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John Wells has worked on a lot of successful and critically acclaimed series throughout his career at Warner Bros. TV to date, including executive producing NBC's iconic medical drama ER, which ran for 15 seasons and more than 300 episodes, winning 23 Emmy Awards, and NBC's The West Wing, which ran for seven seasons…

EXCLUSIVE: Assassination Nation and Famous In Love star Bella Thorne is set to star in writer-director Joshua Caldwell's (Layover) crime feature Southland, about two young lovers who rob their way across the southland, posting their exploits to social media, and gaining fame and followers as a result. Colin Bates (Magg…

EXCLUSIVE: Shawn Hatosy, who’s set to do a guest arc on Amazon’s February debut series Bosch, has signed with MGMT Entertainment (née The Schiff Company) for management. The Faculty and Outside Providence thesp earned a Critics’ Choice nomination for his turn on the NBC/TNT police drama Southland and most recently…

It is the end of the road for Southland after five seasons, one on NBC and four on TNT. The critically praised cop show has been a source of pride for TNT brass who rescued the series after NBC dropped it before Season 2. “TNT has made the difficult decision not to renew Southland for another season,” the network said…

The two-hour second season finale of TNT‘s Dallas tonight promises to answer the question who killed J.R. But the bigger question is when TNT will decide the fate of its four winter original series, Dallas, drama Southland and docu-reality series Boston’s Finest, which end their seasons on Wednesday, and drama Monday M…

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Ruivivar (TNT’s Major Crimes) and Annie Monroe have landed major recurring roles on the upcoming fifth season of the TNT cop drama series Southland. Ruivivar, repped by Gersh and The Collective, has been cast in a season-long arc as Lucero, a veteran Los Angeles police officer and a Mexican American…

As part of its strategic expansion to year-round original programming, TNT is set to burn brightly this winter with a slate of six original series. The lineup includes the return of three hit dramas, a new season of one of the most acclaimed series on television and the premiere of a brand new medical drama from David…

The long-expected renewal of Southland was announced this morning in a message from TNT head of programming Michael Wright: TNT's Southland will return. I'm proud today to announce that TNT has ordered 10 episodes for a fifth season of Southland, scheduled to begin in February 2013. Season after season, critics and…

EXCLUSIVE: Detective Lydia Adams has found a new partner. Dorian Missick (The Cape) has joined the cast of TNT’s dark cop drama Southland as a recurring. He will play Ruben Robinson, Detective Lydia Adams' (Regina King) new partner beginning with the show’s fourth season premiere on January 17. Adams has gone through…

TNT has set its fall/winter schedule, which includes the continuation of the current seasons of The Closer, Rizzoli & Isles and Leverage, which all return with new episodes on Nov. 27/Nov. 28; the new season of Southland, which will kick off in January; and the first installment of the network’s new original movie…

This year's Emmy race for Outstanding Drama Series will continue cable's dominance in this most prestigious category. Cable claimed 10 of the 13 nomination spots over the past two years, and 13 of 19 since 2008. By contrast, cable earned a mere nine nods combined in the seven years between 2001 and 2007 when the…

TNT just announced that it has picked up drama pilot Perception to series with a 10-episode order and has renewed cop drama Southland for a fourth season, also with a 10-episode order. Perception, which will premiere next year, stars Eric McCormack as a neuroscientist who works to solve complex criminal cases. Also…