Network: NBC, DirecTV’s The 101
Episodes: Ongoing (hour)
Seasons: Ongoing
TV show dates: October 3, 2006 – present
Series status: Has not been cancelled
Performers include: Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Zach Gilford, Minka Kelly, Taylor Kitsch, Adrianne Palicki, Aimee Teegarden, Jesse Plemons, Gaius Charles, Scott Porter, Derek Phillips, Blue Deckert, Brad Leland, Liz Mikel, Stacey Oristano, Nieko Mann, Kevin Rankin, and Kate Krause.
TV show description:
Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this drama follows the Dillon, Texas community and high school football team.
Coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), wife Tami (Connie Britton) and daughter Julie (Aimee Teegarden) move to the small community as the series begins.
Students and players include shy quarterback Matt Saracen (Zach Gilford), egotistical running back Smash Williams (Gaius Charles), sullen fullback Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch), paralyzed former quarterback Jason Street (Scott Porter), musician Landry Clarke (Jesse Plemons), former cheerleader Lyla Garrity (Minka Kelly), and Tyra Collette (Adrianne Palicki).
Related links
Friday Night Lights on iTunes || FNL book & movie || Kyle Chandler on DVD
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I certainly hope that Friday Night Lights continues and is not cancelled. I am so sick of reality and game shows and police dramas. This show has a lot to offer different populations and is perfectly casted. It even has a couple that has remained married! The show has shown how they have worked out challenges in their marriage, a good example for people of all ages. They have also shown how a star athlete has worked through a life-altering injury to find a future These are just two examples of its depth of character development. I look forward to it each week. Honestly, I have just about given up on NBC creating anything akin to the high quality shows of its heyday. Please do not sentence every television viewer to one or two types of shows. It may not get the highest rating, but it ensures that viewers have choices in the shows that they watch–a quality choice.
Amen “Brenda said”! I love the show too and wish that the networks would understand that the days of watching the Nielsen ratings only has got to go. We are in a world of DVR’s and TiVo’s. I LOVE THIS SHOW! I NEVER MISS AN EPISODE, but I am one that has to DVR it and watch it later. It doesn’t mean we aren’t watching, we’re just playing it back later.
This show is so amazing and I wish I could personally hold the hand of all I know and drag them to the set to watch it. It IS indeed perfectly casted. And the show is truly a depiction of football in Texas.
I grew up in a school like this and lived life with football being that important. Texas is serious about footbal. However, that is NOT all this show is about and it reaches deeper on so many levels. This show isn’t just for kids, it is great for all ages. Heck, my grandmother watches it! LOL! She loves it!
As you said Brenda, this show touches on things that touch us all in day to day life. It is a positive image on how we can overcome difficult issues in life in many positive ways. I love that the Coach and his wife, now the principal…have inspired children by being a positive example and by fighting through their own VERY REAL issues.
They’ve touched on “almost” rapes, teen drinking, low self-esteem, racial issues, poverty issues, financial issues, elderly grandparents (and medical issues), college hopes…preparation and acceptances and so much more. I could go on and on.
This is an incredible drama series and I’m completely hooked. WE’RE WATCHING NBC! So please keep the show on…and keep this cast going. The show is incredible, but it is this cast that makes it that way. Great work and kudos to you all!
Okay, though we really don’t go running around and saying this down here in Texas….I will still give a big “YEE HAW” to Friday Night Lights!
Friday Night Lights is a well-written & well cast show that also provides parents and their children a great opportunity to discuss real life situations. The interaction & relationship between Eric & Tami is outstanding! They provide a wonderful example as husband and wife who in spite of their differences accept, support, and respect each other. They portray two people who sometimes struggle, but consistently strive to be good parents and to provide a “united-front” to their daughter, Julie.
Friday Night Lights is an entertaining program even for those viewer not interested in football. On a deeper level, the program provides viewers an opportunity to learn interpersonal skills by utilizing the character traits of Eric and Tami.
The “mother/daughter” talk between Tami & Julie was a brilliant example of what to say to a daughter regarding sex. Tami addressed the emotional aspect of sex for girls
Loved the show. Very realistic of a small town team. Last I heard, the Coach of the Panthers was staying put, and his wife was going to the poor side of town (which is in my small KS town the Southside of the tracks) I am all geared up, but have not seen when it is playing on NBC. I have Brighthouse now. Whats up.