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	Tom Shales - 'Friday Night Lights' Shines in a Vast Wasteland - washingtonpost.com
		Some of us who have discovered "Friday Night Lights," NBC's tense and sensitive drama about football and religion at a Texas high school, are as passionate about the fictitious Dillon Panthers as some people are about the Washington Redskins or the St. Louis Cardinals or any other real sports team, no matter the game.
		A fresh episode is scheduled to air next Monday night at 10, in the time slot normally squandered on that pomposity "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," also known as Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme's revenge on NBC for not renewing "The West Wing" through the year 2525.
		"Friday Night Lights," based on the 2004 film, is the "Platoon" of high school football -- the story of the embattled infantry as well as of the officers in the field, reverberant with metaphorical and microcosmic echoes.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/23/AR2006102301258_pf.html (995 words)

	FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS - A Town, A Team, and A Dream
		One that allows the reader to connect with characters who have experiences similar to their own, but at the same time it allows the reader to gain perspective on those experiences which could not be seen because they were occurring at the same time parallel to their own.
		“Friday Night Lights is an ideal book for many academic courses because Bissinger uses this story of a high school football season as a means to address important social issues -- the role of sports in American society, race relations, sex roles, social class divisions, and the quality of public education.
		Friday Night Lights is one of those rare books that they read from cover to cover because there is so much they can relate to based on their own high school experiences.”
	www.fridaynightlightsbook.com /teachers.html (2060 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - Friday Night Lights (2004)
		The most accomplished element in "Friday Night Lights" is its raw documentary-like feel, the swarming hand-held camerawork and desaturated colors by cinematographer Tobias A. Schliessler (2000's "Bait") giving the pace a "you-are-there" shot of nervy adrenaline.
		"Friday Night Lights" is unsentimental in the best way, garnering an emotional response without reaching for it in obvious ways, and avoiding some of the genre trappings.
		On or off the field, "Friday Night Lights" pulsates with energy and fire, personifying the love many people share for football, as well as the stakes they put into what is, in essence, just a game.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/f/04_fridaynightlights.htm (993 words)

	Friday Night Lights
		When the credits rolled at the end the entire audience erupted in applause; but truth be told, this town hasn't always felt this good about the exposure "Friday Night Lights" has brought to the community.
		Lucas Black ("Sling Blade") plays the brooding Mike Winchell, heavily burdened by the weight of a sick mother and a community that asks the 17 year-old to be their leader on the gridiron every Friday night as the quarterback.
		Friday Night Lights is genuine, gut wrenching, and most of all, heart-felt.
	www.gracecentered.com /friday_night_lights.htm (1699 words)

	'Friday Night Lights' shines, but ratings may dim future - baltimoresun.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The latest attempt, Friday Night Lights, a one-hour drama airing Tuesdays on NBC (locally, channels 11 and 4) is a noble effort that largely does well and should do better, given time.
		The good news is that FNL won its time slot among men 18 to 34, the most difficult demographic to reach, but with that small of an overall viewership, it may not last long enough for anyone else to discover it.
		Even with those flaws, Friday Night Lights, as fiction, is infinitely preferable to the reality trash that is MTV's Two-A-Days: Hoover High, a look behind the scenes of an Alabama team that presents the worst of high school athletics with the soap-opera quality of The O.C. thrown in.
	www.baltimoresun.com /sports/highschool/bal-sp.kent10oct10,0,6508994.column?coll=bal-home-columnists (992 words)

	'Friday Night Lights' has a bright future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The cast of football players in "Lights" mostly look too old to be high schoolers, but that small flaw is not hard to overlook when the characters are etched so memorably right out of the gate.
		There are two problems with the mostly promising "Friday Night Lights": The first has to do with the by-now overused conceit of the jiggly camera.
		The other rests in "Lights' " depiction of life in Dillon: It may be too accurate to be enjoyable in the long run.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/tv/articles/1003fnl.html (769 words)

	DVD Times - Friday Night Lights
		Given that American football is at the centre of Friday Night Lights it is therefore also true that the sport is treated with utmost seriousness.
		Certainly, it may be admirable that Friday Night Lights’s setting has been used as a means of laughing at a bunch of eighties rednecks, but a touch of brevity would have been much appreciated.
		Friday Night Lights comes to Region 2 DVD in superb condition and bolstered by a host of extras.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=58337 (1114 words)

	Friday Night Lights (2004)
		Lights starts with the beginning of training camp in early August.
		Friday Night Lights appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		For the most part, the Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack of Friday Night Lights was satisfactory, but it never became anything special.
	www.dvdmg.com /fridaynightlights.shtml (1896 words)

	Sleepless in Midland: "Friday Night Lights" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Timing was on the side of Friday Night Lights, the high school football film that was the surprise of the weekend.
		And, on Thursday and Friday nights they will be shooting a new scene called "Burger Joint." They are seeking three long haired white guys who look like teenage heavy metal rockers one of whom should be able to emulate Jon Bon Jovi from the 80s.
		And, the group is working toward a goal of having the "Friday Night Lights" movie premiere in Odessa, according to an article by Ginger Pope in the Odessa American.
	sleepless.blogs.com /george/friday_night_lights (13577 words)

	HD DVD Review: Friday Night Lights \| High-Def Digest
		Instead, 'Friday Night Lights' depicts a world where there is no fl and white, only shades of gray.
		'Friday Night Lights' may not reinvent the sports movie, but it is an above-average example of a genre that has long been far too formulaic.
		No genuine HD goodies on this one, which is a bit of a shame, because there seems to have been enough making-of material shot on 'Friday Night Lights' to justify a "Total Movie Experience" interactive feature.
	hddvd.highdefdigest.com /fridaynightlights.html (1708 words)

	Friday Night Lights (2004)
		This is not some formulaic, cliché-ridden sports movie where an underdog team overcomes the odds, thanks to a platitude-spouting coach, but a penetrating and engrossing portrait of football's sociological and emotional impact on a small town.
		Free of the gloss and schmaltz that marred Remember the Titans, Friday Night Lights certainly has its share of "inspirational" moments, but Berg doesn't linger over them or milk them for easy tears.
		Overall, however, Friday Night Lights is a compelling and stirring film, sharply observed and thrilling to watch.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=139375&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (712 words)

	FANBOY PLANET.com .: mc-fridaynightlights :.
		Out of the darkness he commanded, "let there be stadium lights!" And it was good.
		Friday Night Lights offers a case in point: the small town of Odessa, Texas, where football has a religious feel.
		Based on a true story and partially shot as if it were a documentary, Friday Night Lights quickly draws you into the monomaniacal world of this economically depressed town, and more impressively, makes you understand it.
	www.fanboyplanet.com /movies/mc-fridaynightlights.php (843 words)

	MOJO ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yet one hope sustains the community where, once a week during the fall, the town and its dreams come alive beneath the dazzling and disorienting Friday night lights...when the Permian High Panthers take to the field.
		In a city where economic uncertainty has eroded the spirit of its inhabitants, nearly everyone seeks comfort in the religion of the Friday night ritual, where the unfulfilled dreams of an entire community are shifted onto the shoulder pads of a team of high-school athletes.
		Friday Night Lights captures the frenzy of a small town that reveres its school team and their weekly games.
	midnight-sky.net /fnl (216 words)

	Friday Night Lights Online
		Friday Night Lights episode 13, "Little Girl I wanna to Marry You", screen caps should be up shortly.
		Friday Night Lights will take the spot of a repeated episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which like FNL has fallen short of expected ratings.
		The concept for Friday Night Lights came from the same titled book by H G Bissinger who just happens to be Peter Bergs cousin.
	www.fridaynightlightsonline.com (2588 words)

	'Friday Night Lights' Gets Monday Tryout - Drama will replace 'Studio 60' for one week - Zap2it
		NBC will try to give its struggling drama "Friday Night Lights" an extra boost later this month by airing after the network's most successful new show.
		The network has also ordered several more scripts for "Friday Night Lights," which doesn't necessarily mean a life for the show beyond its original 13-episode order but certainly isn't a bad thing.
		NBC is undoubtedly hoping some of that will rub off on "Friday Night Lights" two Mondays from now.
	www.zap2it.com /tv/news/zap-fridaynightlightsonmonday,0,4469638.story?coll=zap-tv-headlines (381 words)

	Friday Night Lights (2004): Reviews
		For all its energy, fine performances and dramatic confrontations, Friday Night Lights substitutes intensity for insight, dodging the book's harsher findings like a dazzling broken-field runner.
		When Friday Night Lights gets to the big games, the time it's spent creates an atmosphere thick with tension, one akin to the real-world experience of watching a favorite team play for its life.
		Friday Night Lights is the "Black Hawk Down" of high school football movies.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/fridaynightlights (1056 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - DVD, Movie, Video: Friday Night Lights, Billy Bob Thornton, DVD, Wide Screen / ...
		But football is the one thing that brings all the people of Odessa together, and on Friday nights every fall, as many as 20,000 people fill Permian's football stadium to watch Coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) and his boys try to lead the team to victory.
		I have seen fridaynight lights and it was good.The movie is about a small town in texas and how thyat the football games on friday where relly big every one went to the football games on fridaynight's.
		Friday Night Lights is easily in the class of such movies like Field of Dreams, Remember the Titans, Hoosiers, and Miracle.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=25192547621 (1034 words)

	Metromix: Friday Night Lights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Based on the 2004 movie, which was based on Buzz Bissinger's classic bestselling book, Friday Night Lights is the story of the high school football team in small-town Dillon, Texas, a sleepy little suburb that's completely obsessed with its Panthers and their chances at winning the state championship.
		The series is also very well cast, from Chandler, who finally seems to have found the perfect role for his everyguy charm and likeability, to the line-up of new faces who make up the Panthers squad.
		Friday Night Lights premieres Tuesday, October 3 at 8 p.m.
	baltimore.metromix.com /tv/natent-tv-fridaynightlightsrev-s,0,5755021.story?coll=balnatent-leadpromo-tv (326 words)

	City of Austin - NBC Universal Television Studio selects Austin as home of new television series 'Friday Night Lights'
		McCracken and Watson worked with Austin Mayor Will Wynn to help convince NBC Universal that Austin is the best place for the series, which will focus on the proud Texas tradition of high school football.
		The town’s promising high school team, its star quarterback and newly appointed head coach, Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), feel the mounting pressure of the town’s pride and honor riding on their shoulders as a new season kicks off.
		“Having Friday Nights Lights produced in Austin creates an incredible opportunity for our local film sector, and it strengthens Austin’s position as one of the nation’s top three film and digital media communities,” said McCracken, who chairs the City Council’s Emerging Technologies Committee.
	www.ci.austin.tx.us /news/2006/friday_night_lights.htm (727 words)

	Friday Night Lights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Friday Night Lights is a 1990 book and 2004 movie that documents the coach and players of a high school football team and the small, economically-depressed Texas town of Odessa that supports and is obsessed with them.
		The negative reaction to the playoff situation was exacerbated by the book, and many residents of Odessa received the book with responses ranging from mild indignation to threats of physical violence aimed at the book's author.
		The movie version of Friday Night Lights was released in the United States on October 6, 2004, and starred Billy Bob Thornton as Permian Coach Gary Gaines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Friday_Night_Lights (3278 words)

	Houston - Archive Search - Page: 2 \| Keywords: Friday Night Lights - houstonpress.com
		At first she blamed it on academic exhaustion, but another night she nodded off in the middle of pouring a drink.
		Friday, March 16 Toyota Center 1510 Polk Street, 713-758-7200...17, brings the annual St. Patrick's Day parade with music, beer and friends.
		Our other entrée that night, pork prik khing, was much more to my tablemate's liking.
	www.houstonpress.com /search/results.php?page=2§ion_base%5B%5D=news&keywords=Friday%20Night%20Lights& (708 words)

	FridayNightLights.tv- The first fan site for the NBC series Friday Night Lights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The HBO show and “FNL” are doing quite different things — through the use of memorable characters and complicated plots, “The Wire” masterfully depicts how a society rots from within, from the highest precincts of power to the lowest drug slinger on the streets.
		A meeting between the producers of "Friday Night Lights" and Austin City Manager Toby Futrell is scheduled for Feb. 26.
		Like no other show at the moment, Lights concerns itself with the real challenges facing families in small towns, from the basic struggle to make a living amid dying economies to the age-old clash between the desire to fit in and the need to escape.
	www.fridaynightlights.tv (984 words)

	JS Online:
		"Friday Night Lights," with Derek Luke (from left), Billy Bob Thornton, Lee Thompson Young and Lucas Black, barely goes beyond the gridiron.
		Although "Friday Night Lights" offers momentary glimpses into the mind-set of people in Odessa and how serious they are about football, the most interesting aspects in the movie are skimmed over and treated perfunctorily - all so we can get to the next big game.
		The more "Friday Night Lights" moves downfield toward the inevitable championship game, the less engaging it is. By abandoning all attempts to explore the town's obsession with the game, opting instead for sports-movie cliches and more slow-motion tackling, the filmmakers fall short of the goal line.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/movies/oct04/264778.asp (501 words)

	Friday Night Lights - The Filthy Critic
		Watching Friday Night Lights brought back a lot of horrible memories for me. It's the story of the ultra-competitive world of Texas high school football and the importance put on winning, at the cost of dignity, respect and education.
		Seeing the word "igneous" spur a riot that leaves three potential valedictorians in the hospital with severe slap bruises and chunks of scalp ripped off their skulls is enough to make a kid wish he weren't such a disappointment to everyone.
		So, I identify with the kids of Friday Night Lights who live in a small, dirty Texas town where the expectation is to win the state football championship, and anything less is unacceptable.
	www.bigempire.com /filthy/fridaynightlights.html (1317 words)

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