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Southland lands on TNT while NBC continues to suck

griffn — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:00:12 +0000

Good news: Southland has survived its moronic cancellation by NBC and found a home on TNT. Bad news: It looks like we may only get six new episodes from now until the 2010 fall season.

TNT has picked up the critically acclaimed series SOUTHLAND, closing a deal with Warner Bros. Television that will bring the drama from Emmy^®-winning producer John Wells (ER, The West Wing) to the network in January. TNT has obtained exclusive rights to air all six episodes that have been shot for the second season, as well as the seven episodes from the series’ first season. SOUTHLAND will air on TNT Tuesdays at 10 p.m. (ET/PT), beginning with the first episode of the series on Jan. 12.

But the question is will TNT air the profanity that was too much for network television unbleeped?

Meanwhile, the dramas NBC did decide to keep are failing miserably. Trauma has already been cancelled and Mercy will probably be off the air by spring. And The Jay Leno Show continues to be a ratings black hole that drags down and destroys everything within its gravitational pull. Good.

Good Morning Forbes

negrostotle — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:00:09 +0000

I have many leather bound books.

Michele Beadle, of Sports Nation fame, parodies Brett Favre wrangler commercials during that show in which they set the Guiness record for mentioning the word “Favre”. If the rest of the show was this interesting (it wasn’t), I may have watched (I wouldn’t).

Darth Vader has a new girlfriend, and Luke isn’t happy about it.

The New York Times digs through Michelle Obama’s ancestry, all the way back to slavery, and seems surprised to find some white folks. Duh.

Again, the most important story you won’t read this week: Which countries secretly declared war on the U.S. dollar?

NBC continues to shoot itself in the foot by canceling it’s best new show Southland. Apparently, the execs saw the first few episodes of the new season and decided it’s too gritty for 9:00 p.m. And they can’t air it at 10:00 because Leno is too busy tanking in the ratings every night.

And the President of the United States Barack Obama just won the Nobel Peace Prize. That sound you hear is the Republican Party’s head exploding. They only celebrate when America loses.

Good Morning Forbes.