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EXCLUSIVE: PodcastOne is partnering with original Friday Night Lights cast members Zach Gilford, Scott Porter and self-proclaimed superfan Mae Whitman for an exclusive podcast and vodcast called It's Not Only Football: Friday Night Lights and Beyond. Debuting November 10, the weekly show will be…

Gary Gaines, the Texas high school football coach featured in Buzz Bissinger's 1990 nonfiction book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream and portrayed in the 2004 film version by Billy Bob Thornton, died Monday in Lubbock, Texas, of Alzheimer's disease. He was 73. His death was announced by his family to…

EXCLUSIVE: Crown Media Family Networks has nabbed another big star before the Christmas movie season. Aimeé Teegarden (Friday Night Lights, Star-Crossed) has signed an exclusive multi-picture overall deal with the company. "Aimeé’s charming performances have resonated with viewers and critics alike, we are thrilled to…

Connie Britton (The White Lotus), Taylor Schilling (Pam and Tommy) and Colin O'Brien (Wonka) headline Dear Edward, a drama written and executive produced by Jason Katims, which has received a formal series greenlight by Apple TV+. The 10-episode series, based on the novel by Ann Napolitano, reunites former Friday Night…

EXCLUSIVE: Friday Night Lights is joining the ranks of TV series to get its own rewatch podcast series. Derek Phillips, who played Billy Riggins, brother of Taylor Kitsch's Tim Riggins, and Stacey Oristano, who played his on-screen wife Mindy Collette-Riggins, are to host Clear Eyes, Full Hearts: A Friday Night Lights…

Friday Night Lights cast members Adrianne Palicki (Tyra Collette), Taylor Kitsch (Tim Riggins), Derek Phillips (Billy Riggins) and Stacey Oristano (Mindy Collette/Mindy Riggins) reunited virtually Friday for an ATX Television Festival panel to kick off the event’s remote 2020 edition. The four reminisced about some of…

Score two for two TV teams: Tonight’s Emmy Awards for FX’s The Americans provided a parallel to the final-season wins of another critically acclaimed but underrated drama: Friday Night Lights. In 2011, Friday Night Lights, the intimate story of a high school football team in small-town Texas, scored an Outstanding…

Stronger helmer David Gordon Green is negotiating to direct a new film for Universal Pictures based on Friday Night Lights, the 2004 film based on Buzz Bissinger non-fiction book that captured the glory, heart, sweat, heartbreak and pressure that goes into small-town America’s obsession with high school football each…

Friday Night Lights is now available for streaming on Hulu. All five seasons of the iconic series landed at Hulu as part of a deal with NBCUniversal. The Hulu launch comes a few weeks after Friday Night Lights became available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video under the NBCU pact. Friday Night Lights joins other…

Today at TCA following the panel for his new NBC drama series Rise, Jason Katims shed some light on whether there would ever be a reboot of his Emmy-winning series Friday Night Lights or Parenthood in the near future. “At some point we talked about a Friday Night Lights movie, but that we are not doing,” said Katims…

Tonight as part of the ATX Television Festival, most of the cast of NBC’s acclaimed 2006-2011 series Friday Night Lights reunited at an event on the streets of Austin to mark the show’s 10th anniversary. Among those present at the event, staged like a high school rally, were Gaius Charles, Scott Porter, Adrianne…

EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Kitsch will make his feature directorial debut and will star in Pieces, a drama that he also wrote. This puts Kitsch back together with Lone Survivor cohorts Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films’ Randall Emmett and George Furla, and Peter Berg and his Film44. E/F/O will finance the film, and Emmett and Furla…