Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch is to miss part of the show's fifth season.

By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) • I'm glad to see that Landry has learned a lot from his time with Tyra about what not to do - and what to do - around a girl he likes. The awkward Landry of season one wouldn't have been able to so confidently plant a kiss on Jess and then walk away like that. (The Landry of season two just would have ki...

By editor@buddytv.com Well, stuff are finally unraveling on Friday Night Lights. The Lions are sort of coming together, the graduates are still grappling with life after high school, and loyalties are being tested--say, Buddy finally giving up on the Panthers because Joe just took over and wrecked things up. A...

By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) Spoilers for tonight's "Friday Night Lights" coming up just as soon as I take a plate of responsibility... "See, you're the only one that didn't get the joke." -Levi BurnwellHaving established the new world of East Dillon and its most notable residents over the first two episodes, a busier-t...

By Myles Going into the show’s fourth season, the narrative was drawn as clearly as the zig-zagging border line: with two football teams in town, one led by our fearless hero and the other by the villainous interlopers, this season was going to be about the fight between the Lions and the Panthers. A...

By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) I just wish there was a way to more easily integrate our two Panther alums. Saracen in particular still feels like he's off in his own show. While I like the idea of Riggins turning into an acolyte of Coach's - Taylor Kitsch and Kyle Chandler were both terrific in the way they showed how happy eac...

By Myles “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts…” In the very first episode of Friday Night Lights, a “can’t lose” football team became a longshot. When Jason Street went down on the field, ending up paralyzed, the Panther football program went from being a contender for State to being a rudderless ship with a ro...

By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) • Love that Tim once again finds himself in bed with a MILF. Did he and Lyla decided not to bother with the losing proposition of a long-distance relationship, or is this just Riggins being Riggins? • Louanne Stephens remains a comedy machine as Grandma Saracen. "Landry? Stop throwing the ba...

By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) In today's column, I review "Friday Night Lights'" fourth season, which is as terrific as I expected it to be, based on the clever ending of season three. After the jump, I'm going to briefly explain how I intend to cover the show this season.

By Tempo Julie Taylor (Aimee Teegarden) and Landry (Jesse Plemons) are still in high school, and a new roster of young characters joins the cast this season. If a few of them prove as memorable as Riggins or Saracen, "FNL" will be in good shape.

By Rick Porter A divided Dillon, some intriguing new characters and the return of old friends are among them.

By thehues@gmail.com (Vance) Friday Night Lights New Season 4 Premieres Wednesday Oct. 28 2009 on DirecTV at 9pm. (NBC will air it Summer 2010) Kyle Chandler as Coach Eric Taylor: Connie Britton as Tami Taylor: Aimee Teegarden as Julie Taylor Taylor Kitsch as Tim Riggins Zach Gilford as Matt Saracen:

Apparently, the con is on -- and very popular. TNT has just announced a third season for its hit TV drama, "Leverage." Even though the show is currently airing its second season, the network is ordering 15 additional episodes. The second season will finish up this winter, with the third comin...

By fleurlb Title: Before and After Fandom: Friday Night Lights Characters: Tim Riggins with brief appearances by Julie Taylor, Tyra Collette, Lyla Garrity, Jason Street, an OC Rating: PG Word Count: 5,000 Summary: Tim Riggins amuses himself with memories at his high school grauation.

By bonniekaryn In addition to Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton, full-time returnees include Jesse Plemons, Taylor Kitsch, Aimee Teegarden, and Jeremy Sumpter. Adrianne Palicki, Minka Kelly, and Zach Gilford will likely be back for short-term farewell arcs. (Michael Ausiello)

By Linden Disclaimer: Anything that you can recognize from the show Friday Night Lights is property of Peter Berg, Brian Grazer, David Nevins and NBC. Our purposes are not lucrative - we do not make money for this. Everything else is property of its corresponding author. Don't sue, we're just having h...

 OK Fans of the TV series "Friday Night Lights” — which takes place in the fictional West Texas town of Dillon — can put together their own little tour of the town. The Austin Star Map features one "FNL” location — the Dairy Queen that on the show was ...

“Friday Night Lights” stars Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler were guests of NBC, and had some good casting news for fans of the show, especially those who flock to the drama for Tim Riggins, played by actor Taylor Kitsch. “We don't know exactly who is ...

By Jason Mittell The show’s main appeal for me in the first season was its sense of texture - you got a feel for both the place of Dillon, Texas, and the relationships between the characters. The way they spoke to each other, the way they spent their days - this felt both dramatically engaging and new for televi...

By Jenny(noreply@blogger.com) All good things must come to an end — that is, until next season. Friday Night Lights' third-season finale aired Friday, and dealt a shocking blow to Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler). The twist came after an already emotionally-packed 13 episodes that included Coach dealing with a new baby, se...

By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) I joked at the end of season one that a renewed "Friday Night Lights" would feature NBC-mandated changes like murder mysteries and Tyra and Lyla working at a bikini car wash. We eventually got the murder (though it came from Katims, not NBC), and we got the bikinis, too, but the brief glimpse...

By morningaftershow We talk about all sorts of fun things like Grey’s Anatomy, Gossip Girl, Friday Night Lights (ok we talk about TV shows a bunch), Vanilla Pepsi, Pol Plastino, Politics, some radio broadcasting slips in there… good times. The boys will post the video of the show on their site later tonight, bu...

By dan@duckyxdale.com (Duckyxdale & GiveMeMyRemote) On Tuesday, we briefly discuss The Biggest Loser before realizing we've seriously talked about the exact same thing for the last 3 weeks.  American Idol gets a little love and dare I say discrimination, giving you listeners one of the funniest, most off-color things ever said on this podc...

By harper_m Fandom: Friday Night Lights A/N: This happens after the 2nd season episode (handily entitled Let’s Get It On) where Tim, Lyla, and Jason come back from their adventures in Mexico. I’m sure it’s been done before, and by better, but the ending of that episode just seems to beg for fic.

By Myles If you are a fan of Friday Night Lights, “Underdogs” is going to be mightly familiar: as the Dillon Panthers head off to the State High School Football championships, there’s a quarterback having trouble keeping his focus on the field, there’s a road trip to the big game, and there’s a scen...

By kimberlite Pairing: Tim Riggins/Guy Raston Notes: Thanks, as always, to splix for encouragement and beta. This is a birthday fic for micehell and a thank you for getting me hooked on one more show. ;) A few lines from The Confession and Humble Pie are paraphrased.

By Tempo Photos: Zack Roerig and Adrianne Palicki; Gaius Charles and Kyle Chandler; Aimee Teegarden, Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler; Jeremy Sumpter and Whitney Hoy; Zach Gilford and Jesse Plemons. The third season of "Friday Night Lights" (8 p.m. Wednesday, DirecTV's 101 Network) is unfoldin...

By dramady Title: New York, New York Pairing/Characters: Tim/Jason Rating: R Warnings: slash Spoilers: Refers to New York, New York Disclaimer: Friday Night Lights and its characters do not belong to me and I am making no profit from this. Sure, TPTB have better things to do than sue me.

Half rallying cry, half vow, the phrase “Texas forever” popped up in the first episode of Friday Night Lights shortly before the friendship of the three characters saying it—Street, Riggins, and Lyla—would be tested by mishap and infidelity. It returns this week as two of those characte...

By Jerkwheat Second best scene of the night? Riggins taking McCoy on a ride through "the real Dillon". This includes the Landing Strip, the burger joint, and a bar when Tim is known as Ray, a veteran of both Iraqi wars. Is there any doubt that Tim the Running Back is what this country is all about and not effin...

We pick up where we left off, with Wednesday night where we plow through Friday Night Lights, Pushing Daisies, and Dirty Sexy Money.  On to Thursday where we cover Ugly Betty, the premiere of Kath & Kim, The Office, and the boys over at Supernatural.  Sunday night has us loving The Amazin...

By Roger Catlin There's a lot more story to tell about this most realistic family drama from small town Texas. Smash Williams has graduated and is working at the Alamo Freeze; his knee injury having precluded a college career; nonetheless Coach Taylor is still working with him. Matt Saracen is still start...

By DarkUFO(noreply@blogger.com) DIRECTV's The 101 Network is the only place for viewers to catch all-new episodes of Friday Night Lights this fall. All thirteen new episodes of season three will air on DIRECTV and then on NBC in February 2009. In addition to the exclusive premiere, The 101 Network will feature a specially p...

By Claudia Title: What has been Fandom: Friday Night Lights Pairing: Tim and Tyra Rated: T Summary: AU FIC, Tim has to let go of NFL dream for diapers. The 'what could of been', cant be better then the 'What has been'

By Amanda Summary: Collapsing in tears, Landry catches her. She thinks she let herself fall because she trusted him to do just that. Author's Note: This is my first Friday Night Lights fic. I just finished Season One, so I’m a little behind. This is set during 'Mud Bowl', so spoilers for that.

On today's show Sean and Luke discuss the season finale of Stargate Atlantis, the latest episodes of Torchwood, and New Amsterdam, and news on Friday Night Lights, 24, Project Runway, Beauty and the Geek, Reaper, Gossip Girl schedule changes, a Hogan Knows Best spinoff, the new Loahn re...

By sisredlo Title: On Your Side Author: sisredlo Characters: Tim Riggins, Tyra Collette Rating: PG-13 for language Spoilers: All of Seasons 1 and 2 Disclaimer: All things Friday Night Lights belong to people above my pay grade. A/N: Title taken from the Pete Yorn song.

By DD Previously, for the star-crossed Dillon Panthers high school football team: Injured QB Jason Street wants to get married to girlfriend Lyla Garrity and try out for the U.S. Quad Rugby team, presumably not simultaneously. Star RB Brian "Smash" Williams is caught using steroids, but Coach...

By DD Previously, in football- drama-town, Texas: Landry and Tyra killed her stalker and covered it up. Fans didn't like that so much. And yeah, a few other things happened--a Taylor baby popped out, Julie and Matt are on the rocks, Buddy Garrity's on a downward spiral--but seriously. Landry and...

By Tempo The Dillon Panthers were gearing up for the final stretch of the football season when the writers strike shut them down. “Friday Night Lights” (8 p.m. Friday WMAQ-Ch. 5), which follows the Panthers, their coach and those who cheer them on in the small Texas town of Dillon, runs out...

By Tempo The episode will air Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 11 a.m., and will also be available via a podcast. Why do I recommend "Once" so highly? Because the film has all the intimacy and emotional truth of a great episode of "Friday Night Lights."

By Tempo Photos: Brad Leland as Buddy Garrity and Jesse Plemons as Landry Clarke; Connie Britton as Tami Taylor; Gaius Charles as "Smash" Williams; Plemons and Brea Grant as Jean; Zach Gilford as Matt Saracen and Louanne Stephens as Grandma Saracen;  Taylor Kitsch as Tim Riggins; Kyle Chandler...

By DarkUFO Meanwhile, Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch) continues his pursuit of Lyla (Minka Kelly) by getting his own radio show at the Christian radio station. Lyla seems to be enjoying her current relationship with her Christian boyfriend as she goes ...

fandom: Friday Night Lights, au, crossover rating: gen, pg note: Tim Riggins, post-apocalypse. He’s never cut his hair by himself. In high school, when it brushed too long on his shoulders and Smash Williams left pink plastic barrettes ...

Happy New Year and welcome to TV in 2008 -- something the likes you've never seen before.  The WGA Strike has completely changed the landscape of television for the upcoming winter/spring season and we're here to dish about it.   Dan and Kath are back for TV Podcast #18 and while shows are stil...

Weâre about to enter Week 5 of the WGA Strike and we're here to give you the rundown on how many original episodes are left for most shows. We then discuss this seasonâs plot points thus far as well as whether or not each show is living up to our expectations. Sit back and relax, itâs our TV Podcast...

By Guest Blogger Writing fanfiction for the show challenging and fun. Most fanfics focus on the teens. A favorite pairing is brooding Tim Riggins and good girl Lyla Garrity. A close second is the sweet relationship between Matt Saracen and Julie Taylor, ...

Review: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS - SEASON TWO - 'Last Days of Summer'  - Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) had just taken a big time coaching job at a TMU college, despite the fact his wife, Tami (Connie Britton), was pregnant and his ...

Corry from the Movie Junkie podcast joins Luke, Tina and Sean to discuss all the latest in TV news and shows including Friday Night Lights' renewal,  38 episodes of The Office,  Tina's obsession with Tori Spelling,  DRIVE's 4th of July celebration,  L&O jumping to TNT, FX renews Dir...

By Tempo A commenter on another site said she checks the clock when “Friday Night Lights” makes her cry – to see how long it took before she got choked up. When I watched the “Friday Night Lights” finale, only five minutes passed before I got a lump in my throat. It’ll be no surprise that the scene in quest...