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'Southland' exec: 'Crimes are a backdrop'

The cast of Southland


Southland's executive producer Christopher Chulack has suggested that the show is more about the characters than the crimes.

TNT recently renewed the program for a fourth season, but Chulack told E! Online that he does not expect it to change too much.

"I don't think it'll be a whole new show," he said. "I think it'll hopefully be the natural evolution and delving in deeper into the characters."

Chulack explained that the crimes in the series are "a backdrop".

"The show is really just the study of these men and women who work on a police force in a city that is so spread out and diverse," he said. "The show is really about the human condition of the people who do this job.

"Sometimes it's a very dangerous job, and the show is about how it affects them as citizens, in their domestic and professional lives, and how they interact with their co-workers, how they interact with their families and their mates, and their spin on the world and how this job colors their world view. That's, to me, the essence of the show."

He added: "Southland is very real - it's not about who found the hair in the bed. There are procedural aspects to it, but it's not about that."

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