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Tomorrow night, after five terrific, unlikely seasons, the clock will run out on NBC's Friday Night Lights. Inspired by the legendary Buzz Bissinger book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, and the 2004 Peter Berg movie based on it, FNL told the story of a high school football coach from Dillon, Texas, whose improbable victories ( Read more... )

Not sure if anyone else has posted this, but over at Grantland.com, there's an article chronicling the history of FNL from the creative team, including the actors, directors, Peter, Jason, etc ( Read more... )

Funny, cute, and very fanboyish interview by one of the ESPN writers with Zach Gilford here ( Read more... )

I hope this isn't true. If it is, I won't be a happy camper!
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Rumors are coming out that if NBC pulls/cancels FNL, it may move to ESPN.

Wasn't this rumored last year as well?

Don't Turn Off the Lights

Another "Save FNL"/plea for ratings article ... this time by the immensely popular "Sports Guy" (Bill Simmons) on espn.com.  The article's up on espn.com and is in the September 24 issue of ESPN the Magazine.

The Sports Guy is snarky and fun and always referencing pop culture in his columns, so maybe he'll add some FNL ( Read more... )

Bill Simmons, ESPN's sports guy, finally updated his mail bag promising to cover everything from Daisuke Matsuzaka to Friday Night Lights. While I knew the shots where slim I was a wee excited about it since I had sent in two e-mails on each topic and at least thought that the FNL one had a better chance of being one of them. It wasn't, sadly, but ( Read more... )