The NBC schedule that comes out of the Winter Olympics next month will look a good deal different from the one the network has used thus far this season.

Three new series, plus a new “Apprentice” and a weekly edition of the surprise hit game show “Deal or No Deal,” will join the Peacock’s lineup starting Feb. 27, the day after the Olympics end. The biggest changes come on Monday, with “Deal or No Deal” and “The Apprentice” taking up the first two hours of the night, and Friday, which gets a relocated “Las Vegas” at 9 p.m. EST at the new Dick Wolf drama “Conviction” at 10.

Additionally, “Law & Order” will move out of the 10 p.m. Wednesday spot, its home seemingly since time immemorial, to make room for the new series “Heist.” “L&O” will slide back to 9 p.m. for the remainder of the season, where it will have to square off against extremely tough competition in the “American Idol” results show on Fox, ABC’s “Lost” and CBS’ “Criminal Minds.”

“We are not going to slip quietly into spring,” NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly says. “With these exciting new shows in our reconfigured schedule, we will be very competitive – and given the promotional momentum of the Olympics, we can give these promising shows the launch they deserve.”

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“Deal or No Deal” will lead off the post-Olympic schedule with a week of nightly runs on Feb. 27. Following that, it will air weekly at 8 p.m. Mondays starting March 6 (“Surface” ends its season prior to the Olympics). The fifth installment of “The Apprentice” makes the move to Monday as well, while “Medium” stays put at 10.

With “The Apprentice” moving to Mondays, NBC has shipped “Las Vegas” to Friday with the hope of reinvigorating a night it used to dominate but has let slide in recent seasons. It will lead into “Conviction,” which follows the professional and personal lives of young assistant district attorneys in New York. (The edition of “Dateline” that once aired on Friday moves to Saturdays.)

Finally, “The Office” will end its season at the end of March to allow star Steve Carell to head to work on the movie “Evan Almighty” for NBC sibling Universal Pictures. “Teachers,” a comedy about middle-school teachers from “Scrubs” writer-producer Matt Tarses, will fill that spot for six weeks beginning April 6.