As promised, since the fans responded and at least 75,000 people became a “fan” of SouthLAnd on Facebook by the deadline, TNT will be hosting a live online chat with the cast of the show immediately following the premiere of Season 2 Episode 1, “Phase Three”!

The chat will be online at 11pm Eastern, 8pm Pacific. You can access the chat from the SouthLAnd Facebook Fan Page at http://www.facebook.com/southland, or you can go directly to the TNT website at http://www.tnt.tv/title/display/?oid=53840

“Phase Three” is the first of 6 never before seen episodes of the show that were produced before the show was canceled by NBC immediately before its scheduled return last fall. To date, ratings have been (based on all reports that I’ve seen) “good” and TNT has been “happy”, but we really need to blow them out of the water now to ensure that new episodes are ordered! Make sure you are watching this show! Tell everyone you know about SouthLAnd – friends, family, neighbors, coworkers – EVERYONE! Even more important, if you know anyone at all that is a “Nielsen Family”, make sure THEY are watching, so their numbers get counted “officially”.

If you have never seen SouthLAnd before, then now is the perfect time for you. TNT will be airing a marathon of the first 7 episodes of the show immediately before the Season 2 premiere, starting at 3pm Easter, 2pm Central. Now is the chance to catch up on what you have been missing!

If you are already a fan, you absolutely do not want to miss “Phase Three”! Trust me – I was privileged to see this episode at an advanced screening in Los Angeles in January and it will leave you breathless! We will have a full recap and review here on the site after the airing (with time for the West Coast viewers to see it, too), but until then, you can check out a special preview courtesy of TNT right here: