variety.com - 11/2/2009
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L.A. cop drama will air Tuesdays at 10 p.m. It's a done deal: TNT has picked up "Southland." Turner cabler has bought the L.A. cop drama from Warner Bros. Television after NBC decided to cancel the show last month. Agreement had been close for days but pact is now official and TNT purchased both ...
tvovermind.com - 11/2/2009
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In early October we reported that NBC had
canceled Southland and pulled the plug on airing the...
six episodes that had already been produced. Rumors soon started swirling that TNT would pick up the critically-acclaimed show. We now have official confirmation that TNT has indeed picked up ...
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Southland Officially Picked Up by TNT
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Variety has the news that Southland, the canceled-before-a-single-episode-of-its-second-season-aired-on-NBC cop drama, has found a new home: TNT. The details: Turner cabler has bought the L.A. cop drama from Warner Bros. Television after NBC decided to cancel the show last month. Agreement had been close for days but pact is now official and TNT purchased both the seven episodes leftover from last season that never ran as well as the six episodes that were shot over the past few months. That's good news for fans of the show, which had a promising, if decidedly short of spectacular, run last spring, its verite camerawork and interesting characters ...
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... the viewership of a year ago, and now its 11:30 host must once again watch his back against his network teammate. The one thing that can be said in this whole arrangement's favor is that NBC getting out of the drama business is probably a great thing for NBC and, certainly a great thing for America. It may not be a law of nature that the big networks are incapable of launching decent dramas, but it certainly looks that way at the moment, and extra-certainly does so for NBC which just surrendered the acclaimed ...
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Critically-acclaimed-yet-cancelled "Southland" has been picked up by cable channel TNT. TNT released a statement confirming that they have closed a deal to bring "Southland" to their network in January. The program was dropped from NBC's lineup ...
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TV News: Cabler makes it official with NBC castoff -- TNT has finalized the worst-kept secret in television, picking up a run of the discarded NBC cop drama "Southland."
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