watch me fall Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Auction ends in less than 2 hours. This thing's going for $500+. I wonder how this thing turned out? Also, Tim Riggins is back, baby!! He has been the best (and funniest) thing going in the last couple of episodes. The scene with him and the women's gymnastics team was a hoot. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Judge Smails Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 ...both 'either way' and 'sky blue sky' featured in tonight's episode... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
watch me fall Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 More Tim Riggins goodness in this episode. No Jason Street,however. What happened to the guy? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bigshoulders Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Another Wilco moment... "In a Future Age". Not that I needed another reason to watch, but whomever is programming the music is definitely like-minded. cheers,kevin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jenbobblehead Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 so was that the season ender? or are there more eppies? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
watch me fall Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I still say Tim Riggins is one of the best characters on TV right now. I'm just sad the eps are over. For now..hopefully. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I My pants still say Tim Riggins is one of the best characters on TV right now. I'm just sad the eps are over. For now..hopefully. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
watch me fall Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 True dat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 uhmmmmm.... I don't like the sound of this..... http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/tv-news/s...coming-back.php Friday Night LightsNo new episodes expected for this season. Future TBD. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
watch me fall Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Well that's not good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
watch me fall Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I know there aren't that many FNL fans here, but this is at least worth a try. Save Tim Riggins! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I know there aren't that many FNL fans here, but this is at least worth a try. Save Tim Riggins!This is a valiant effort, but it really should have been directed toward the producers/writers after the first episode of the second season aired. I know I'd have kept watching if they bumped up the quality. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
watch me fall Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 This is a valiant effort, but it really should have been directed toward the producers/writers after the first episode of the second season aired. I know I'd have kept watching if they bumped up the quality. Dude, I'm already not seeing Wilco this week. Give me something to live for, please. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
northern lights Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 looks like FNL will be back! NBC Picking Up 'Friday Night Lights' After Partnering With DirecTV http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/nbc-...t-with-directv/ "This is great news to that small but passionate audience for the best TV series you're not watching. I'm told that Jeff Zucker, Marc Graboff and Ben Silverman had been searching for a way to renew the critically acclaimed but low-rated Friday Night Lights for a 3rd season so that it would still make financial sense. The answer came in a deal with DirecTV, now owned by John Malone's Liberty Media. Clearly Malone is looking to distinguish DirecTV from its rivals on a content as well as price basis. "It's an innovative deal where NBC found a partner who will share costs and exhibition windows," an insider explained to me. So both NBC and DirecTV will be airing Friday Night Lights across multipurpose platforms. I'm a big fan of the hour-long high school football drama (which is really about horny teens and their hornswoggled parents) so I say hooray. NBC aired the last completed episode of Friday Night Lights on February 8th, but until now there's been no word on the show's clouded future. I can report that the third season is saved. Even though it usually ends up last in its time slot, the show does OK in the 18-to-49 demos and often wins the 18-to-34 demos. But FNL's Season One only averaged 6.1 million viewers a week, making it something like the 95th-highest rated show on network primetime TV, and Season Two averaged 6.2 million viewers a week but still came in at 101th. I can't say whether the fans' campaign to save the show by sending all those mini- footballs to NBC bigwigs worked the magic. But I do know the execs got them. Plus, the NBC suits knew that since the network is airing crap like that remake of Knight Rider (and shame on TV viewers for giving it good ratings), then they needed quality like FNL." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bigshoulders Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 That is great news. I for one got on board in the middle of the first season, and have been a loyal watcher ever since. I have wondered just what'll happen when all these kids graduate high school, but I'll take a 3rd season all the same. cheers,b.s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
watch me fall Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Another season of Tim Riggins. Thank you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Much rejoicing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mollyegan Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Tears of joy!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Season 2 has been disappointing--it's still good TV, but not nearly at the heights of season 1--but I'm happy the show's coming back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer 1 hour, 1 minute ago NEW YORK - "Friday Night Lights" will shine again next season. The acclaimed football-and-family drama will return on NBC for a third year after the 13 new episodes have aired on satellite-television provider DirecTV, in an unusual deal designed to spread production costs while rekindling a series whose audience until now has been as small as it is fervent. The series will unfold weekly for DirecTV subscribers beginning Oct. 1. Then, early in 2009, it will be seen on NBC, which made the announcement Wednesday. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Rumors of such a rescue for "Friday Night Lights" began circulating last month, but a final deal wasn't struck between the network, studio, producers and satellite service until this week, the participants said Tuesday. They agreed that negotiations were driven by a shared mission to give the series renewed life. Executive producer Jason Katims recalled that, four or five weeks ago, network and studio bosses vowed "to figure out a way to keep this show on the air, despite all the challenges of justifying it from a business standpoint." "And here we are," Katims said. "They did it." "There is such a passion for this show among its viewers," said NBC entertainment chief Ben Silverman, "and although you would hope that passion would have manifested itself in higher ratings," the new arrangement allows NBC "to have this jewel of a show and not even need to expand its audience to succeed on a financial basis." Of course, hopes are high the audience will expand. (In its now-concluded second season, the show averaged just 6.2 million viewers, tying it for 117th place in network prime time.) Premiering each episode for DirecTV's subscriber base of 16.8 million shouldn't hurt the series' prospects among NBC's much larger universe of viewers, Silverman said. And with DirecTV mounting an aggressive marketing campaign of its own, heightened public awareness of the series might carry over, drawing a larger audience for its later NBC run. The deal was first discussed in January when Silverman and Eric Shanks, DirecTV vice president of entertainment, met up at the Sundance Film Festival. "I'm a fan of the show," Shanks said, "and that was one reason why I was happy to be in a position to help it continue." And he had done business with Universal Media Studios, the network's production arm. A year ago, he acquired "Passions" for an exclusive season-long run after that daytime drama was canceled by NBC. "Friday Night Lights" will be available to DirecTV subscribers on its entertainment channel, The 101. And while the deal is for one year only, both Silverman and Shanks said it might extend go that. "I'm so enamored with the quality of the product that I really haven't set any particular ratings goals or subscriber goals for it," Shanks said. Filmed in Austin, the series depicts a small Texas town unified by its high school football team, the Dillon Panthers. Kyle Chandler heads up the large ensemble cast as Coach Eric Taylor, whose never-say-die spirit seems to have served the series well since it premiered in September 2006 to ecstatic reviews but lackluster numbers. Despite its acclaim (including a Peabody award), an active fan community and continued expressions of support by NBC, the show seemed to live from week to week. Until now. "It's really reassuring to have a known quantity of episodes, and not have any question marks," said Katims, who now has a guaranteed season with which to work. "I think that will really energize our storytelling. I'm hoping to get the writers into a room within the next 48 hours." Production should resume in July. But that will only be the start, said Katherine Pope, president of Universal Media Studios. "We aren't just trying to keep the patient on life support for another season," she said. "This is about bringing the show to the next level, in quality and acceptance. This is about exploding the show! You think the show has been brilliant these past two seasons? This is going to be the best season yet!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
countryfeedback Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 I just got home with the new issue of Men's Health. There is a profile on Minka Kelly (Lilla Garrity). Hottest girl on television, IMHO. I've been meaning to stalk her. I was the Continental Club (a cool music club here in Austin) when they were filiming an episode last year. The only person I recognized was the dude who plays Tim Riggins. Great soundtrack. Very good show. Glad to hear this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
watch me fall Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 News! Only 5 more months.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 I didn't realize that about the DirecTV thing. Weird. We don't have that, I'll have to find somewhere to watch in October. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
watch me fall Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 I don't have DirectTV either. I'm hoping maybe the episodes will show up online somewhere because I don't think I can wait until January. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Quick note of FNL awesomeness: In tonight's episode, two characters went to see the Heartless Bastards at a music festival in Austin. This show has always featured awesome music. Looks like this thread went no further than Season 2. Not sure how many people stuck with the show after the mediocre sophomore season, but Season 3 was a return to form, and Season 4 has been terrific so far--perhaps the best since the first. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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