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NBC Saves "Friday Night Lights" With Help From DirecTV

Deadline Hollywood Daily   |  Nikki Finke   |   March 6, 2008 08:54 AM

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This is great news to that small but passionate audience for the best TV series you're not watching. I'm told that Jeff Zucker, Marc Graboff and Ben Silverman had been searching for a way to renew the critically acclaimed but low-rated Friday Night Lights for a 3rd season so that it would still make financial sense. The answer came in a deal with DirecTV, now owned by John Malone's Liberty Media. Clearly Malone is looking to distinguish DirecTV from its rivals on a content as well as price basis. "It's an innovative deal where NBC found a partner who will share costs and exhibition windows," an insider explained to me. So both NBC and DirecTV will be airing Friday Night Lights across multipurpose platforms.


 
 

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- MajorKong See Profile I'm a Fan of MajorKong

I didn't like high school football players when I was in high school. Why would I want to watch a TV show about them?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:10 AM on 03/07/2008
- aznurse See Profile I'm a Fan of aznurse

Yahoo!! when will the last shows of this season show?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:06 PM on 03/06/2008
- leftbehind2000 See Profile I'm a Fan of leftbehind2000

This is great news.

So many times, great shows disappear long before they are "over" simply because ratings weren't on a desired level. Remember "Freaks & Geeks?" That was such a great show. Glad to see FNL will not be suffering the same fate - at least not for another season.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:53 PM on 03/06/2008
- Ramirez See Profile I'm a Fan of Ramirez

Great news. FNL is the best series on network TV.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:40 PM on 03/06/2008
- ChiGuy See Profile I'm a Fan of ChiGuy

Fan-freakin'-tastic!

An incredibly well done show on network television is a rarity because of the limited (but extremely smart in this case) audience it draws.

The free-form, improvisational structure of the dialog is without question its best feature.

FNL deserves this shot.

One statement in the article troubles me though:

"I'm a big fan of the hour-long high school football drama (which is really about horny teens and their hornswoggled parents)..."

This is a patently deceptive description done for the sake of humor or wittiness, and it is false.

The show has its teen romance moments, but they are VERY few and far between.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:50 AM on 03/06/2008
- kellygrrrl See Profile I'm a Fan of kellygrrrl

YAY YAY YAY!!!!

the prob with FNL was it didn't hit its target audience: The TX crowd and Football Folk.

BUT

it did hit a whole different audience - and WE love this show!!!!!!!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:08 AM on 03/06/2008
- MzTexas See Profile I'm a Fan of MzTexas

I'm sure this is a great television show, but for folks who grew up in West Texas having to play against the Permian Panthers (the team on which this show is based) and the extra guys in black and white (the referees in the tank for them) . . . just not interested. The only times I've watched, I did so to watch a friend who occasionally plays one of those guys in black and white.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:15 AM on 03/06/2008
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