Friday Night Lights

By steve@iscribelimited.com (pantherpride4lyfe) Q: If Friday Night Lights gets picked up for a fourth season (as has been rumored but is not official just yet) who among the cast will return? A: The only locks are the core Taylors (Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Aimee Teegarden) and incoming senior Landry (Jesse Plemons).

By steve@iscribelimited.com (pantherpride4lyfe) Q: I was just curious if you have any thoughts on the third season of Friday Night Lights. Normally you have lots to say about this fantastic show, but I'm guessing you're waiting until the current third season airs on NBC to weigh in. The November 19 "New York, New York" episode, though, was pa...

By steve@iscribelimited.com (pantherpride4lyfe) A: Not tonight, since Matt and Julie are MIA throughout the entire episode. The big news (aside from the coming out I teased above) is the sudden and dramatic turn Jason's life takes as a result of a chance encounter at a Panthers game. Not so coincidentally, Scott Porter makes his final appea...

By steve@iscribelimited.com (pantherpride4lyfe) A: Yes there is! He'll have a new girlfriend this week, or so he tells Tyra (Adrianne Palicki). In other Friday Night Lights news, one of the Panthers never told his parents he was on the team, and he's yanked off the field just before the big game. As for the newest football hero, J.D. McCoy (Jerem...

By steve@iscribelimited.com (pantherpride4lyfe) After two seasons on NBC, the critically acclaimed drama about a small Texas town and its football team made its debut Wednesday on DirecTV. In its first two seasons, Friday Night Lights averaged 6.2 million viewers on NBC, a relatively low rating for a major network broadcast.

By steve@iscribelimited.com (pantherpride4lyfe) Friday Night Lights' Zach Gilford, 26, a Chicago native, got a degree from nearby Northwestern but actually rooted for Michigan. It's a long story. The Friday Night Lights gig was a happy accident. Gilford initially read for the Tim Riggins part during a New York audition. During a later audi...

By steve@iscribelimited.com (pantherpride4lyfe) Plus, I heard Ben Silverman (the one who wasn't a fan of Friday Night Lights) is leaving or stepped down from NBC — is that just a rumor? Sorry for all the questions, but I began rewatching Season One of FNL last night and was reminded (because it's been so long since I last saw an episode) how go...

By steve@iscribelimited.com (pantherpride4lyfe) Kyle Chandler is hopeful that the critically acclaimed but low-rated Friday Night Lights runs at least that long. As Eric Taylor, coach of the high school football team in fictional Dillon, Texas, he heads a show that's about a lot more than football and uses its small-town backdrop to dra...

By steve@iscribelimited.com (pantherpride4lyfe) NBC and DirecTV hosted a luncheon with the cast of TV's best drama, Friday Night Lights, in which executive producer Jason Katims huddled up with a few journalists - such as Entertainment Weekly star Michael Ausiello - and basically outlined plans for the entire third season.

By pantherpride4lyfe As always, you can discuss the episode - there’s plenty more going on this week besides Landry’s revelation - and everything else related to Friday Night Lights in the official Insider forum. Click to share your thoughts! With guilt eating away at him all season, Landry Clarke (Jesse Plem...

By pantherpride4lyfe A portion of the proceeds from the auction will benefit the United Way. The NBC auction runs through December 3, at which point a new batch of props are going live! Here are the items relating to Friday Night Lights up for bids… Dillon Panthers Cheerleading UniformOfficial Tim Riggins Pant...

By pantherpride4lyfe AICN claims Scott Porter might be playing Superman, but IESB counters with “our sources tell us he was up for the role of The Flash and obviously Adam Brody won out, we’ve heard nothing about him being cast as Superman.” The official cast of Warner Brothers’ live-action Justice League of Am...

By pantherpride4lyfe Nichols, whose multi-episode arc began last Friday, plays Noah Barnett, a new teacher at Dillon High who forms a bond with Julie Taylor (Aimee Teegarden), the teenage daughter of guidance counselor Tami Taylor (Connie Britton).