Sometimes you have to love it when a major network like NBC messes up and cancels a show that becomes a hit when another network picks it up. Well, it’s easy to be smug about the cancellation providing another network actually does the picking up. In the case of Southland we’re elated that TNT had the foresight to recognize that intelligent viewers appreciate and value intelligent broadcasting and aren’t mere lemmings waiting to take the dive when they have to next sit through an airing of America’s Got Talent.Southland is a raw and authentic look at a police unit in Los Angeles (and don’t even try to compare it to Law & Order Los Angeles lest we laugh you right out of this site). This LA-set drama takes viewers inside (deep inside) the lives of the cops as well as the criminals and those surrounding them.It’s gritty, it’s real, and it’s raw. It’s not “formula” like Law & Order Los Angeles, with some critics comparing it to The Wire in its authenticity in relation to being one of “television’s finest cop dramas.”So, while it’s NBC’s short sighted loss that led to TNT’s success, we can only hope that the network doesn’t make a similar fatal error and cancel another one of their best shows currently on air Parenthood. But our money is on another more forward-looking network picking it up should NBC really make yet another fatal flaw in their decision making.Now if we could only talk TNT to optioning Showtime’s Huff. If anyone from TNT is taking note, consider this as a big hint. And for those of you reading who haven’t yet had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with the critically acclaimed Showtime series, we highly recommend you check the dark dramedy on DVD it’s well worth a look.