FridayNightLights-related stories
Posted Nov 19th 2009 9:29AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E04) Life is what happens while you're busy making plans. Matt hasn't exactly been the architect of his future, but the Dillon former quarterback has been plugging along. This week found Saracen in the cross hairs emotionally. The Taylors, meanwhile, continue to struggle through the professional turmoil, and the younger set in Dillon has definite issues -- some good, some not-so-good.
Then there's Buddy Garrity. If he's not a Panther anymore, and he denounced his identity with the West Dillon team last week, what is he? As he told Eric, the beauty of boosterism is that it comes from the heart. Where's Buddy's heart now? More on that and the rest, after the jump.
Continue reading Review: Friday Night Lights - A Sort of a Homecoming
Posted Nov 12th 2009 1:10AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E03) There's so much that's right about
Friday Night Lights this new season that it probably sounds like I'm overdoing it with the positive notices. However, the way they've shaken up Eric and Tami's life together in Dillon has been terrific.
The gerrymandering for the town, sending Eric to coach a poor school with a tattered football squad is inspired storytelling. And Tami's not in a better place back at West Dillon because
she sent Luke Cafferty to East Dillon, the school he was supposed to be attending. The Boosters are not happy with Tami. Eric's not sleeping. What's going to happen now?
Continue reading Review: Friday Night Lights - In the Skin of a Lion
Posted Nov 5th 2009 12:42AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E02) In case you think the Coach Eric Taylor has all the answers, this episode shows that's not always the way it is. In last week's show, the East Dillon Lions were so awful, Coach couldn't take it. He threw in the towel, which is a boxing term, but by forfeiting the game at half-time, that's what he did in football terms.
Things were hardly better for Tami at Dillon, although by comparison, her school looks like paradise. Eric's on the other side of paradise. More about that and the rest of the players, on field and off, after the jump.
Continue reading Review: Friday Night Lights - After the Fall
Posted Oct 28th 2009 4:38PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Programming, Ask TV Squad, Friday Night Lights, Reality-Free, FlashForward
The "
Ask TV Squad" column, published every Wednesday, answers your questions about current and past TV shows, as well as about the celebrities appearing on TV. Every week, I will pick a question (or more) sent to us and provide answers in the column. If your question is not picked for a column, it may be answered in a subsequent column or in
TV Squad's APB Podcast. To submit questions to the "Ask TV Squad" column, you can post them below in comments or email them at
asktvsquad@gmail.com.
This week, I answer questions about Jamie Ray Newman,
FlashForward, Friday Night Lights and
Surviving Disaster.
Continue reading Ask TV Squad: Friday Night Lights, FlashForward and more!
Posted Sep 20th 2009 5:08PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Friday Night Lights, Reality-Free, The Big Bang Theory
If
Jim Parsons wins the
Emmy tonight for The Big Bang Theory, you better believe he'll be in a position to pick and choose the projects he does in the future. But here's one that I think would be fascinating, to quote Dr. Sheldon Cooper's favorite Vulcan scientist:
Jim Parsons would like to appear on Friday Night Lights.
In a recent interview, Jim was asked about his favorite current show -- other than his own -- and he said it was
Friday Night Lights. That's right, the NBC drama series about high school football deep in the heart of Texas! Somehow it's hard to imagine Sheldon in pads and a helmet. Maybe he could be the water boy? Or the genius offensive coordinator.
Continue reading Jim Parsons on Friday Night Lights? If he had his way...
Posted Aug 14th 2009 11:02AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Early Looks, Upfronts
Previewing NBC's fall offerings has been a long process. First I gave you
Community and Trauma, then
Parenthood. Now, I have NBC's second medical drama that's premiering this year:
Mercy. While
Trauma follows first responders in San Francisco,
Mercy follows nurses in a hospital in New York.
While it's true that I've seen the pilot and should be able to give you some insight into what to expect when it premieres (Wednesday September 23, at 8 PM ), the fact is, every single thing you need to know about
Mercy is summed up in its synopsis:
"Nurse Veronica Callahan (
Taylor Schilling) has just returned to Mercy Hospital from a tour in Iraq and knows more about medicine than all of the residents combined. Together with fellow nurses Sonia Jimenez (
Jaime Lee Kirchner) who turns the heads of everyone at Mercy hospital and Chloe Payne (
Michelle Trachtenberg) a naïve newcomer who learns to deal with the difficulties of working in a challenging and sometimes unsettling profession, they navigate the daily traumas and social landmines of life and love both inside the hospital and out."
Continue reading TV Squad previews NBC's new shows (Part 3)
Posted Aug 5th 2009 2:21PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, The Apprentice, Saturday Night Live, The Office, Heroes, 30 Rock, TCA Press Tour, Chuck, Reality-Free
We just got done with the NBC executive session, where primetime entertainment head Angela Bromstad and alternative programming (read: reality) chief Paul Telegdy took the reporters questions.
Of course, many of the questions had to do with
The Jay Leno Show and Ben Silverman's departure. What the gathered reporters got out of the two executives was evasiveness, referrals to other executives, and a general sense that the two of them either don't know or don't want to provide answers about their own network.
When the question of Leno and
CBS's Nina Tassler's assertion that NBC would declare victory no matter what numbers they got, Bromstad tried to pass us to the session for Leno's show later in the day. Telegdy did the same. But we wouldn't let them off the hook. An example exchange, for instance, went like this:
Continue reading NBC execs don't seem to know much about NBC - TCA Report
Posted May 12th 2009 5:01PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Celebrities, Friday Night Lights, Casting, Reality-Free
Taylor Kitsch made the leap from TV to the big screen with a memorable appearance as Gambit in the hit film
X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But the
Friday Night Lights star isn't ready to forget his TV roots.
Kitsch is reportedly
open to returning to Friday Night Lights next season as Dillon bad boy Tim Riggins. Of course, viewers of NBC's low-rated but highly praised drama know that Riggins should be spending most of his time in San Antonio State next year. So how exactly would he fit into season four of
FNL, based in the fictional town of Dillon, TX?
Continue reading Will Tim Riggins be back for season four of Friday Night Lights?
Posted Mar 3rd 2009 3:02PM by Hemal Jhaveri
Filed under: Programming, Interviews, Celebrities, Friday Night Lights, Reality-Free
So, is Friday Night Lights coming back for one more season? Stacey Oristano, who plays Tyra Collette's delightfully trashy but good-hearted sister
Mindy, was nice enough to talk to
TV Squad and give us a little bit of dirt on the show.
I talked to Stacey while she was out in LA (her first time there, she said) and asked her what all
FNL fans really want to know. After the jump, Stacey talks about her hopes for another season, the backstage antics of the cast, and why Taylor Kitsch can't keep his pants on.
Continue reading Stacey Oristano chats about Friday Night Lights
Posted Feb 20th 2009 10:03AM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is
Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at
TV Squad where we supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
tips form or by emailing us at
tvsquad at gmail dot com, or call and leave a message at
(775) 640-8479. Your anonymity is guaranteed, if you wish to remain as such.
This week we have:
24, Big Love, Bones, Brothers & Sisters, Friday Night Lights, Heroes, Lost, Nip/Tuck, Smallville, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and United States of Tara. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Feb 18th 2009 11:30AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, 24, American Idol, Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, Heroes, TV Squad Lists, TV Squad Ten
Bromances have been around, well, forever really, but you'd never use the term for say, Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte (
48 Hours) or Paul Newman and Robert Redford (
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). That just wouldn't be right! And besides that, when do "buddies" turn into "bromantic pals"? Would love to hear your thoughts on that.
At any rate, "bromance" is part of our language now, and it's even the title of
an MTV show starring Brody Jenner and his buds.
I'm not ashamed to say I have girl-crushes on a few TV babes (
True Blood's Sookie Stackhouse springs to mind), so it's not unfeasible for a guy to have a man-crush on another guy. I don't know if that's true for all these pairings, but since I'm writing this, we'll say it is. Take a look at my top ten bromances on TV right now:
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: Top Bromances on TV right now
Posted Jan 24th 2009 3:30AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(
S03E02) That episode title gets right to the heart of one of the main stories this week. Although, perhaps it should have been followed by a question mark. The backlash from Tami's decision to nix the jumbotron, which we all knew was coming, started this week, and things don't look so good for our favorite principal. Meanwhile, Brian continued to search for Smash, Tyra went back to basics for her campaign, Tim and Lyla continued the vicious cycle, and we got a little peek into Matt Saracen's past. It all made for a very good hour of television.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights: Tami Knows Best
Posted Jan 17th 2009 2:16AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Friday Night Lights, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(
S03E01) And so begins phase two of NBC's grand
Friday Night Lights experiment. The show kicked off it's third season on NBC Friday night, but all of these episodes have already been shown on DirecTV. Allison
reviewed the premiere back in October, but we thought we'd run it up the flagpole again and see who salutes.
Despite the delay for those of us without DirecTV, the season premiere made it so easy to slip right back into the series. Most of our favorite Dillonites are back, and we were quickly brought up to speed with what each of them has been up to. We also got a good look at where a lot of these stories will be heading.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights: I Knew You When (NBC Season Premiere)
Posted Jan 3rd 2009 11:03AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Breaking Bad, Reality-Free
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ... and a lot of it happened right on our TV screens. As we look forward to 2009, here's one more glimpse back at what was good and what was really NOT in the year gone by.
Overall, it seems like the Writer's Strike really hurt the business. Shows that might have survived, didn't. New shows have been stuck in development longer than usual. But despite all that, there were moments that were thrilling, shows that are terrific ... and those that weren't.
Continue reading Best and Worst of 2008: Allison's list
Posted Nov 27th 2008 1:01PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, TV on DVD, OpEd, Cancellations, Friday Night Lights, TV Squad Lists, Pushing Daisies, Reality-Free, Life on Mars, The Mentalist
It's Thanksgiving morning right now and I'm sitting in my dad's kitchen watching people cook. I'm thankful for so many things this year, but since this is a TV site, let's talk about the things in TV that I'm thankful for--things besides the murder that the poor Detroit Lions are going to face at the hands of the Tennessee Titans today.
1. Netflix Watch InstantlyI've had Netflix basically since its inception, but with all of the TV that I watch, my Netflix movies have had a bad habit of collecting dust for months (I finally sent
No Country for Old Men back after about six months on top of my DVD player). Even though I've known about the Watch Instantly feature for a while, I've never actually tried it out. I just watched
Friday Night Lights Season 2, and let me tell you. it's so nice to just hit "Next" and have all of the episodes right there without having to change disks. Does that make me ridiculously lazy? Probably. I don't care.
Continue reading What Kona is thankful for
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