TNT's Renews Police Drama 'Southland' May 4, 2012, 2:46 pm Good news for fans of realistic - by television standards, anyway - police dramas: TNT announced on Friday that it had ordered a fifth season of the critically praised but anemically rated "Southland." Ten new episodes will be produced, with the premiere scheduled for February. The street-level drama about Los Angeles cops and detectives, shot with hand-held cameras and marked by unexpected outbursts of violence or anarchic humor, averaged 1.8 million viewers during its fourth season, which ended in March. At that time TNT's programming chief, Michael Wright, told Amy Chozick of The New York Times that those were "not bad numbers but they're not good numbers." The network's lighter police procedurals "Rizzoli & Isles" and "The Closer" both average more than 6 million viewers. In announcing the fifth season, Mr. Wright said in a news release, "This year, the show has not only solidified its impassioned fan base, but also picked up some new young-adult devotees along the way." A TNT spokesman said that the show's four central cast members, Michael Cudlitz, Shawn Hatosy, Regina King and Ben McKenzie, would return for the new season.