Southland
TNT has renewed Southland for a 10-episode fifth season, the network announced on Friday.
"Season after season, critics and fans alike have championed TNT's Southland as one of television's best dramas.This year, the show has not only solidified its impassioned fan base, but also picked up some new young-adult devotees along the way," TNT President Michael Wright said.
Fall 2012 TV Scorecard: Which Shows Are Returning? Which Aren't?
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Bruce Greenwood, Eloise Mumford, Joe Anderson
A mere two nights after The Walking Dead finale shattered cable ratings records, and more than a few nerves, with its zombie shooting gallery at Hershel's now-abandoned farm, two more dynamic series signed off for the season Tuesday night — hopefully not for good (though one seems a likely goner) — giving us some fun and tense times. Sometimes both at once.
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The Help, Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis
After sweeping the Screen Actors Guild awards in January, The Help came out triumphant once again at the 43rd annual NAACP Image Awards on Friday.
The Help stars Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, who are both nominated for Oscars, took home awards for...
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Joe Anderson
If the notion of getting "Lost in the Amazon" and finding yourself in a weekly horror movie has any appeal, then by all means set your compass for ABC's The River, the most exciting thing to happen to TV's midseason since, well, Monday's premiere of Smash on NBC. If Smash is a show-stopper, The River is a terrifying heart-stopper, a cleverly cinematic supernatural adventure that takes us on a wild ride into an exotic heart of darkness. (It opens with back-to-back episodes Tuesday at 9/8c, and the second hour is even scarier than the first.)
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Michael Cudlitz, Lucy Liu
Things will look a little different this season on Southland.
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Marla Gibbs, Regina King
Regina King was just 14 when she started playing Brenda, the smart, sassy daughter of Marla Gibbs' Mary Jenkins on the NBC sitcom 227. Two decades later, King is taking care of 80-year-old Gibbs in the January 24 episode of TNT's Southland.
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Marla Gibbs
It's a 227 reunion! Marla Gibbs will guest-star in an upcoming episode of procedural drama Southland, alongside 227 co-star Regina King. (Now, where's Jackee?)
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Lou Diamond Phillips
Lou Diamond Phillips will guest-star on the Season 4 premiere of TNT's Southland, TVGuide.com has learned.
Southland recruits Lucy Liu for Season 4
The former NUMB3RS and Stargate Atlantis star will play Danny Ferguson, a physically intimidating beat cop who is deeply cynical about law enforcement. His views cause more than a little tension with Ben (Benjamin McKenzie) and Sammy (Shawn Hatosy), but when the time comes to put up or shut up, Ferguson proves to be an exceptional officer...
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Dorian Missick
Dorian Missick is joining Southland as the new partner of Det. Lydia Adams (Regina King), a show rep confirms.
Missick, 35, will recur as Ruben Robinson, a tough but intelligent and thoughtful detective trainee who is "smitten" with Lydia and eager to...
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Chris Brown
If the words "romantic" and "comedy" don't cross your mind when you think of Chris Brown (and who could blame you if they don't?), get ready to have your worldview shaken. The regularly furious singer has been cast in the upcoming romcom Think Like a Man, according to Us Weekly...
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