Southland Season

According to NBC Southland dvd takes a "raw and authentic look" at Los Angeles and the lives of the LAPD officers who police it. The show's seven-episode first season centers around the experiences and interactions of LAPD patrol officers and detectives and is less a police procedural than a character-driven drama. Among the characters are rookie Officer Ben Sherman and his training officer John Cooper; Detective Lydia Adams who must balance work with responsibility for her mother; Officer Chickie Brown who aspires to be the first woman on the elite SWAT Team; and Detective Sammy Bryant whose home life interferes with his working life.
We've seen some pretty boneheaded moves on television through the years: Kanye West, Nipplegate, Dan Rather hating on Steffi Graf, Tom Cruise on Oprah, Cop Rock, Ashley Simpson on Saturday Night Live, Roger Clemens on Capitol Hill, Sarah Palin with Katie Couric, Letterman hosting the Oscars, the Stanford band marching onto the field a little too soon (silly stupid tree!), My Mother the Car, the cancellation of The Brady Brides in 1981 ("It's a new life for two girls named Brady!")...
But nothing tops the giant blunder NBC made in late 2009, when the network opted to erase all scripted shows during the 10 p.m. timeslot in favor of running The Jay Leno Fiasco, a giant train wreck with a huge turd on top of it. We all know how that turned out, but lost in the media frenzy and late-night war of words was the biggest casualty of the experiment: Southland, the cop drama that NBC debuted in the Spring of 2009 one week after ER closed its doors. The two dramas have a lot in common (they even share a producer/director), and after a brief seven-episode run Southland season dvd boxset was picked up for a second season by NBC. The network began production on new episodes before--are you ready for this?--cancelling the show in the fall of 2010 before giving it any Season 2 air time, claiming it was too dark for its timeslot (which now would have been 9 p.m. thanks to stupid Jay Leno). The show was eventually picked up by TNT, which is currently airing the six episodes filmed for Season 2.