Hollywood Backlot - ‘Southland’ TV Series

Actors Shawn Hatosy, second from left, and Ben McKenzie, right, listen to director J. Michael Muro, left.   (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Actor Cle Sloan listens to director J. Michael Muro.   (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Actor Ben McKenzie is touched up before shooting a scene.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Actor Shawn Hatosy took to a prop skateboard to pass the time between scenes.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Wigs are adjusted on dummies representing actors Ben McKenzie, left and Shawn Hatosy.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

An SUV is crashed into a police car as part of an action sequence.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Ben McKenzie, right, and Shawn Hatosy, left, pause for a portrait.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Cameras are rigged to the car driven by Shawn Hatosy, with his TV “partner” Ben McKenzie, before shooting a scene.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

A dummy representing actor Ben McKenzie sits on a sidewalk.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Crew members spin a car rigged with cameras, capturing a car sliding out of control with actors Ben McKenzie, left and his TV “partner” Shawn Hatosy.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Dummies representing actors Ben McKenzie, left and Shawn Hatosy, are loaded into a car before an action sequence is filmed.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

A wide-angle zoom lens is destroyed on an HDSLR camera after being tossed from a car during an action sequence where an SUV collides with a police car.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

The clapboard shows an episode.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Actor Jamie McShane lets out a yawn before filming begins on an early day.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Actress Regina King on the set.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Jamie McShane, playing Sgt. Hill, has his wireless michrophone adjusted before shooting a roll-call scene.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Actors Michael Cudlitz, left, and Lucy Liu, who play LAPD partners, prepare for a shootout scene at a car wash.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Actress Lucy Liu, center, talks with director and executive producer Christopher Chulack, right, with her on-screen partner, Michael Cudlitz, left, between scenes at a car wash in Los Angeles.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

The day’s script on episode “Thursday” is reviewed before a shootout scene at a Los Angeles car wash.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Actress Lucy Liu, right, and her stunt double, Linda Jewell.   (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Actor Michael Cudlitz plays LAPD Officer John Cooper.
[For the record: An earlier version of this caption misidentified the character’s name as Hooper.]   (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Director and executive producer Christopher Chulack, in Angels hat, reviews a scene with actors Michael Cudlitz, left, and Lucy Liu.   (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

While on location at a Los Angeles car wash, actress Lucy Liu relaxes between scenes.   (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Actors Lucy Liu and Michael Cudlitz watch a monitor while at L.A. Center Studios.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)