Friday Night Lights, free and lovely

Friday Night Lights is an American television series adapted by Peter Berg, Brian Grazer and David Nevins from a book and film of the same name. During the first three seasons, the series details events surrounding the Dillon Panthers, a high school football team based in fictional Dillon, Texas, with particular focus given to team coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) and his family. In the fourth season, Taylor becomes coach of the Lions at East Dillon High School, set in the poorer side of Dillon with a larger African American population.
Even though I consumed every episode of "Friday Night Lights'" fifth and final season on DirecTV well before this evening's "official" series finale on NBC, I'd still convinced myself that this day would never come. New episodes would somehow produce themselves, even without network support or ratings or advertising behind them,

then DirecTV, is trying to put together a second movie with the principal cast of the series, which would pick up where the show left off. Here is more on the project, which would be produced by Universal Pictures, the studio behind the first movie, and Imagine, which co-produced both the movie and the TV series.

The book became a film in 2004, directed by Peter Berg, who then produced the TV version starring actor Kyle Chandler as football coach Eric Taylor. Although the show already had its series finale on DirecTV last year, tonight the final episode, “Always,” will air on NBC, this time a little sweeter than the previous.

Apparently there's actually some validity to this and a film could be in the works. SlashFilm points out that TV Line dug a bit deeper and found out that "it's no pipe dream. Berg, who directed the original feature and shepherded the NBC series with exec producer Jason Katims, is working behind the scenes to make it a reality." Interesting.

Apparently there's actually some validity to this and a film could be in the works. SlashFilm points out that TV Line dug a bit deeper and found out that "it's no pipe dream. Berg, who directed the original feature and shepherded the NBC series with exec producer Jason Katims, is working behind the scenes to make it a reality." Interesting.

It’s an extended episode, with a 90-minute running time. And I’ll be tweeting through my tears throughout; please feel free to follow along on the Celebritology Twitter feed as you watch. A recap of the episode will be posted in Celebritology later this evening, after the episode ends

As a network series, “Friday Night Lights” operated under certain constraints and the result was not only an exquisite bit of anthropology — life in a small, working-class Texas town – but a show in which beloved characters became intimates in our own lives. The series is over now, and I can genuinely say, I’m sorry that I won’t be able to see how these lives further unfold — how Tami and Eric make out in the Northeast, how Tim and Tyra do as a married couple, how Becky and Luke manage his time in the military, how Billy and Mindy will manage with twins.