Friday Night Lights

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 DD So, hateful Coach McGregor is basically running the Panthers into the ground. This is no exaggeration. He puts Riggins through such intense physical punishment, the guy ends up in the hospital. His decision to give Matt's captaincy to Smash eventually provokes an upset Saracen to punch th...

By DD While the Taylors' marriage seems strong at first, there's underlying tension that gets fully exposed by episode's end. Sure, coach and the missus were going to "make it work," she told him in the season one finale. He'd take the TMU dream job and commute between Austin and Dillon. She'd stay...

By DD Perhaps the most promising sign for the show is a totally unexpected endorsement. Writer Bill Simmons--a.k.a. ESPN's "The Sports Guy"--currently is pleading with his fanbase to save Friday Night Lights, which he calls the "greatest sports show ever."

By DD Previously, the craziest high school football season ever got--wait for it--even crazier! The Dillon Panthers advance to the second round of the Texas state playoffs, but assistant coach Mac's racist comments prompt a walkout of the team's black players. On the homefront, Coach Eric T...

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 DD Eric Taylor becomes coach of the Dillon Panthers, the top-ranked high school football team in Texas, with the small town's hopes pinned on a state championship. And it's a storybook season all right--if the storybook is Fractured Fairy Tales.

By DD Welcome back to Friday Night Lights fodder. We'll get right to it this week. Previously: Everything is bigger in Texas, including the drama surrounding the Dillon Panthers, not so much a high school football team as Beatles-like figures in their small town. And "Friday Night Lights" has so...

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...