Friday Night Lights Two Season Pickup!

[WyldeMan45]

I have got some pretty good news for fellow fans of the NBC show Friday Night Lights! After barely getting it's 3nd season and being saved by DirecTV, NBC is actually very very close to announcing that FNL will be getting a 2 season, 26 episode pick-up!


"The two season, 26-episode pickup will be announced any day now. Unfortunately, it looks like Tyra will only be appearing in a handful of those 26, as (future CSI: Miami guest star) Adrienne Palicki is not expected back full time. Ditto Minka Kelly, who was recently cast in the CW pilot Body Politic opposite Veronica Mars' Jason Dohring. Both will likely be given multi-episode arc send-offs a la Gaius Charles' Smash and Scott Porter's Jason."

[andyman1970]

Never seen the show, but love the movie. And it looks and sounds great on BD by the way.

[CarolinaBlu]

Loved the movie; never seen the show... but I think you mean 4rd season : )

[movielib]

Fantastic news. The best show you've never seen.

I assume it'll play first on Direct TV as it did this season. I don't have DTV so I'm watching it on NBC now.

I don't understand how Kyle Chandler never gets an Emmy nomination. He and Hugh Laurie should each have a mantle full of Emmys by now.

Too bad about Tyra and Lyla. they'll be missed.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by CarolinaBlu

Loved the movie; never seen the show... but I think you mean 4rd season : )

Huh? I said the show barely got it's 3rd season pickup but was saved by DirecTv and now just got 2 more seasons ordered. Anyways the ratings have always been bad but the studio loves the show and that's why it's still around. Peter Berg who directed the movie writes and directs the show to. The show is far better than the movie and has really come into it's own. Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch) the resident drunk and football star just so happens to be Gambit in the upcoming Wolverine, which I am very much looking forward to!!

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by movielib

Fantastic news. The best show you've never seen.

I assume it'll play first on Direct TV as it did this season. I don't have DTV so I'm watching it on NBC now.

I don't understand how Kyle Chandler never gets an Emmy nomination. He and Hugh Laurie should each have a mantle full of Emmys by now.

Too bad about Tyra and Lyla. they'll be missed.

Oh I know this show gets no recognition but is one of the best shows nobody ever watches. Probably because some genius decided that because it's called Friday Night Lights, they have to put it on Friday nights...............D-Bags!! Yeah it'll air on DirecTv first I was so happy to get direcTv last fall, and be able to instantly watch the entire season. I think Season 3 was the best so far, I own the first 2 but am really hoping for Blu!!

[WyldeMan45]

"Touch-freaking-down!

Sources at NBC are now confirming what I first reported earlier this month: DirecTV and NBC have come to terms on a deal that ensures Friday Night Lights will stick around for not one but two more seasons!

And I repeat: Touch-freaking-down!

Although NBC declined to comment, my Peacock insider says the pact guarantees that FNL will see a fourth and fifth season of 13 episodes each. Similar to this season's shared-window experiment, DirecTV will get first crack at the episodes followed by an encore run on NBC."

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/


SPOILERS BELOW:

And Kyle Chandler spilled a little about the shape of the seasons to come (although you should skip this part if you haven't finished watching season three on NBC yet!):

Kyle says, "Coach has been moved into the poor part of town, and we have no pool to draw from for a football team. I think it opens up [the show] to be far more representative, having more Hispanics in the show, blacks in the show. And then also just being the underdogs going up against my old show where my wife is still principal."

Any chance Tami Taylor will follow Coach to the wrong side of the tracks in seasons four and five? Britton has her theories! "I think it would be interesting if she did, but it may be too difficult to depict in the show. It could also be interesting if I also go over there, and we're both struggling at this school that is just falling apart."

Mind you none of this is set in stone, as Connie is quick to point out, "We generally leave that stuff to the writers because their ideas are going to be 10 times better than anything I'd have an idea for!" Pshaw!

Sadly, many of the current castmembers, include Taylor Kitsch's Riggins, Minka Kelly's Lyla, Zach Gilford's Matt Saracen and Adrianne Palicki's Tyra, play graduating seniors who are likely to eventually exit and move on with their lives on and offscreen.

Says Kyle of the rotation, "They told us that that was going to be the case when we started the show—that people weren't going to stay on the show for seven years and be freshmen. People who have gone off the show, they knew what was going on. It does give a chance for new people to come on and for the show to be far more organic in that way, although some of the folks who are leaving I really wish they weren't, obviously."

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watc..._two_more.html

[Psychonaut]

This is great news. I really, really like this show. It's so well written and acted. Such a breath of fresh air from all the other reality crap airing non-stop on every other channel. I'm surprised more don't watch it as it always receives outstanding reviews. Oh well, their loss.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by Psychonaut

This is great news. I really, really like this show. It's so well written and acted. Such a breath of fresh air from all the other reality crap airing non-stop on every other channel. I'm surprised more don't watch it as it always receives outstanding reviews. Oh well, their loss.

They have it in a horrible time slot. For as much as the studio loves it, just because it's called Friday Night Lights doesn't mean it wouldn't work great on Tuesday or Wednesday.

[Aerodude73]

Excellent Show, LOVE IT! Thank god for DirecTV where I caught the last season & this one (unless last year was on NBC--I forget--but watched it). Great writing, great young/old acting, good real stories. Excellent show. Just wish it was 2 years of your regular 20-22 shows like Episodic TV shows.

Oh well, 2 years is 2 years. Best TV show news i've heard in a long time!

[ulri4651]

YES!
BEST.SHOW.EVER

[ifuwereahotdog]

Best news I've heard all week!

[ckent22]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

Huh? I said the show barely got it's 3rd season pickup but was saved by DirecTv and now just got 2 more seasons ordered. Anyways the ratings have always been bad but the studio loves the show and that's why it's still around. Peter Berg who directed the movie writes and directs the show to. The show is far better than the movie and has really come into it's own. Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch) the resident drunk and football star just so happens to be Gambit in the upcoming Wolverine, which I am very much looking forward to!!

Peter Berg directed the pilot of the show. That's it. He's now a writer, producer, and the creator. He's doesn't direct it anymore. He's smart to keep his name attached to it as a producer.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by Aerodude73

Excellent Show, LOVE IT! Thank god for DirecTV where I caught the last season & this one (unless last year was on NBC--I forget--but watched it). Great writing, great young/old acting, good real stories. Excellent show. Just wish it was 2 years of your regular 20-22 shows like Episodic TV shows.

Oh well, 2 years is 2 years. Best TV show news i've heard in a long time!

Seasons 1 & 2 where both on NBC, DirecTV didn't step in until the 3rd season. But I am just so happy they did, because without them, we would have not gotten season 3 or now 4 or 5!

[ulri4651]

Originally Posted by ckent22

Peter Berg directed the pilot of the show. That's it. He's now a writer, producer, and the creator. He's doesn't direct it anymore. He's smart to keep his name attached to it as a producer.

Unless I'm mistaken, Peter Berg created FNL?
He SERIOUSLY misfired on his other show- Wonderland

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by ulri4651

Unless I'm mistaken, Peter Berg created FNL?
He SERIOUSLY misfired on his other show- Wonderland

Peter Berg has also appeared in an episode of this show as Tammy's high school boyfriend. But as far as creating FNL, just so you know his cousin is "Buzz" H.G. Bissinger who actually wrote the book that the series and movie are based on, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream which was a 1990 non-fiction book that follows the story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team from Odessa as they made a run towards the Texas state championship.

While originally intended to be a Hoosiers-type chronicle of high school sports holding a small town together, the final book ended up being critical about life in the town of Odessa, Texas, complete with portraits of what Bissinger called "the ugliest racism" he has ever witnessed, as well as misplaced priorities, where football conquered most aspects of the town and academics were ignored for the sake of championships.

Bissinger was a sports writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, when he decided to write a book about high school sports. After a search, he settled on Odessa, TX and their famous Permian Panthers. The Panthers had a long, rich history of winning in Texas' AAAA and AAAAA division, winning championships in 1965, 1972, 1980 and 1984 at the time when Bissinger and his family moved from Philadelphia to Odessa. He spent the entire football season with the Permian Panther players, their families, the coaches, and even many of the townspeople in an effort to understand the town and their football culture and what created such madness for their football team.

In 2002, Sports Illustrated named Friday Night Lights the fourth-greatest book ever written about sports.

[ckent22]

Originally Posted by ulri4651

Unless I'm mistaken, Peter Berg created FNL?
He SERIOUSLY misfired on his other show- Wonderland

Did I not say in my post that he created it? Come on. Seriously read before you post. Think before you post.

[ckent22]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

Peter Berg has also appeared in an episode of this show as Tammy's high school boyfriend. But as far as creating FNL, just so you know his cousin is "Buzz" H.G. Bissinger who actually wrote the book that the series and movie are based on, and I believe the book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream which was a 1990 non-fiction book that follows the story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team from Odessa as they made a run towards the Texas state championship.

He meant the creator of the show I'm assuming and for that he's write, but you're correct in saying no Berg didn't just come up with the idea himself. The film and show are based on actual events with the tv show more loosely based on it.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by ckent22

He meant the creator of the show I'm assuming and for that he's write, but you're correct in saying no Berg didn't just come up with the idea himself. The film and show are based on actual events with the tv show more loosely based on it.

I just added a little more information about the book to my last post, but you guys had already replied before I realized

[ulri4651]

Originally Posted by ckent22

He meant the creator of the show I'm assuming and for that he's write, but you're correct in saying no Berg didn't just come up with the idea himself. The film and show are based on actual events with the tv show more loosely based on it.

for that I'm "write"?!?!?!?! come on man! seriously, proofread your friggin post to check for the most basic spelling/grammer mistakes. jeez