Southland Will Live: TNT Grabs the Cancelled NBC Police Drama 4.15K Richard Rushfield 11/02/09 11:28AM Filed to: Programming Programming Southland tnt Nbc john wells Defamer Just because NBC can't make it work, doesn't mean somebody can't. TNT, announced this morning they will pick up Southland, the critically acclaimed cop drama Executive Produced by ER's John Wells, which NBC cancelled a few weeks back.