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SWEEPS DAY NINE!! The Last FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Until …
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The last episode of “Friday Night Lights” completed subsequent to the writers’ strike airs tonight. Could it be the last episode ever, even if the writers head back to work in the days or months ahead?
NBC’s old management greenlit the series' second season just before new chief Ben Silverman took over the network and starting stocking primetime with “Phenomenon,” “Celebrity Apprentice” and “American Gladiators.” And then there was all that "force majeure" business we kept hearing about.
In any event, the network offers a description:
"MAY THE BEST MAN WIN"
02/08/2008 (09:00PM - 10:00PM) (Friday) : A DAY OF SURPRISES—Brian "Smash" Williams (Gaius Charles) is determined to get a football scholarship to college despite the recent events that have transpired. However, Brian is very shocked when the most unlikely place offers him what may be the opportunity of his life. Tami Taylor (Connie Britton) runs into her ex-boyfriend from high school, a big real estate mogul, and he decides to stay in Dillon for a few days. A few days proves to be too long as Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler) begins to feel a bit jealous. Elsewhere, Jason Street (Scott Porter) hears the biggest news of his life since his accident and must decide if he is willing to change his life completely. Meanwhile, Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch) continues his pursuit of Lyla (Minka Kelly) by getting his own radio show at the Christian radio station. Lyla seems to be enjoying her current relationship with her Christian boyfriend as she goes with him to meet his family. Jesse Plemons, Adrianne Palicki, Aimee Teegarden and Zach Gilford also star.
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9 p.m. Friday. NBC.
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02/08/2008 (09:00PM - 10:00PM) (Friday) : A DAY OF SURPRISES—Brian "Smash" Williams (Gaius Charles) is determined to get a football scholarship to college despite the recent events that have transpired. However, Brian is very shocked when the most unlikely place offers him what may be the opportunity of his life. Tami Taylor (Connie Britton) runs into her ex-boyfriend from high school, a big real estate mogul, and he decides to stay in Dillon for a few days. A few days proves to be too long as Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler) begins to feel a bit jealous. Elsewhere, Jason Street (Scott Porter) hears the biggest news of his life since his accident and must decide if he is willing to change his life completely. Meanwhile, Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch) continues his pursuit of Lyla (Minka Kelly) by getting his own radio show at the Christian radio station. Lyla seems to be enjoying her current relationship with her Christian boyfriend as she goes with him to meet his family. Jesse Plemons, Adrianne Palicki, Aimee Teegarden and Zach Gilford also star.
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Are so FREAKING HOT! They are half the reason I watch this show, (besides the great stories and it being just an awesome show). God I hope one of them goes "Bad Girl" or "Artistic" in their careers and goes nude....... hmmmm...... :)
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and hate everyone for not watching it.
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that saturdays bicoastal wga meeting makes some progress
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http://tinyurl.com/2d25mv it seems the show is done, which is a damn shame. All the girls are hot, though Teegarden's breasts are spectacular.
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The Wire, Lost, BSG, Friday Night Lights. Always consistent, always great.
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This season has had some of the best TV. It also has had some of the most typical, formula, episodes ever. I hope very much that it comes back. This season didn't always help it though.
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And considering crapfests like "Moment of Truth" and other brainnumbingly stupid "reality" shows continue to pull in huge numbers, I shudder to think what the 08/09 Television season will bring.
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...at NBC anyway. They're going to an all-reality, all the time format... just wait and see. No more Friday Night Lights, no more 30 Rock, no more Chuck, no more Heroes, no more Law and Order, no more Law and Order SVU, no more... etc. Just wait and see... it's gonna happen.
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FNL just might be the best thing on right now. The cast is excellent, and it'll be a shame if it doesn't survive the strike. (sucks that by trying to prove their worth, the writers' will end up dooming their best works, which will be replaced by more unscripted reality garbage). And yes, Ms's Teegarden, Palicki, Kelly, and Britton are all quite tasty.
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Shocking, to me, actually: http://tinyurl.com/2mzoy8.
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I mean that fuck1ng matt damon video was a blast!
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for the rest of the season. But how long can it really go on if the show is about high school football and all of the seniors have conveniently not graduated the first time around. However, I could see Tim Riggins failing out a few more years, and i would watch every minute of it. He is hotter than all of those girls.
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I was in awe of how good it was originally and have come to love it. It's a huge shame if it gets cancelled. It's the best network drama I've ever seen. I can't praise it enough. I buy the first season for like everyone I know and they all love it too. This fuckin' sucks, can we start sending shit to NBC or what, any ideas on that?
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definitely bought his jersey on NBC.com and it took like two months to get to me, it was back ordered, maybe merchandise, online episode viewing and season 1 DVD sales will help it come back to finish?
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..they resolved the whole murder plotline. first half of the season was painful though. nice to see the show back on track. hopefully there's more left after tonight though....
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John Favreau mentioned that it had been settled sometime during or prior to his guest slot on the Craig Ferguson Show ("I just heard back stage that the strike was over"). Although I couldn't tell if he was being serious or making a bad joke.
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If this show is cancelled by NBC, ESPN did show interest....but if this is the last episode, this sounds like a great way to go out....with Peter Berg, director of the film, and producer of the show, making a guest appearance
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In an interview he gave the other day, someone asked about FNL, and he kept saying that people should watch 30 Rock instead. And then he goes "FNL is a great show, but nobody watches it. We're NBC. We have a reputation to uphold." Are you fucking kidding me? With the reality bullshit you're throwing at everyone you're talking about reputation? Please. Watch FNL. Tell all your friends to do the same tonight. Maybe there's still hope for this great show.
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Best show on TV. Period. Stupidest network on TV. NBC. "Let's put a show about high school football on Friday night"...great idea, huh? How about Sunday night right AFTER football?
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/23057002
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It's the most honest show on television. It has great stories and some of the best characters on tv right now. I would be very disappointed if this was the last episode. It's an awesome show.
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...trying to save a show with mail-it-in Jericho type stuff, but for FNL it's different. One of the best shows I've seen in a long, long time, and I pretty much watch everything.
I've always thought that we should mail in Clear Eyes (like the eye drops) and Valentine's Day hearts filled with chocolate, hence "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, CAN'T LOSE!" -
It felt forced. It reeked to me as the result of a network note "you need to spice things up next season; less sex, more violence, that's what people want". And putting it on Friday night ranks up there as one of the stupidest prgramming moves ever."We're NBC. We have a reputation to uphold" If that reputation includes being in last place and staying there, then I congratulate you sir, mission accomplished.
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Sorry. Had to be said.
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Spread the word.
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Well gee, I can't imagine why nobody watches it. A show about high school football, the most useless of all sports, broadcasting the same night as most high school football games?
Only the people interested in HS Football would come within a mile of this show. Unfortunately, that audience is limited to the ex-jocks that are off from their shift at the Gas station down the street, whenever they aren't yelling at their fat ex-cheerleader wife that got pregnant the night of the 'big game', a game that only 5 people that actually played in the game remember and even less care about. Yeah, recipe for smash ratings hit this is.
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Reportedly NBC is shopping it around. This season wobbled a little out of the gate (the Landry murder story line stinks of a network note to me) but has rallied strongly. When FNL hits on all 8 cylinders, it's as good as anything being broadcast today. I don't know if Hollywood has every gotten small town life right before, this show deserved its Peabody.
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Everybody should send NBC Applebee's gift cards.
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I generally hate ESPN and it's snarky style of reporting on SportsCenter, but this would be a great fit for them. It is a huge jump in quality from that football show they did (it was called "Playmakers?" I don't remember the name...) that shit on pro football so badly the NFL pressured them to cancel it. While I applaud NBC for keeping low rated, critically lauded shows like this and "30 Rock" on the air, what a bunch of morons in how they have promoted it. You have the fucking NFL on Sunday nights and you don't use it to promote FNL? Idiots.
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...NASCAR? Zing!
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Visine is far less evil, and with my plan it could be a chocolate-filled heart from any company.
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I love the other football. World Cup, Champions League, Premiership (and the Brits are thinking about adding one more game to their schedule and playing league games overseas).
We remain unified in our love for K-Bell, however, and did you see the Forgetting Sarah Marshall red-band trailer yet? I think this is going to be the movie that sends Bell away from TV for a while and will make her an A-list movie star. The pieces are in place for it.
And I'll watch the FNL season (refuse to call it a series) finale as well. Does Herr Silverman hold a job in any other venue with the results he's produced in his abortion of a tenure with the network? Where are the stockholders? The execs who have seen their venture be 4th in a 5-horse field? Outrage, anyone? -
So hot. I watched the first season in a week on hulu.com and developed a massive crush on her without understanding why - and finally realized she reminds me a lot of my girlfriend. An adorable story, I know.
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Here's the interview that seanny_d referenced:
Q: Quick question! A lot of us are happy that you've kept Friday Night Lights on the air despite lousy ratings. It's totally the best show on TV. But is there going to be another season?
Silverman: "Do you watch 30 Rock? That's the best show on TV."
Q: Not regularly. But what about FNL?
Silverman: "Start watching 30 Rock. It's the best show on TV."
Q: I don't want to watch 30 Rock. I want to watch FNL. I love it.
Silverman: "I love it. You love it. Unfortunately, no one watches it. That's the thing with shows. People have to watch them. We're NBC, we have a reputation to uphold. And, man, with this writers' strike ... well, we'll see what we can do. But start watching 30 Rock."
Grrrrrrrrrr...doesn't look good. Hopefully they'll at least give them a few eps to film in March to end the show right. -
Glad they're concerned about their reputation. Which is probably why they're whoring out "My Dad is Better than Your Dad" on February 18th in the bottom left corner. Awesome. Damn NBC.
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http://tinyurl.com/258294
that is the link to nbc rewind..going to take a shower?..laundry? reading a book?click on an episode first..any episode..instead of us being sad..lets be proactive..trust me,those stats are checked,and a bump in viwership helps,set your dvr's if you live on the west coast(almost over est) tivo it,even if your going out,put your cable box on nbc..if you have a gift to buy for someone soon..its only $19 at amazon for the whole first season! http://tinyurl.com/ypjzzq if i had never watched the show and i got the first season from you on dvd..you would be my hero..think about it,if not,i'm down for going to burbank and playing touch football on their lot if anyone wants to play...a band i really like wrote a song about this sort of thing a few years back,its called "any number can play" by the band no use for a name..they were talking about radio..but its applicable here as well..the execs could care less about the quality of the programing..they push us away from them in droves..shhiiiiiitt! what ever happened to marketing? -
This was a very strong show. The second season was not as steady as the first. Still, I hope it gets a third season, or, at least a chance to finish it up with some class,
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I really enjoy FNL, but not enough people watch it when it airs. If you download the episode from a torrent or P2P site, you are not helping the show. You may be a fan, but you forget that networks have to put ads on for the show to make money for them.
It seems when we get quality tv, people don't watch it. They will watch these stupid game shows that are wannabes of the classic game shows.
Remember a show called Freaks and Geeks? This isn't that good, but similar to that, this show is probably going to get cancelled. Once it does, people will go out and buy the dvds, and complain it got cancelled. You have to watch it when it airs or shortly after you have it on Tivo or DVR. -
If the movie does well and they replace Friday Night Lights with a show that will just end up like Bionic Woman would be a crime against humanity.
And Shoe1985 to your point on DVR, FNL is in the top 5 of shows watched the next day on DVR. -
but i must admit, i haven't been as obsessed this year...
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Feb 09, 2008 12:40:14 PM CST
Wanna save the show? Put Eli Manning on it in his Giants duds.
by mrmysteryguest
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If Knight Rider succeeds it could replace FNL in the schedule. Sorry KITT, I love you but you'se gots ta die.
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Will Arnett is out as the voice of Kitt because of a conflict of interest with Arnett's GMC commitments as KITT is a Ford. So Val Kilmer is the replacement. My only reason for watching that is gone.
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That scene with Smash and Coach at Whitmore...you won't see a better scene on TV all fucking year.
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What a travesty it would be if NBC cancels this show and airs that "My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad" bullshit.
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Especially stuff between Coach and Mrs. Coach...just great stuff. And funny too. it's not all serious drama, there are funny moments or moments that you vaguely recall from being in high school. Just all around quality. I didn't think this show would be any good. I found the movie to be OK but lacking something. The movie was just...I don't know what the word I'm looking for but it seemed cruel almost. Maybe it was the Billy Bob Thornton character.
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Have you seen or read anything about how they shoot the show? No rehearsals, no blocking. They encourage a lot of on-set improvisation and the cameras are free to shoot what they want. It helps create that sense that you are observing the lives of real people. I also like how FNL never really hits you over the head with obvious dramatic beats. The Smash scene from last week (the crying after the big speech) is a great example. They showed about 2 seconds (if that ) of him crying and then cut away, which made it more powerful. I don't understand why NBC can't move this to Bravo or USA if it doesn't pull high enough ratings.
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I've noticed that a lot, they cut away in the middle of something but it doesn't feel like the wrong move, ever. but that scene at the University with Smash...Jesus. It was just amazing.
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