So it’s official: Friday Night Lights will return for a 3rd season. Basically, the show gets all these awards, and critics seem to love it, but the ratings are just really low, so the show is always on the brink of cancellation. People just don’t watch it, mostly because they think it’s about football or something that only guys would watch. Well, the football does provide a sort of location and constant backstory, but I’d say it’s about 10% of the show, and the rest is about real life. The show is so realistic, the acting is so good, and I just love the way the cinematography works in harmony with the soundtrack from Austin-based “Explosions in the Sky.” So anyway, the higher-ups at NBC are big fans of the show, and the main reason why Friday Night Lights was even able to have a 2nd season, although a shortened one because of the strike. Since NBC didn’t want to foot the complete bill of picking up FNL for a 3rd season, DirecTV is going to be broadcasting the 3rd season first, I think Fall of 2008, and then NBC will re-broadcast it Spring of 2008. They’ll start shooting in August, and depending on where I’m at and what I’m doing, I might consider being an extra in the show again. Although, the two episodes of the 2nd season where I was an extra, I was basically shown on national TV as a guy who could not dance and a guy who texts too much on his Treo in a cafeteria. What? It was like a 12 hour work day and I was bored! Good thing I was very much in the background and just another face in the crowd, so even if someone was looking for me while watching those episodes, I highly doubt they’d be able to find me. That’s why I have graciously attached screenshots. :P Please, please watch the show if you can! I think you’d be quite surprised at how good it really is. The 1st and 2nd seasons are available for $19-$20 each on Amazon if you ever want to catch up. I’d say those are quite reasonable prices. And I think they even have a guarantee that if you don’t like it, you can mail it back to them and they will refund the cost back to you.
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