series will rehabilitate the FBI’s image, which has taken a beating over the past year. “We have to care what people think about us,” Comey told CBS. “The faith and confidence of the American people is the bedrock.” The FBI chief added that he worries people don’t understand the bureau. “We did a lot last year that confused people,” he said. In 2016, Comey and his bureau received [intense criticism](http://time.com/4550453/hillary-clinton-james-comey-fbi-emails/?iid=sr-link4 "undefined") for their handling of an investigation into [Hillary Clinton’s emails](http://time.com/4393372/james-comey-fbi-hillary-clinton-email-speech-transcript/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined") while she was Secretary of State, and for their announcement shortly before the election that potentially relevant emails were found on a device owned by the husband of Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin. Since Donald Trump’s election, the public has renewed its scrutiny of Comey as he deals with a [major investigation](http://time.com/4706720/james-comey-donald-trump-barack-obama-wiretap/?iid=sr-link5 "undefined") into potential ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. The new series filmed at the FBI offices from September 2015 until September 2016\. It captured the bureau’s response to events like the Paris terror attacks and the 2016 bombing in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4739494/fbi-james-comey-dick-wolf-tv-series/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4739494/fbi-james-comey-dick-wolf-tv-series/"},"headline":"James Comey Approves New FBI TV Series From Law and Order's Dick Wolf","datePublished":"2017-04-13T23:21:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T10:53:38.040Z","description":"The FBI hopes the series will fix its image","url":"https://time.com/4739494/fbi-james-comey-dick-wolf-tv-series/","keywords":["FBI","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a56f660285c661c/6988c2b6656a3f7dd1bcf8c0/james-comey-fbi-director-documentary-dick-wolf.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Abrams","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a56f660285c661c/6988c2b6656a3f7dd1bcf8c0/james-comey-fbi-director-documentary-dick-wolf.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"FBI Director Comey Discusses Counterterrorism And Cybersecurity At DC Dinner","caption":"FBI Director Comey Discusses Counterterrorism And Cybersecurity At DC Dinner","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/fbi/","name":"FBI"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4739494/fbi-james-comey-dick-wolf-tv-series/","name":"James Comey Approves New FBI TV Series From Law and Order's Dick Wolf"}}]}] ```