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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…

CMT is heading into the 2015-2016 season with five new original series, including a scripted series starring Billy Ray Cyrus, a reality show featuring American Idol favorite Kellie Pickler from Ryan Seacrest Productions, a limited series about the history of NASCAR narrated by Dale Earnhardt Jr, and the network’s…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed actor Taylor Kitsch. Here’s the guy who — after playing one of the great recent TV characters in fullback Tim Riggins on Friday Night Lights and then a small but showy role as Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine — seemed like he was going to be the next big leading man. That was before he…

EXCLUSIVE:When Imagine Entertainment partners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard re-upped in their 26th year at Universal in early 2012, like all studio term producers they watched the deal get smaller. They also went from exclusive to first look and while that might have humbled less energetic founders who’d made 50 films…

Friday Night Lights creator Peter Bergwants the GOP presidential candidate to stop using the expression "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose" from his former NBC show. Berg's letter comes just days after Buzz Bissinger, who wrote the book upon which the series is based, announced that he was going to vote for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Friday Night Lights executive producer David Hudgins has signed a new overall deal with Universal Television to develop projects for the studio and work on existing series. Hudgins has a longtime association with Uni TV-based FNL developer/executive producer Jason Katims. Hudgins worked on FNL for…

EXCLUSIVE: Kyle Chandler is the latest name to join the ensemble of the untitled Kathryn Bigelow-directed drama about the Navy SEAL Team 6’s long hunt for Osama bin Laden. That hunt culminated with the fatal shooting last year of the Al-Qaeda leader and mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I’ve heard that…