Benjamin-Mckenzie.France has posted HQ photos from the shooting set on the 3rd Nov.

You can see more photos in http://www.benjamin-mckenzie.fr/Photos/thumbnails.php?album=101

Thank you so much, Benjamin-Mckenzie.France!!

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Kevin Alejandro shared off the screen photos with us on his facebook. Thank you so much, Kevin!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=663903972#!/album.php?aid=298203&id=663903972

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Michael Cudlitz, Shawn, Kevin and Michael McGrady posted this photo on their twitter and facebook.

Michael Cudlitz facebook

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So great to be back on set. Episodes are going great. Tomorrow night we work late. (Almost) …………. every member of the cast will be on the same set at the same time. Gonna be a blast. (continue reading…)

By Alexandra Sparco

She might not receive nearly as much screen time as the rest of the characters, but that doesn’t mean Officer Chickie Brown (Arija Bareikis) isn’t worthy of such treatment.

In fact, while many other SouthLAnd fans say that Cooper (Michael Cudlitz), Sherman (Ben McKenzie), or Lydia (Regina King) are their favorites – Chickie has always been mine.

The small bit in “Unknown Trouble” (the series pilot) where it was said that Chickie wanted to join S.W.A.T. is what first drew me into the character. As soon as I heard that bit of info, I knew it was a character I would grow to like, as she had aspirations – she knew what she wanted to do, and where she wanted to end up. Her calm, cool, and collected demeanor also contrasted perfectly with the brash, Alcoholic, man-child partner Officer Billy Dewey (recurring guest C. Thomas Howell). Although she waited an awful long time to turn Dewey in for his actions, the fact that she was still willing to do so to a person she had grown to trust (in certain aspects) is still commendable. (continue reading…)

Last week I had the privilege of speaking with SouthLAnd‘s own Arija Bareikis (pronounced Ar-ee-yuh), Officer Chickie Brown. It almost seemed as if the interview as doomed to failure, as the original interview was plagued with a bad phone line that canceled the interview on Wednesday after 3 failed attempts to start the call. Thankfully Arija was very gracious with her time and rescheduled for the next day.

Graciousness is the overall theme of this interview – in fact, the entire 30+ minute that I spent speaking with this wonderful lady. Soft spoken, intelligent, laughter always just under the surface – often bursting through – this was one interview that was more like a conversation between friends than an an interview between celebrity and fan. For that, I will be eternal grateful to Arija. While words on the page cannot convey the same tone of voice and emotions and the spoken word can, hopefully fans will get a sense of that conversation from what is written here.

Arija Bareikis as Officer Chickie Brown

SouthlandTvFans.com [STF]
At the very beginning of the show Chickie had aspirations for being in the SWAT team. Do we have any idea if that’s still something that she wants to do?

Arija Bareikis [AB]
I think so and I hope so. That was the story line I was really excited about. That and surfing. So I hope so. we’ll see what happens if we’re lucky enough to get the opportunity to keep the story going. I think it would be really exciting to see somebody come back from a place that seems less than excellent to more than excellent.

[STF]
We notice that all of the other characters, of the 8 main ensemble characters, we seem to have gotten some peek into their private lives, but we haven’t really seen anything of Chickie’s.

[AB]
Well, you did see a scene, I think just one scene with my son. So Chickie has a son who is probably about 13 and she’s a single mom, as far as we know. I’ve come up with an elaborate back story that works for me, but I don’t know what’s going to happen and I’m so excited to find out.

[STF]
We’re all feeling pretty confident, and I know we got the ratings numbers for this week and it stayed pretty consistent with last week.

[AB]
Oh, we did, I’m so happy to hear that. I had no idea.

[STF]
I haven’t seen the exact numbers myself yet, because I was so busy yesterday, but I understand they were pretty consistent about 2.3 million.

[AB]
All right.

[STF]
We’re happy with it, and I know the DVR numbers are coming out consistent increase about 40% above live.

[AB]
Isn’t it so funny now, there’s all these different ways that things have to be looked at that are not the way they were done before. It’s so amazing, isn’t it?

[STF]
Well I know the fans are confident, I’m confident. (continue reading…)