NBC has moved the airdate for a Law & Order: SVU episode guest-starring convicted rapist Mike Tyson up a week, to Feb. 6, lest it fall the day before One Billion Rising, a nationwide event protesting rape and other violence against women.
The casting of Tyson -- who in 1992 was convicted of raping an 18-year-old Miss Black American pageant contestant, and served three years (of a six-year sentence) in prison for the crime -- spurred controversy from the get-go, eliciting at least one petition to have his role recast.
Either this was done due to the sensitivity of the what One Billion Rising stands for or they didn't want this episode's ratings to be affected on that day. Whichever good choice.
