A Friday Night Lights movie is in the works… again!
The high school football drama, which is based on movie that was based on book, has had so much success on NBC that executive producer Peter Berg announced at a Television Critics Association event on Monday that talks for a movie have begun.
It’s tough to say whether the writers could create a movie different enough from the last one to keep it fresh. But if the show’s been successful, executive producer Jason Katims must know what he’s doing.
“It’s still very early,” Katims said. “I’m just beginning to plot out the story … (click post title to read more)

“Friday Night Lights,” one of my all-time favorite series, won the “Program of the Year” prize at the Television Critics Association Awards Saturday night and Connie Britton, Kyle Chandler and others from the cast were there to receive it.
It was like going to a class reunion. Connie said she’s hoping the suggested “FNL” movie will transpire; Kyle told me he was proud of “Super 8.” “That turned out well, didn’t it?”
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If and when a feature film based on the “Friday Night Lights” TV series comes to pass, Connie Britton will be there.
“I think we all love the idea so much about being able to do that,” Britton said Saturday (Aug. 6) at the Television Critics Association press tour.
That said, any possible feature-film project is still a good ways down the road. “I’ve talked to Pete [Berg, who directed the 2004 "Friday Night Lights" movie and developed the series] and [showrunner] Jason Katims, and it really is in its very baby stages right now,” Britton says.
“Listen — I was just watching … (click post title to read more)

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)

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)