Southland Mini Series on TNT – what?
Southland the tv show, formerly of NBC – now on TNT is a great show! It’s the best crime drama tv series out there. But what the hell is TNT doing with it?
It’s not much of a series – I’d say more like a mini series.
Mini Series have more episodes that what TNT did with this Southland show.
OK… this is what confuses me and gets my goat.
In February Ben McKenzie was doing the talk show circuit and says it’s back and the new Southland season starts on TNT with a premiere tonight.
Hmmm… that came out of nowhere, but hey – I liked the Southland show from it’s handful of episodes on NBC the year before.
I’m enthused it’s back on tv.
But wait… what is being called a season premiere is just a rerun of old Southland episodes already aired from last year on NBC.
It was NOT an actual season premiere… That made me wonder about what was going on…
So I kept waiting and watching to see if a new Southland episode hits and FINALLY like a month later they have a brand new episode.
Around March 2, 2010 Southland was back with fresh tv and a new episode. It was great! I was getting into it and looked forward to Southland each week.
BUT before you know it – here they are on TNT saying “here’s scenes from next week’s season finale of Southland”… Huh???
That’s crazy. It was barely on a month… maybe 4 or 5 fresh episodes at best and they’re announcing the season finale at the end of March???
The season finale of Southland aired on April 6, 2010… I guess. It did not feel like a season finale – just like the season did not feel like a full season…
Geez… no wonder traditional tv is suffering. They keep dicking us around.
It’s bad enough the networks cancel new shows before people even get to see them – but now they consider seasons to be 4 or 6 episodes long.
That’s just plain lame. They are hanging themselves with their own rope.
Shame on you TNT for messing with us like that with Southland. Do it right.
Mini Series on HBO have more episodes than what you are doing.
I just checked and this Southland tv show has had 13 episodes – 6 this year and 7 last year.
Give me a break!
More info and replays of Southland can be seen at:
TV GUIDE Southland Video Guide
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Comment by sl — April 17, 2010 @ 7:28 am