Friday Night Lights TV Show

First Aired: October 3, 2006 on NBC

Starring: Kyle Chandler as Eric Taylor, Minka Kelly as Lyla Garrity, Scott Porter as Jason Street, Taylor Kitsch as Tim Riggins, Zach Gilford as Matt Saracen, Jesse Plemons as Landry Clarke, Adrianne Palicki as Tyra Collette, Connie Britton as Tami Taylor, and Aimee Teegarden as Julie Taylor.

Friday Night Lights TV Show is a TV show adapted from the movie. Both are based on the best-selling book by H. G. Bissinger. It takes place in 1988. The TV show, however, takes place in the present - and the town is no longer Odessa, but the fictional town of Dillon, Texas. With its perfectly set TV cast, it looks shiny and new. It's a little less easy in the TV version to imagine why football would be the only entertainment in, or ticket out of, town.

The Washington Post Extraordinary in just about every conceivable way -- but especially in the quality of its cast -- NBC's "Friday Night Lights" expands upon and extends the 2004 movie of the same name about high school football in a Texas town where the game is only nominally a game. It's also a community obsession... Tom Shales

USA Today Like the book and movie on which it's based, the heartfelt and sometimes heart-piercing Lights engulfs us in the joys and travails of a small-town Texas football team and its fans. But while the show is all the better for its specificity, it isn't limited by it. Robert Bianco

The Boston Globe One way to praise NBC's ``Friday Night Lights" would be to say, ``It's a stand-up-and-cheer drama about football!" And then to use football metaphors such as ``Catch this TV forward pass." Because, as the show's Dillon High Panthers wrestle for a Texas state championship on the field, you'll want to stand up, cheer, and program the series onto your DVR. Matthew Gilbert

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