Shawn Hatosy to Get Reckless on CBS
The future of Southland is in the air this week, following two of the show's stars signing on for new projects.
First, Benjamin McKenzie took a role on CBS' The Advocates. On that series, he will play an ex-con who teams up with a female attorney to fight for the underdog.
Now, Deadline confirms that Shawn Hatosy will star in Reckless, a Charleston, South Carolina-based drama that centers on two lawyers who must hide their attraction for each other while clashing over a police sex scandal.
Hatosy will play a detective on the pilot.
Both projects are in "second position" for McKenzie and Hatosy, meaning they will return to Southland if TNT orders a sixth season.
But this certainly isn't a positive sign for that series, which has only been averaging 1.3 million viewers in 2013.
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SouthLAnd lost something, along with Kevin Alejandro and a few of the other actors who have left the series, I think :(..and, giving Lydia a child was a bad move. I don't believe that people are tuning in to listen to her woes with balancing her career with her kid--they are tuning in for the looniness the cops deal with, more than anything, IMO.