Pop quiz with Colo-Nesco football player Josh Gaedke Oct 22, 2008
A "Friday Night Lights.". Q Favorite food. (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)
Commentary: For Texas, The Bar Has Risen Oct 19, 2008
Derek Jeter was in the house Saturday night in Austin, prowling the sidelines with his girl friend, Friday Night Lights actress Minka Kelly. For all of his successes on and off the field you had to wonder if Jeter ever-so-briefly thought, Boy, it sure would be nice to be a part of this Texas team. (InsideTexas.com)
Football way of life in Texas Oct 16, 2008
Movies like Friday Night Lights and Varsity Blues give a fairly accurate portrayal of high school football in Texas ... Owen cited the closeness of the team as the most accurate part about Friday Night Lights and Varsity Blues. (Prep Sports Sports -- Rivals.com)
MGM and Lakeshore Enroll Freshman Cast for FAME Oct 14, 2008
Walter Perez ("Friday Night Lights") plays Victor, a consummate, one-man band of a musician and an expert in Latino hip-hop. Anna Maria Perez de Tagle ("Hannah Montana," "Camp Rock") plays the gregarious Joy Moy, a unique, amped-up talent with a big heart and a LOT to say. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Did 'SOUTH PARK' go too far this time? Oct 11, 2008
" Todd Martens is a Los Angeles Times staff writer who tracks "Friday Night Lights. " Enid Portuguez is a freelance writer who tracks "Brothers and Sisters" and "Gossip Girl. (The Drudge Report)
Lights, camera ... incentives Oct 10, 2008
While Friday Night Lights has resumed filming in Austin, the show Prison Break opted not to return to Texas. Production is really, really slow, Hudgins says. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
Ex-player makes his own game film Oct 10, 2008
Having overseen the football action in 14 movies, including AnyGiven Sunday (1999), The Replacements (2000) and Friday Night Lights (2004), Graf has cast plenty of ex-NFL players. But for The Express, based on Syracuse's Ernie Davis in 1961 becoming the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy, he needed smaller players and ones who could adopt that era's playing styles. (USA Today -- Sports)
Come sail away with him Oct 10, 2008
It doesn't hurt that the young bucks in the film look like corn-fed extras from the small-town TV drama Friday Night Lights. Watching Morning Light in a theatre packed with boaters and yachtspersons, I realized the film is to them what Microcosmos is to entomologists. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Backfield Emotion Oct 10, 2008
THE Express" is a decent football movie, just about good enough to be the 40th best episode of "Friday Night Lights" . . . which has aired 39 episodes. Rob Brown, a likable if bland actor with an eager apple-pie face, plays Ernie Davis, who shook off poverty and racism to follow in Jim Brown's urgent footsteps in the Syracuse University football program in 1959. Thanks to the gruff-but-fair-ness of his only mildly racist coach (Dennis Quaid, borrowing Kevin Costner's look from "JFK"), Davis took... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Brea Grant gets off and running as latest 'Heroes' villain Oct 7, 2008
"It's been really fun to play out the comedy, in that he thinks he's a hero and she's not having it," says Grant, who was spotted by producers during a stint on Friday Night Lights. The Roadrunner-like chase, in which Hiro can slow but not stop Daphne, will continue, but she will move into more dramatic, life-and-death territory starting with a trip four years into the future in tonight's episode (9 ET/PT). (USA Today -- Life)
Comedy The Foreigner Opens at Silver Spur Theater Oct 3, 2008
Rebekah also has appeared on NBC TV's Friday Night Lights, as has Saladoan Tom Rolls who plays county property inspector (and racist) Owen Musser. He was Tonkawa Tom in the Spurs melodrama and is a Clown College alumnus and a former juggling instructor there. (KWTX.com, TX)
High School Athlete of the Week Oct 3, 2008
"Friday Night Lights." FAVORITE TV SHOW. "King of Queens.". (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
From yards to miles Sep 22, 2008
Inspired by the book "Friday Night Lights: A town, a team and a Dream," Theron Hopkins took the country's passion for high school football one step further. H. G. Bissinger wrote about the 1998 Permian High Panthers football team from Odessa, Texas, in his 1990 best-seller that eventually was made into a movie and a TV series. (Appeal Democrat, CA)
All Emmy blog posts Sep 22, 2008
NBC's "Friday Night Lights," conspicuously snubbed by Emmy voters, got its due in nabbing best new program ... (Pictured: Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler of "Friday Night Lights") ... The Acad likes to reward any new show that gets people talking about primetime TV. Perhaps the biggest surprise is the snub of critical, Peabody-winning darling "Friday Night Lights," especially in the lead acting categories for Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton. (Variety)
Quaid's visit lightens mood at "The Branch" Sep 19, 2008
friday night lights is hands down the best football movie ever ... And Friday Night Lights had almost too much of a docudrama like feel to it. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Emmy nominations that should have been Sep 18, 2008
And yes, "Friday Night Lights" and "Big Love" could have been considered, too, but this list is pretty solid ... And those choices are Dominic West from "The Wire," Kyle Chandler from "Friday Night Lights" and Eddie Izzard from "The Riches." Yes, I thought about Edward James Olmos from "Battlestar Galactica" and even Denis Leary in a subpar season of "Rescue Me." But West is long past due, Chandler is exceptional as both husband and coach in his series, and Izzard is devilishly odd and magnetic... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Desperate Housewives: Ask and you shall receive Sep 11, 2008
Im also working on Lost and Friday Night Lights. . (Variety)
Returning shows hope to shake up viewers Sep 5, 2008
With "Lost" and beloved but low-rated "Friday Night Lights" not coming back to regular television until midseason ("FNL" will be back sooner if you have DirectTV), what's in store for the rest of the more buzzed-about shows. (Spoiler warning: If you don't want to know what might happen on returning shows, stop reading now. (MSNBC -- Television)
'90210': New generation, same old story Sep 4, 2008
Don't get me started on the extraordinary "Friday Night Lights.". "90210" revolves around the Wilson family from Kansas, who move to Beverly Hills like the Walshes so many years before them. (Boston Globe)
Kazual's fate; "90210" redux Sep 3, 2008
These aren t deep, complex characters along the lines of those in Friday Night Lights. The plots are incredibly been there, done that and not remotely complicated. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
It's time to watch -- and wait Aug 31, 2008
Criminal Minds," "CSI: NY," "The New Adventures of Old Christine" (Sept. 24) . . . "Ugly Betty," "My Name Is Earl," "ER" (Sept. 25) . . . "Brothers & Sisters," Fox's Sunday animated lineup, "Cold Case," "The Unit" (Sept 28) . . . "Chuck" (Sept. 29) . . . "Friday Night Lights" (Oct. 1 on DirecTV, February on NBC) . . . "Ghost Whisperer," "Numb3rs," "Everybody Hates Chris," "The Game" (Oct. 3) . . . "Masterpiece Contemporary" (Oct. 5) . . . "Samantha Who. " (Oct. 6) . . . CSI: Crime Scene... (Boston Globe)
Open Court: Setting the tone Aug 24, 2008
No. 3: Friday Night Lights. One of the 10-best sports books of all-time somehow became an equally great sports film. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Review: 'Longshots' Falls Short Of Goal Line Aug 24, 2008
They should have been rousing and exciting (as they were in "Friday Night Lights") but instead are mundane and elementary. Palmer never looks comfortable throwing the ball and most plays are so heavily edited with close-ups that one never gets the sense she's making big passes. (NBC4.tv, CA)
Historic background helped Stafford prepare for SEC's intensity Aug 24, 2008
Friday Night Lights plays out for real every fall week in Texas. Fans turn out to watch preseason practice. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Becks in His Undies Aug 20, 2008
Everyone has been wondering for a little while now what's going on between Friday Night Lights starlet Minka Kelly and New York Yankee Derek Jeter and it seems to stem beyond just being buddies. A Pop Tarts spy spotted the two in an Austin Starbucks last week, sitting quietly together and attempting to keep a low profile. (Fox News)
West Texas oil patch towns reap benefits of boom Aug 19, 2008
When the bust came in the middle of the decade, folks in Odessa had little to feel good about, save for the success of its Permian Panthers, the football team celebrated in Friday Night Lights. A popular sticker at the time read: Please Lord let there be another boom. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
John Slattery finally earns recognition with an Emmy nod Aug 18, 2008
"He's wickedly smart and wickedly funny," says Kyle Chandler of "Friday Night Lights," a Slattery colleague from "Homefront.". "I think I probably have a fairly cynical sense of humor and that sort of stuff appeals to me," Slattery says of the lines he gets to spout as Sterling. (Boston Globe)
Matthew Gilbert's TV14: Emmy shame edition Aug 18, 2008
The Emmy voters tend to be stingy when it comes to teen actors such as the younger cast members on "Friday Night Lights" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." This bias was acutely obvious during the 1999-2002 run of "Once and Again," the broken-family drama from Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, when Evan Rachel Wood was not given any props ... "FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS" Of course this series is on the Emmy snub list, and near the top. (Boston Globe)
Group wants to convert Astrodome into sound stage, movie studio Aug 17, 2008
The dome already hosted some of the scenes from the movie Friday Night Lights four years ago and has been featured in other cinema productions like Bad News Bears in Breaking Training and Murder at the World Series. The idea to convert the Astrodome is similar to one in Austin where the city helped turn the old Mueller Airport hangers into a cutting edge studio. (KHOU.com, TX)
Going all-in: Reshuffling the deck Aug 10, 2008
the goal is to make the sports section about you, from those who don the pads under those Friday night lights to those kicking the soccer ball around the pasture. With the start of the school sports season around the corner, we're working on several changes that we hope will make The Sentinel's sports pages not only the place to go for the latest information on teams in our area, but the best and most exciting section possible. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Return of the Friday Night Lights (319) Aug 9, 2008
Return of the Friday Night Lights. Workers spent the afternoon Wednesday rewiring the Iris Theater sign that hangs in front of Books and Crannies on Moore Avenue. (Terrell Tribune, TX)
Director sued over AZ crash death Aug 8, 2008
Berg, whose directing credits include this summer's and previous films such as Friday Night Lights, was not injured in the crash. Type Size. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Propmasters parents sue Berg over sons death Aug 8, 2008
Berg, whose directing credits include this summers blockbuster Hancock and previous films such as Friday Night Lights, was not injured in the crash. 2008 The Associated Press. (MSNBC -- News)
Network TV likes sex, study finds Aug 7, 2008
The drama Friday Night Lights is better than most in showing positive portrayals of marital relations and intimacy, he said in a telephone conference, while the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris depicts a strong married relationship. (). (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Study: Network TV Likes Sex, But Not Marriage Aug 6, 2008
The drama "Friday Night Lights" is "better than most in showing positive portrayals of marital relations and intimacy," he said in a telephone conference, while the sitcom "Everybody Hates Chris" depicts a strong married relationship. Share. (Fox News)
Critic's corner Aug 4, 2008
A slew of actors from "Gossip Girl," "One Tree Hill," and "Friday Night Lights" appears ... A slew of actors from "Gossip Girl," "One Tree Hill," and "Friday Night Lights" appears. (Boston Globe)
'Guiding Light' shakes things up Jul 29, 2008
The hand-held work on "Friday Night Lights" also asks us to sit forward, while the freely moving cameras allow the actors to let their emotions guide their marks. The improvisation between camera and actor on "FNL" evokes the informality of small-town life. (Boston Globe)
Critic's Corner chat Jul 29, 2008
I think "Grey's Anatomy" and "Friday Night Lights" both would have been worthy contenders in the drama category - better, I think, than "Damages." And in comedy, I would have put "Pushing Daisies," "The Big Bang Theory" or "The New Adventures of Old Christine" ahead of "Curb" and "Entourage." If you don't mind, I also want to use you question to raise another point. Though you haven't done this, many of the rest of us beat up on the Emmys, and with good reason. (USA Today -- Life)
Comic-Con: 'Pineapple Express' Jul 28, 2008
Category: Comic-Con 2008. To a cacophony of screams and whoops, Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki filed onto the stage for the panel at on Sunday (along with show creator Eric Kripke and writers Sera Gamble and Ben Edlund). (CNN -- Showbiz)
Comic-Con: All the Saturday scoop Jul 27, 2008
Category: Comic-Con 2008. The funniest event at. (CNN -- Showbiz)
New EIU guide tops a 'phone book' moment Jul 22, 2008
We spend much of August getting tired of the preseason chores just wanting the first Friday night lights. As much as I sit in July waiting to see an Eastern Illinois football scrimmage, after a few plays the realization returns that none of this counts, I m not smart enough to really make any preseason analysis from EIU against EIU and that all I really want is that Aug. 28 kickoff at Central Michigan. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Hey, friend, do I know you? Jul 21, 2008
Not that long ago, I needed some advice on the book business and thought to ask my friend Buzz Bissinger, the author of "Friday Night Lights" and "A Prayer for the City." The only sticking point was, we'd never met ... "Friday Night Lights" became a movie and then a television series and apart from me being a hopeless fanboy of the show, we have nothing in common. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Emmy noms reax: TV critics aren't too critical! Some are, egad, happy! Jul 19, 2008
Says Matt Roush of , "Lets hail the Emmy voters for recognizing the creative rebirth of 'Lost' this season, which had fallen off the list since winning best drama for its first season. And what a pleasant shock to see the Emmys embrace (only a year late) the twisted brilliance of 'Dexter' in its second year for coming into its own with plotting that never stopped. Of the three cable dramas vying for the Emmy, 'Dexter' was a much bigger surprise for me than the success of 'Mad Men' and... (Los Angeles Times)
Emmys fond of dear 'John' Jul 19, 2008
The most buzzed-about oversights include NBCs Friday Night Lights and the final season of HBOs critically acclaimed The Wire. NBCs Heroes, which finished its season early because of the writers strike, was also omitted after landing a mention for its maiden flight. (Variety)
Emmy nominations show cable's creative force Jul 19, 2008
Once again, we have Boston Legal but no Friday Night Lights. More nominations for Charlie Sheen, Holland Taylor and Jon Cryer, but no John Krasinski ( The Office ), or Michael Urie and Becki Newton of Ugly Betty. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
It all adds up for 'Mad Men' Jul 18, 2008
No major nominations for "Friday Night Lights'' and "Big Love ... It's hard to understand how ABC's "Boston Legal,'' which is past its prime, and "Two and a Half Men,'' which never had a prime, continue to rake in the kudos while "How I Met Your Mother'' squeaks by with only one significant nomination (Neil Patrick Harris).That is the wonder and the weirdness of award shows, I guess - that actors such as Mariska Hargitay and James Spader seem to get free passes onto the nominee list every year,... (Boston Globe)
Emmys credibility down to The Wire, again Jul 18, 2008
Ill be the first to admit that the second season of Friday Night Lights wasnt as good as the first, but Kyle Chandler needs to be here. Period. (MSNBC -- News)
Preview: Emmy Nominations Thursday Jul 17, 2008
Among the 10 finalists previously named by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences are "Boston Legal," "Damages," "Dexter," "Friday Night Lights," "Grey's Anatomy," "House," "Lost," "Mad Men," "The Tudors" and "The Wire.". Noticeably absent from the list of Best Drama finalists is "Heroes," which scored a nod in the top category for debut season last year, but was hampered by shortened season this year due to the strike by the Writers Guild of America. (Click2Houston, TX)
Emmy's list Jul 15, 2008
On a down note, expect The Wire and Friday Night Lights to be snubbed once again, along with Dexter, even though all three programs made the list of finalists ... Myself, I'd rather watch a Wire or Friday Night Lights rerun than watch a new episode of Grey's, but then I don't get an Emmy vote ... I do vote for the TCA Awards, however, and I'm perfectly happy with the TCA's list of drama nominees: Damages, Friday Night Lights, Lost, Mad Men and The Wire. (Canada.com)
State of the Hogs: DeMarcus Love Jul 13, 2008
Love, 6-5, 302-pound sophomore-to-be from Dallas Carter, burst on the national scene as a high school sophomore when he helped out in a small role in the hit movie Friday Night Lights. The climax of Friday Night Lights pits Odessa Permian against Dallas Carter in the Texas state high school title game. (HawgsIllustrated.com)
Will 'The Wire' tie up its run with Emmy win? Jul 13, 2008
Drama seriesFriday Night LightsHouseLostMad MenThe WireDont forget about: Damages ... Granted, Friday Night Lights probably wasnt as good in season two as when it first began, but it's still mighty impressive. (MSNBC -- News)
TV Land Follows Sports Legend and Grillionaire George Foreman in New Original Reality Series 'Family Foreman' Premiering Wednesday, July 16 Jul 13, 2008
Finishing his sophomore year at the University of Redlands, "Big Wheel" has traded the "Foreman spotlight" for "Friday night lights" as a running back on his college football team. Very popular and smart in high school, he has had some time to grow up even more while being away from his family. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Having an open mind may help understand ‘Hancock’ quirks Jul 7, 2008
The saturated colors and director Peter Berg s ( Friday Night Lights ) fondness for close-ups are distractions, not enhancements. Even though playing a big old jerk (actually he s called another word that starts with an A that my editor wouldn t want me to use) Smith s innate goodness shines through. (Friendswood Journal, TX)
IGN Observes and Reports Jul 6, 2008
The two clash over tactics and jurisdiction of the mall, but Ronnie has the backing of his own special task force, including fellow security guards Michael Pena (Crash) and Jesse Plemons (Friday Night Lights). Anna Faris also stars as Ronnie's love interest, who also works at the mall. (IGN FilmForce)
Will Smith appealing as crude hero in 'Hancock' Jul 5, 2008
It ought to be clear that director Peter Berg ("The Kingdom," "Friday Night Lights") wouldn't have signed on for a mindless superhero comedy. He pushes the PG-13 limit with language, action (a prison scene with Hancock doling out his own brand of punishment is shocking but also painfully hilarious) and seamlessly rendered, visceral special effects. (The Trentonian, NJ)
Braylon Edwards goes Hollywood Jul 4, 2008
His smile grows into a full-blown grin when he's introduced to his hosts, Friday Night Lights executive producers Peter Berg and Sarah Aubrey ... In case you haven't seen the infamous YouTube clips, Edwards didn't get one word in for six straight minutes as author Buzz Bissinger (the guy who wrote Friday Night Lights) cussed out Deadspin editor Will Leitch. (ESPN -- Football News)
* [FILM REVIEW] 'Hancock' the sardonic superhero Jul 4, 2008
And the scruffy, handheld camera aesthetic Berg perfected on Friday Night Lights and The Kingdom is a nice tool for sullying the pristine CGI unreality of all those Marvel Comics movies we've been buried in. FILM NOTE. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Film review: 'Hancock,' a superhero in need of a shave Jul 4, 2008
Berg, who explored heroism of a different stripe in his poignant high school football movie, "Friday Night Lights," and showed off terrific action chops in the underrated flick "The Kingdom," is not a comedy natural. He squeezes laughs out of "Hancock" - Bateman needs no goosing - though some of its biggest yuks are fairly yucky, like a cringing bit involving a bizarre variant on prison rape. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
JETER Q&A: Yankee star on Page Six, the thong and more Jul 3, 2008
They said you were Friday Night Lights star, Minka Kelly. Jeter: Hanging out. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Movie About Underachiever Superhero Underachieves Jul 3, 2008
Peter Berg may be best-known for the 2004 football drama Friday Night Lights, but he has surprisingly sharp instincts as a comic director. (His feature debut was the pitch-black 1998 cult comedy Very Bad Things. (Slate)
Hancock review: Remember Will Smiths Wild Wild West? Well Jul 2, 2008
Right off the bat, director Peter Bergs extreme close-ups (this is not Friday Night Lights. and shaky camerawork started throwing me off the blockbuster scent. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
July 4: Will Smith's Holiday Jul 2, 2008
" For more than a decade, he's been immune to moviegoers' fickle fashions. His films have earned $4.5 billion worldwide. And except for his pro bono work in Ali (for which he won an Academy Award nomination) and Robert Redford's The Legend of Bagger Vance, every Will Smith movie has been a hit or smash, earning at least $100 million in North America and another $100 million or more abroad. Sometimes lots more. Start with Independence Day: $306m at home, $511m abroad, for a worldwide $817m (back... (Time.com)
In 'Hancock,' weaknesses outweigh strengths Jul 1, 2008
Director Peter Berg ("Friday Night Lights," "The Kingdom") has a knack for movies with a bulldozing style. But he usually finds a way to balance the noise with either gags or solemnity. (Boston Globe)
Top 100 books of last 25 years Jul 1, 2008
Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990). Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Not-so-superhero puts superstar to the test Jul 1, 2008
Directed by the usually first-rate Peter Berg ( Friday Night Lights, the film and the TV series), Hancock is a film with an identity crisis. At the outset, it engrossingly builds the story of an unkempt, indestructible guy in shades, sleeping on benches who grabs at passing women, snorts his nostrils clean and generally treats people poorly, including himself. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
