Austin’s own Benjamin McKenzie has made his return to your TV set. He is starring in the NBC cop drama Southland which premiered last week. McKenzie plays a rookie cop in the LAPD who is being trained by Veteran cop played by Michael Cudlitz.  To keep things simple the producers named McKenzie’s characeter Ben.  Southland has big shoes to fill after taking over ER’s thursday night time slot, and so far the reviews have been quite good for the cop drama, which also garnered strong rating for its premiere episode.  As for me, well I didn’t watch, as much as I love Ben McKenzie, cop drama’s just don’t do it for me.  I’m more into the show’s about troubled youth who become embroiled in the lives of a close-knit group of people in a wealthy upper-class neighborhood in California.  Hmmm…that premise sounds vaguely familiar.

Former Austin resident Benjamin Mckenzie returned to his hometown for the world premiere of his new film “Johnny Got his Gun.