We’re getting people pulled in not because the drama is so foreign to them, so that’s exciting and that’s why they watch, but we’re pulling them in because it’s a drama they’ve gone through and they can relate to. For the rest of the interview with Gilford, click below. Continue reading "Zach Gilford of 'Friday Night Lights'" Jesse Plemons plays Landry Clarke, quarterback Matt Saracen's best friend, on Friday Night Lights.
Landry is also lead singer in Crucifictorious, Dillon's hottest unsigned band. I grew up in a town just like this. So I think the reason why I’ve so much fun with it is there are so many people I can think back to.
For the rest of my interview with Plemons, click below. Continue reading "Jesse Plemons of 'Friday Night Lights'" Scott Porter plays Jason Street, the former quarterback for the Dillon Panthers, on “Friday Night Lights.” Kyle said at the very beginning, ‘For those of you, this is your first show, you’re spoiled.
It’ll never be like this again. So cherish it while it lasts.’ And he said that for himself and Connie, who had done television before, it’s going to be so hard to go back to shooting regular television.
Because you feel like you’re part of the creative process here. They trust us, and vice versa. To read the rest of my interview with Porter, click below.
Continue reading "Scott Porter of 'Friday Night Lights'" in Friday Night Lights | Permalink | Comments (1) Minka Kelly plays Lyla Garrity, daughter of Buddy Garrity and fiancé of Jason Street, on “Friday Night Lights.” When you’re that young, and you’re so in love, and you’re so afraid of losing that person, you’ll do anything to hold on to them and keep them. I think out of that desperation and panic, she melted.
He was so vulnerable, and in that time, [he] was like, ‘Who else is going to love me? I can’t lose her.' For the rest of my interview with Kelly, click below.
Continue reading "Minka Kelly of 'Friday Night Lights'" in Friday Night Lights | Permalink | Comments (2) asked about “Friday Night Lights’” chances at a second season. “Well, it depends if you want me to put my emotional hat on, my lover of TV hat on – it’s 100 percent,” he said. “If you want me to put my business hat on, it’s 55 percent.
Let all those factors weigh in, and [its chances] are somewhere in between.” Can fans of the show influence those chances as NBC firms up its fall lineup over the next couple of months? Who knows.
But even if they can’t, it never hurts to show your devotion for a show when that program’s future is in doubt. So how can you register your vote for another season of “Friday Night Lights”? Go to fnl-online.
com for creative ideas on how to lobby NBC and leave your praise for the show at fightforlights.com. Or just write a note to Reilly himself care of the NBC Entertainment, 3000 West Alameda Ave.
, Burbank, CA 91523. You can also voice your opinion by going to www.nbc.
com/Footer/Contact_Us/. Photo: Adrianne Palicki, Tyra Collette on Friday Night Lights. in Friday Night Lights | Permalink | Comments (5) Friday Night Lights,” you can start doing so on Friday.
Bravo is going to re-air episodes through March and April on Fridays and Saturdays. The text in the two previous sentences has been changed -- see update below I think “Friday Night Lights” is the best thing to hit network television in years. Don’t miss this chance to check out one of the most compelling, heartfelt, amazingly acted dramas out there.
Here’s the complete schedule breakdown from Bravo’s Thursday press release (please note that all times have been changed to the Central time zone): “See [‘FNL’] for the first time or all over again, beginning with a single episode on Friday, March 16 at 6 p.m., followed by a triple serving beginning Saturday, March 17 at 1 p.
m. “[‘FNL’] on Bravo continues every Friday (one episode at 6 p.m.
) and Saturday (three back-to-back episodes beginning at 1 p.m.), culminating on Friday, April 13 at 6 p.
m.” Bravo is not airing every episode of the series, but all episodes of “Friday Night Lights” are available at NBC.com.
The show, which has been on a break for a couple of weeks, returns to NBC on March 21. Four new episodes will air until the show’s season finale on April 11. By the way, on March 21, I’ll post an in-depth article on the show, plus almost a dozen interviews with “FNL’s” actors and creative team, all done on the show’s Austin, Texas, set.
One final thing: Check out fightforlights.com, an excellent new “save this show” site from James, creator of the great “Office” fan site NorthernAttack.com.
And for creative ideas on how to lobby NBC to save the show, check out FNL-online.com. My post on Thursday was mistaken.
Bravo is not re-airing every episode of “Friday Night Lights” from the start. It is re-airing episodes from the second half of the season. Those episodes are airing in staggered order, which I’ve listed below.
Sorry for the mistake. I still think it’s worth checking the show out on Bravo, even though I wish the network were airing all of the episodes in order. Here is the remainder of the Bravo schedule, from the network’s site: Continue reading "Check out 'Friday Night Lights' on Bravo and see what the fuss is all about" in Friday Night Lights | Permalink | Comments (17) the Feb.
15 episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,” Meredith Grey woke up in the what appeared to be the afterlife. She immediately spotted two of Seattle Grace Hospital’s most famous former patients: Izzie’s dead fiancé Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Dylan (Kyle Chandler), a bomb-squad guy who a year ago exploded into “pink mist. An hour or two before the highly rated Feb.
22 episode of “Grey’s” finished off the surprising Denny-Dylan story line, a helmeted figure roared up to the set of “Friday Night Lights” on a motorcycle. Tucked into the biker’s black leather jacket was an adorable white-and-tan terrier. Even before the motorcycle guy took off his helmet, he had already scored major coolness points.
It was Chandler, arriving for a night shoot outside Austin, Texas, for the NBC show, on which he stars as Coach Eric Taylor. Taylor and “Friday Night Lights” may be the darling of the TV press at the moment -- as I’ve said in this space, “FNL” is my favorite network drama. But Chandler said in an interview the next day that despite his great love for “Friday Night Lights” (“It’s the best experience of my life by far in television,” the actor said), Dylan is still is the character that garners him the most recognition.
“That show’s got so many viewers -- it was interesting, even after the first episode [on Feb. 15], where I just said, `Hey’ at the very end of it, I had more people coming up to me, going `You’re back, you’re back!,’ Chandler said.
Or, according to the actor, they’d just say, as Dylan did, “Hey.” Before that episode aired, news had leaked that Denny would be back on “Grey’s” in some capacity, but Chandler’s appearance on the show took viewers by surprise - you could almost hear a collective gasp when he reappeared on the hit medical drama. As for where those Meredith-Denny-Dylan scenes took place, well, maybe “afterlife” isn’t the right word.
“This … wasn’t a typical Grey’s,” Marti Noxon, who co-wrote the Feb. 22 episode, said on the GreysWriters.com blog.
“Half of it takes place… where? In Meredith’s head? In heaven?
We decided, for obvious reasons, not to get too specific.” In a world of constant online spoilers (which even I can't resist sharing sometimes), it was cool that nobody saw Dylan’s appearance coming. Chandler said at first, even his own “FNL” crew members didn’t believe he’d been on “Grey’s” again.
“A lot of people here are ticked off” that they didn’t know in advance, Chandler said. (Though given the general laid-back nature of the show’s Austin crew, “ticked off” probably meant “gave him some gentle ribbing while eating Skittles.”) One crew member said, “Why didn’t you tell me, I got into an argument” with someone saying Chandler had been on “Grey’s,” Chandler said with a slightly bashful grin.
I guess you don’t talk about stuff like that.” Chandler filmed his scenes for the Feb. 15 and Feb.
22 episodes of the show over a long weekend in Los Angeles, he said. And “Grey’s” creator Shonda Rhimes was grateful he could make it back to the show: “I was glad to see Kyle Chandler, who was gracious enough to fly out here and film on one of his very few days off from the very well-written `Friday Night Lights,’” she wrote on the “Grey’s” writers' blog. It’s partly thanks to “Grey’s,” in a way, that Chandler got his role as Taylor on “Friday Night Lights.
” He was shooting the post-Super Bowl episodes on the same lot where executive producer Peter Berg was casting “FNL,” and he met with Berg around that time. The rest is history. “It surprised me when [Grey’s] said they wanted me back on the show,” Chandler said.
But it was certainly time well spent. Meredith’s conversations with Dylan, Denny and other former Seattle Grace patients made for reasonably compelling drama (though I could do without a Major “Grey’s’ Event until at least May sweeps). Still, truth be told, my favorite scene, aside from the argumentative moments between Denny and Dylan, was the scene in which Dr.
Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) said goodbye to Meredith’s deceased mother. He really knocked that scene out of the park, as Pickens quietly does on a regular basis.
I am not relieved. I’ll have much more from the set of “Friday Night Lights” in upcoming weeks. But for now, back to “Grey’s”: The show airs a repeat on Thursday, but there’s some casting news about upcoming episodes.
Taye Diggs will appear in an upcoming two-hour episode of the show, and Shohreh Aghdashloo (“24,” “House of Sand and Fog”) will guest on the March 15 episode of the show. And Hector Elizondo will appear soon as Dr. One final “Grey’s” note: Fans of “Buffy” will no doubt recognize Noxon’s name from the writing credits of that late, lamented show (which is currently getting an eighth season from creator Joss Whedon - via comic books).
And speaking of “Buffy,” I’ve been digging Kali Rocha, “Buffy’s” Halfrek, as Dr. Heron, a perkily competitive doctor at Seattle Grace. Don’t you sometimes half expect her to summon a Halfrek-style spell and get her way in that manner?
Photos: Kyle Chandler on Friday Night Lights, James Pickens Jr. on Grey's Anatomy. in Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy | Permalink | Comments (27) In the closing minutes of the show, Meredith woke up in what looked like the afterlife.
And if the afterlife includes visits from Denny Duquette (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the rescue worker played last season by Kyle Chandler – both of whom appeared in her “afterlife” scene – then, let’s face it, the next life doesn’t look so bad. We’re getting people pulled in not because the drama is so foreign to them, so that’s exciting and that’s why they watch, but we’re pulling them in because it’s a drama they’ve gone through and they can relate to.
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