TVGuide.com spoke to stars Kyle Chandler (Eric Taylor), Connie Britton (Tami Taylor), Aimee Teegarden (Julie Taylor), Taylor Kitsch (Tim Riggins), Zach Gilford (Matt Saracen), Matt Lauria (Luke Cafferty), Michael B. Jordan (Vince Howard), and executive producers Jason Katims and David Nevins about the long road to that final Texas sunset.
Not many in the cast have brought themselves to watch this season yet, though they wrapped last summer.
Britton: I haven’t seen much of the season. Because it’s our final season, I’ve been very resistant to watch it. Every time I think I’ll sit down to do it, I … (click post title to read more)

In the second part of our farewell to Friday Night Lights, producers and cast talk about the show’s controversial storylines (murder! abortion!), the show-saving fan campaigns, sending the Taylors to East Dillon and (unbelievably!) hating on the Panthers.
TVGuide.com spoke to stars Kyle Chandler (Eric Taylor), Connie Britton (Tami Taylor), Aimee Teegarden (Julie Taylor), Taylor Kitsch (Tim Riggins), Zach Gilford (Matt Saracen), Matt Lauria (Luke Cafferty), Michael B. Jordan (Vince Howard), and executive producers Jason Katims and David Nevins about the long road to that final Texas sunset. The series finale airs Wednesday at 9 pm on DirecTV.

A closely observed drama about boys becoming men, the comforts and frustrations of small-town life, a family’s growing pains, and the lessons learned from football, Friday Night Lights will not soon be forgotten. The show wrapped filming of its fifth and final season in July, and on Wednesday, the lights will go down forever on Dillon, Texas. (For those without DirecTV, NBC will re-air the final season beginning April 15 at 8/7c.)
TVGuide.com spoke to stars Kyle Chandler (Eric Taylor), Connie Britton (Tami Taylor), Aimee Teegarden (Julie Taylor), Taylor Kitsch (Tim Riggins), Zach Gilford (Matt Saracen), Matt Lauria (Luke Cafferty), Michael … (click post title to read more)

Connie Britton and Harry Connick Jr. are toplining holiday family film “When Angels Sing,” directed by Tim McCanlies (“Secondhand Lions”).
Producing are Elizabeth Avellan (the “Spy Kids” series) via her EYA Prods., Fred Miller’s FWM Prods. (“For All Mankind”) and Shannon McIntosh (“Inglourious Basterds”).
Kris Kristofferson, Chandler Canterbury (“After.Life.”), Willie Nelson, Fionnula Flanagan, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson and Lyle Lovett round out the cast. The film will also feature appearances by Texas musicians Bob Schneider, Charlie Sexton, Sarah Hickman and Ray Benson.
Lou Berney adapted the Christmas novel of the same name by Turk Pipkin (“The Sopranos”), … (click post title to read more)

For its first two seasons, Friday Night Lights was the little show that could, repeatedly dodging cancellation in spite of floundering ratings, much to the delight of the series’ small but fervent fan base. Then, miraculously, a shared-rights deal between NBC and DirecTV buoyed Friday Night Lights through three more seasons. In that time, FNL has used the fictional town of Dillon, Texas and its intense relationship with high-school football as a jumping-off point for human drama both outsized and intimate, much of it centering on the family of Coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) and his wife, Tami (Connie Britton). … (click post title to read more)

“Eighteen years,” Tami Taylor angrily whispered in last week’s episode of “Friday Night Lights,” referring to the amount of time she’s been Coach Eric Taylor’s loyal and supportive wife. Two words that packed a punch because of the way that Connie Britton quickly delivered them, sneaking them in with a piercing glance at her befuddled husband as she allowed uninvited guests into her home.
Then, just as deftly, Tami turned on her Southern belle charm: “Can I get ya’ll anything — ice tea? Water?”
It’s the kind of subtle moment viewers of “Friday Night Lights” have … (click post title to read more)

The series finale of Friday Night Lights airs tonight on DirecTV, and the critics’ darling is bowing out in the same way it premiered five years ago: quietly, with grace and heart, and amidst a showering of praise.
Beyond the series’ numerous emotional triumphs, the constant highlight of FNL has been the way marriage is portrayed by leads Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton as Coach and Tami Taylor. “The relationship between the Taylors reminds many of the best parts of marriage,” David Carr wrote in The New York Times, “In which the injury to the one is felt by both, and … (click post title to read more)

Make sure the tissues are handy because tonight’s the beginning of the end for one of the finest shows ever to play on the small screen: Friday Night Lights. The high school football drama boasts two final nights, this week and next, of powerhouse drama.
Highlights: a relationship-rocking decision faces coach Eric Taylor and his wife, Tami (Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton); some hot reunions happen, including a marriage proposal; and there’s an almost religious-feeling state championship game filmed at the Cotton Bowl.
Other goodies to look forward to: As Christmas comes to Dillon, three of the show’s beloved originals — Tim … (click post title to read more)

Hot off his Oscar nominated film “The Fighter,” David O. Russell—who, as usual, has a number of projects he’s working on—has added one more and set his sights on the small screen. Deadline reports that the director has teamed up with “Friday Night Lights” actress Connie Britton to create a female-driven drama for FX.
While little is known at the moment, Russell will create the series with Britton in line to star. “Friday Night Lights” ended its five-season run last October and many had speculated whether the actress would make a leap to another series immediately thereafter. The acclaimed series struggled … (click post title to read more)