Mariska Hargitay attends the NBCUniversal Emmy luncheon at Avra in Beverly Hills, Calif. on April 22, 2026. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) A mini Mariska Hargitay marathon is coming to NBC.
Well, it’s actually a mini Law & Order: SVU marathon scheduled to hit the network on Sept. 10, but the selected episodes were handpicked and curated as a tribute to Hargitay ahead of her high-profile gig as the host of the 78th Emmy Awards.
Billed as a sort of “best of Mariska Hargitay” night, the three episodes from the SVU vault all garnered acting nominations for her work as Captain Olivia Benson, with one of them landing her the trophy as outstanding lead actress in a drama series. (Hargitay, who is an executive producer and sometimes director on the show, has been nominated eight times for her work on the long-running series.)
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The Sept. 10 schedule will open at 8 p.m. with “Charisma” (Emmy-nominated episode; originally aired Nov. 16, 2004), followed at 9 p.m. with “911” (Emmy-winning episode; originally aired Oct. 4, 2005) and closing at 10 p.m. with “Undercover” (Emmy-nominated episode; originally aired April 15, 2008).
“Charisma” centers on a career con artist, forger and thief who turns to murder and serial pedophilia to populate the cult he created and get his hands on a multimillion-dollar trust fund. “911” opens with a little girl who calls for help and claims she’s being held hostage. The SVU team then must keep her on the line to track down her whereabouts before it’s too late. Per its title “Undercover,” that episode finds Hargitay’s Benson going deep undercover in a correctional facility after a teenage girl says a corrections officer raped her and has also been threatening her mother in prison.
Hargitay as Olivia Benson on season 27 of Law & Order: SVU. Virginia Sherwood/NBC The mini marathon also comes ahead of Law & Order: SVU debuting its 28th season on NBC on Oct. 8. The show is due to surpass a milestone 600 episodes later this year. Produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Wolf Entertainment, the show is executive produced by Dick Wolf, Michele Fazekas, Hargitay, Ken Brown, Rebecca McGill, Anastasia Puglisi and Peter Jankowski.
Keeping it in the family, NBC is hosting the 78th Emmys live on Sept. 14 at 5 p.m. PT from the Peacock Theater at L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles. When it was announced that Hargitay had the gig fronting the telecast, she released a statement about the honor.
“Bringing important stories into the light has been the heartbeat of my career,” Hargitay said in a statement. “It’s my great honor to host the 78th Emmy Awards — in the 100th birthday year of my beloved NBC — and celebrate this extraordinary community of storytellers. Whether it’s an actor or a director, a costumer or a sound designer, we are all so privileged to take part in creating television that unites us. Regardless of how, where or when we watch, we are together in our laughter, our tears, our love of stories — and our delighted anticipation to see what happens next.”
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