Ann Biderman refuses to be a television writer.
Ann Biderman ( born August 15 , 1951 ) is an American film and television writer . She is the creator and executive producer of the NBC/TNT series Southland ( 2009 -- 2013 ) , and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Drama Series for an episode of NYPD Blue . Southland ( stylized as SOUTHLAND ) is an American television crime drama series created by writer Ann Biderman and produced by Warner Bros. . The Bag or the Bat . The series premiere was directed by Allen Coulter and written by series creator Ann Biderman .