Friday Night Lights

By TheBigLead Derek Jeter, after pouring champagne over the head of girlfriend Minka Kelly in the locker room following last night’s series-clinching victory, took the Friday Night Lights actress to 1Oak in New York City and partied with A-Rod and Kate Hudson, among others. Tonight, the ‘core’ of Jet...

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 editor@buddytv.com I mean, we all know Friday Night Lights is getting a reboot of sorts, after most of the folks we're following at Dillon High graduated--and, to complicate things, Eric found himself sent to coach East Dillon, as the town gets split into two school districts.  And Tami is still at West Dillon....

By Hana Title: chosen Fandoms: Friday Night Lights/Buffy The Vampire Slayer Characters: Tami, Tyra, Lyla, Giles Rating: PG Disclaimer: I don’t own the shows, characters, etc.

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 fleurlb Julie was proud that she'd managed to remain relatively calm during the actual conversation. She'd limited herself to a few questions, and then stolen a neutral statement right out of the Tami Taylor playbook. Something like “Well, if that's what you feel like you have to do.”

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:

By FreakChiq(noreply@blogger.com) The upcoming fourth season will also focus on the fate of several returning characters including last season’s graduates Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch), Lyla Garrity (Minka Kelly), and Matt Saracen (Zach Gilford) as well as Julie Taylor (Aimee Teegarden) and Landry Clark (Jesse Plemon...

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 Rachel Fandom: Friday Night Lights Characters: Tim Riggins/Matt Saracen Summary: At parties, he and Julie used to watch how it worked, used to discuss the science of Tim Riggins the same way they’d discuss music. Julie claimed it was all pheromones. Matt thought it had to be more than that.

By dupzyk Despite the brilliant writing, acting, et al., Friday Night Lights is still fighting to stay on TV. After thinking about it for a while, here is my proposal as to why: The penultimate episode of the most recent (third) season of Friday Night Lights has a scene that

By fleurlb Fandom: Friday Night Lights Characters: Tim Riggins, Julie Taylor, Disclaimer: NBC, Peter Berg and all those other people own everything recognizable here. I am only doing this for fun and to pass the time until Season 4 starts. Notes/Warnings: Starts in the summer between Season 3 and 4.

By fleurlb Fandom: Friday Night Lights Characters: Tim Riggins, Julie Taylor, Landry Clark, Matt Saracen Rating: PG Word Count: 3,700 Summary: First in a series of Tulie short stories. As a favor to Landry, Julie helps Tim with an English assignment and starts to see him in a new light.

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...

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...

Tami does not even stir in her bed, for all we know. The tattoo caused an uproar, but the virginity left in peace. Let's just linger here some more since Emily, you particularly have worried so much about Matt Saracen. Matty shows up at Julie's house ...

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 Hana Title: Falling Slowly Fandom: Friday Night Lights Pairing: Matt/Julie Rating: PG Spoilers: Everything up to early season 2. Disclaimer: I don't own the show, characters, etc. Summary: Their first date is a disaster but he thinks their first kiss makes up for it. Falling Slowly

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 Tempo A few things on the Interwebs caught my eye today: In this hilarious piece, "Battlestar Galactica" is reconceived as a series of Facebook updates (here is a fun "Lost"-Facebook mashup that I linked to a while back). By the way, here's a new clip from the show's Jan. 16 episode (it's not spoile...

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 dan@duckyxdale.com (Duckyxdale & GiveMeMyRemote) What about the DirecTV/NBC split of the amazing Friday Night Lights - are we watching and if so what do we think?  First of all, don't question our loyalty to the Dillon Panthers; Second, just listen. Oh and you'll never believe this but in a TV Talk first, we talk about One Tree Hill... WTF?

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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...

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 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 ...

By dan@duckyxdale.com (Duckyxdale & GiveMeMyRemote) 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...

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By DarkUFO The epic battle between the Light (Tim Riggins) and the Dark (Terrifying, Creepy, Meth-Lab-Running Ferret Man) is far from over. They've barely scratched the surface of that storyline. Also, good news: Look for an important supporting role played by, wait for it, big brudder Billy Riggi...

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 Movie Junkie podcast joins Sean, Tina and Luke again to all the latest series finales, season finales, news, and recaps for all your favorite TV shows including Heroes, LOST, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, BONES, Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, C...

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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...