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WHAT? I loved this show! And Jay Leno is bombing big time. I hope they can find a new network! Who can I complain to?
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I absolutely agree! NBC MUST be losing advertising dollars with the bombing of Jay Leno's show. I haven't been able to watch one whole show all the way through. It's boring re-hashing of the old show. Plus, it's the same premise EVERY NIGHT. BORING! NBC needs variety and Jay needs to go back to stand up or take his show back to 11:30 where it belongs.
NBC's excuse about the show being too racy for its 9pm time slot does NOT hold any water what with the TV ratings guiding viewers. The 8pm is family time and 10pm is hearty adult-time is silly now that there are a hundred channels, microchip protection, and TV ratings.
With that said, Hill Street was brilliant, but ER and this show are/were both terribly melodramtic. Southland felt like The Shield-lite. Perhaps the real issue is that the show is/was going to be released on DVD and orders fell short, so with mediocre ratings, a high cost per episode and no DVD sales, it probably didn't make sense for NBC to keep trying.
Maybe Direct TV will pick it up as they have several high class series [Eyes, The Nine, Smith for example] that were dumped.
I'm sure that if southland is a good show it will be picked up by someone else. Medium was snapped up by another network. If not there's always synidcation. I've always wondered how long it will be before the first direct to DVD TV series is released. It would be a first. Longer episodes and more freedom from censors to tell their stories. maybe something that makes a little more sense. You would need to keep the price resonable probably in the $50-100 range
what a dumb show!!!
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nbc is slowly going down the crapper this show might have helped them alittle they need all the help they can get
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I guess I am in the minority, but I think Jay Leno is wonderful. He is so funny, I'm laughing out loud. He is exposing to a wider audience some un-known comics who are really original...and funny. I didn't care for Southland.....I could not relate to those characters. There are so many good crime shows. That part of LA is not the majority of LA....it's certainly not representative of the Southland....not at all! Jay Leno is true talent...I cannot understand the mean comments about him. If you don't think he is funny you have no sense of humor.
I think NBC is very stupid to take this show off the air. Jay Leno is bombing and who needs another talk show. I now know why NBC is at the bottom of the ratings sheet cause they don't know when they have something good going.
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The reason why they don't want it on, and I am sure other networks will follow not renewing the show on another network is because, it is so much like the real cops in LA and how corupt they are and can be that they don't want the rest of the world to see it.
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I can not believe that NBC cancelled Southland! It was such a great show and I could not wait to see what happened after the season finale. They need to rethink their decision and drop the Jay Leno show!
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This is one of the best shows on TV...in part because it WAS intense and "real". There's always Dark Blue but it's not the same.
Because they HAVE to have Leno on at 10pm we can't have any "adult" dramas?
How stupid can you get?
Why don't they alternate Leno at 9 and 10 on different nights so we can GET some decent tv. Assuming anyone is watching him, any way.
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NBC exec's are idiont! Southland was one of the few shows I wathed on their netwok.Leno sucks! They are just too cheap to maintain a good drama... co I'ii stick to cable channels that have the guts to broadcast gritty, quality shows!
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They should move it play the same night as Sons of Anarchy...contact FX see if they will pick it up. Nothin like a corrupt biker club and police force on the same night! It is pretty sad that we wwatch more shows on FX, A&E and TNT....better shows by far than the big networks....maybe an NBC boycott should be started.
NBC has a habit of canceling all the great shows.
First Las vegas then Journeyman now Southland.
No wonder they are trying to sell the studio.
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No one really cares about Jay Leno - a 10PM talk show on a major network = stupidity on the network!
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I cannot believe NBC did this. I loved that show. I hope the show goes on cable or maybe HBO. That will keep the feel of the show real. It reminded me of Homicide: Life on The Streets. Which was a great show for network TV. But of course The Wire was even better. Which could have never been as great if it wasn't on HBO. I hope they don't waste time looking at CBS or ABC. They'll all just limit the realistic content of the show. Take it to cable!
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First the "LIFE" Series which by the way, was one of the best TV shows I ever saw.... now this ?? Just what the Heck are they thinking? There are some of us out there that ENJOY watching intense, realistic tv shows instead of all that so-called "reality" garbage that's out there !! NBC - are you trying to self-sabotage or what ?? Just sayin.......
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I couldn't agree with you more! Life was an awesome show, and NBC axed it. It seems like anything worth watching doesn't have a chance with that network. I would rather not turn the T.V. on than watch any one of those so called "reality shows", and I rarely tune in to only watch comedy. Give me a good drama any day. I guess I'll have to look elsewhere for good programing, since NBC doesn't seem to know what that is anymore.
Don't do it!!!!!! Please keep Southland on - it is a muture, entertaining, slice of America. It is a good show and needs time to catch its audience.
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