NBC president Bob Greenblatt gave an interview today about some of the network’s decisions that have been made this past week. During the interview, he talks a little about Jennifer Love Hewitt and what her potential role in “Law & Order: SVU” would be.

TVLINE | With the news that you’re considering bringing in an actress — perhaps Jennifer Love Hewitt — to replace Mariska Hargitay halfway through Law & Order: SVU next season, is this confirmation that you believe there’s life in this show beyond Mariska and Chris Meloni?
I do believe that. Although, to clarify, this isn’t to replace Mariska. The idea is that we want to bring in somebody midway through the season alongside Mariska and Chris. Mariska’s deal is closed for [a 13th] season, so she’s not disappearing. Creatively, I think it will give [Benson] some competition, which I think will be interesting. And then we have to look at what a 14th season might require. Mariska just adopted a child. We don’t know yet if she wants to do the show for a Season 14, and we’re looking at options. Jennifer Love is somebody who we’ve been circling, but I don’t know that that is going to happen at all.

TVLINE | The word “replacement” was used because the new character would be introduced as Meloni’s new partner as Hargitay’s character moved into more of a supervisory role.
That creatively is the thinking. New showrunner Warren Leight is in the process of figuring all of that out. We’re trying to change it up and see if some new configurations could keet the show going for several more years.

TVLINE | Meloni’s deal for Season 13 isn’t done yet. Are you concerned?
I think we’re gonna be in pretty great shape with Chris.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt is no stranger to the red carpet, but gearing up for her first Golden Globes as a nominee is bringing out a whole new range of emotions.

“I’m super excited [and] very nervous, oddly enough,” Hewitt told PEOPLE at a W magazine party celebrating the Golden Globes Friday night. “I don’t get nervous, but I feel nervous. I’m really excited.”

Hewitt, who attended the party with her actor boyfriend Alex Beh, earned her first Globe nomination – best performance by an actress in a mini-series or a motion picture made for television – for her portrayal of a Texas physical therapist-turned prostitute in The Client List.

One thing the actress can feel relaxed about is her Golden Globes gown.

“I tried on like 20 dresses, and it was the one that each of the three times I went back, I put it on and it was the dress I stood up the straightest in,” she says. “I felt like, ‘Yeah, this is me, and this is my dress!’ ”

And Beh is a fan as well, according to Hewitt: “He saw a picture and he loves it,” she said.

The Ghost Whisperer star and her new man are “good” and “feeling good about where we are,” she says, shooting down the idea that they’re feeling pressure to take the next step in their relationship.

As for what makes them work as a couple, “friendship … is the best part,” Hewitt says. “We are good friends, and we have really good communication, oddly enough, because I’m not good at communicating in relationships [but] he’s teaching me.”

The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards, hosted by Ricky Gervais, will air live Jan. 16 on NBC at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

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Before she walks the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards in L.A. Sunday night, Jennifer Love Hewitt plans to take it easy.

“We’re going to go to coffee in the morning — that’s going to be exciting,” Hewitt told UsMagazine.com at the Art of Elysium Heaven Gala in L.A. Saturday. “We usually go to Coffee Bean so we’ll chill out there.”

Once she arrives back home, “I’m going to read magazines in the morning and just relax,” she said. “I actually have Us Weekly for tomorrow. I haven’t read the magazines this week, so I have them laid out for tomorrow.”

As she flips through this week’s issue — and learns all about how Taylor Swift got burned by ex Jake Gyllenhaal — her hair and makeup team is “going to show up and work their magic.”

And the 31-year-old actress — who earned her first Golden Globe nomination ever for her role in The Client List — tells Us she has high hopes for the night.

“I will be wearing earrings my mom gave me as a good luck charm, and I have a human good luck charm over here with me,” she said before pointing to current squeeze Alex Beh. “So that’s going to be good!”

“I’m nervous, but in a really good way. I’m nervous and excited,” she added. “I don’t want to miss a moment!”

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Jennifer Love Hewitt is in love — again. And she doesn’t care who knows it. Not one for staying quiet about her relationships, the 31-year-actress is gushing about actor/director Alex Beh, whom she met at a dinner party and has been dating for several months.

“We laugh a lot,” she told Us Weekly about the 27-year-old filmmaker. “He’s hilarious.” We’re happy that she’s happy, but is it too soon to be sharing?

Her last relationship with comedian and Ghost Whisperer costar Jamie Kennedy was “the happiest I’ve ever been” according to an interview she gave to People magazine last year. She even dedicated her 2010 self-help dating book to him “for being a great partner and my real truth. I love you.”

In the book, The Day I Shot Cupid – Hello, My Name is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I’m a Love-aholic, she expresses her frustration with being constantly labeled a serial dater. “It’s like a bad KICK ME sign on my back. What does it mean? That I date men and kill them? Yes, I have dated a lot, not on purpose, by the way. I would have loved to have met my soul mate in fourth grade and never looked back.”

She thought she found her soulmate in 2005 when she met Scottish actor Ross McCall. The couple dated for two years before getting engaged, but split a little more than a year later. Of that love connection she told People, “it’s the first time I’ve ever been in a relationship where you don’t have to try.”

But we hope this new relationship goes the distance. Ironically enough, Hewitt was first spotted showing off her new man at Dodge’s Rock and Roll Marathon in Los Angeles this past weekend where they ran in the race together. Whatever happens it will make for great material in her next book. That is if she doesn’t tell us about it first.

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UsMagazine.com first reported in July that Jennifer Love Hewitt was dating actor/director Alex Beh — and on Sunday, the two made their first public appearance together, participating in the Dodge Rock ‘n’ Roll Los Angeles Half Marathon.

“We’re crazy!” she joked to Us when asked why they decided to do the race together. “We are really excited about all the charities involved, and we heard the Rock ‘n’ Roll marathon was really fun and just sort of silly and a great way to stay in shape.”

Hewitt, 31, told Us she met Beh “through friends at a dinner party” after splitting with her Ghost Whisperer costar Jamie Kennedy.

What first attracted him? “Her eyes, her beauty,” Beh told Us.

“My running ability!” Hewitt then joked, prompting Beh to add, “Yes, her running ability! It was her eyes, and really, we just laugh the whole time.”

Added Hewitt, “We laugh a lot … he’s hilarious!”

Beh told Us that he has even read her relationship advice book, The Day I Shot Cupid, which Hewitt told Us she wrote because, “Everybody has been writing about my dating life forever. I decided it was time that I actually gave my own opinions on love and dating and all that stuff.”

Beh’s critique? “It’s very informative. I learned all I needed to know. When I first met her, I really was able to just map out all the things to do and not to do.”

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Jennifer Love Hewitt should start looking at awards show red carpet dresses now.

If all is right with the world, she’ll be nominated for her work as a rape victim in last week’s Law & Order: SVU…

“I think she will get an Emmy nomination,” L&O creator Dick Wolf told us this morning after his Los Angeles magazine Breakfast Conversation event at Kate Mantilini restaurant. “I think it’s one of the more amazing actor transformations that I’ve seen. She put herself onto a different level.”

We couldn’t agree more.

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After playing a prostitute in the Lifetime flick The Client List (premiering tonight), Jennifer Love Hewitt understands what drives some women to the sell their bodies.

Hewitt, 31, says her character in the movie — a mother and former small-town beauty queen — is left with no other choice.

“Her husband has been injured and out of work; her massage therapy job has been phased out; her kids need braces and their house is about to be foreclosed,” she said on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show Monday. “So she answers an ad in the paper for a massage therapy position.”

Initially, her character likes the attention.

But “very quickly, her life sort of goes on a downward spiral, and I think she realizes that there was probably more of the attention she was getting than she needed,” said the actress.

After doing the movie, Hewitt said she realized that the reason some women become prostitutes is “two-fold.” Not only is it helping them survive tough economic times, “it’s sort of helping them in their personal lives as well,” she said.

Some women might not be getting the sexual attention they need at home and “are kind of going out and going, ‘Well, we have needs just like men do, and if men can go out and get their needs met, we will too.’” she said. “It’s kind of crazy.”

On Saturday, UsMagazine.com spoke to Hewitt at the AZURE Luxury pool in the Palazzo Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

She called the role her “raciest part” yet.

What else is in the works for the actress?

“Nothing at the moment,” she told Us. “I’m working on some TV stuff, looking into some film stuff, everything like that. Not really sure where I’m going to land just yet.”

Anyone special?

“No, nobody special,” she told Us. “Just family. I’m single for the moment.”

From US Magazine