EXCLUSIVE: NBC Picking Up 'Friday Night Lights' After Partnering On It With DirecTV
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BREAKING NEWS: NBC to Renew FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS!!!
Published 3/6/2008 by Give Me My Remote at Give Me My Remote
This just in exclusively from Nikki Finke at DeadlineHollywoodDaily . EXCLUSIVE: NBC Picking Up ‘Friday Night Lights’ After Partnering On It With DirecTV This is great news to that small but passionate audience for the best TV series you’re not watching. I’m told that Jeff Zucker, Marc Graboff and Ben Silverman had been searching for a way to pick up the critically acclaimed but low-rated Friday Night Lights that would still make financial sense. The answer came in a deal with DirecTV, now owned by John Malone’s Liberty Media. Clearly Malone is looking to offer exclusive ...
Friday Night Lights lives?
Published 3/6/2008 by Alan Sepinwall at What's Alan Watching?
According to Nikki Finke , NBC is going to pick up "Friday Night Lights" for a third season: I'm told that Jeff Zucker, Marc Graboff and Ben Silverman had been searching for a way to renew the critically acclaimed but low-rated Friday Night Lights for a 3rd season in a way that would still make financial sense. The answer came in a deal with DirecTV, now owned by John Malone's Liberty Media. Clearly Malone is looking to offer exclusive content to his satellite subscribers to distinguish DirecTV from its rivals on a content as well as price basis. "It's an innovative deal where ...
NBC Set to Renew FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
Published 3/6/2008 by theTVaddict at the TV addict
... Deadline Hollywood Daily is reporting that NBC has teamed up with satellite provider DirecTV to bring fans a third season of the critically acclaimed yet ratings anemic FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. ...
Now ya'll have to watch it.
Published 3/6/2008 at OH NO!!
... the show does OK in the 18-to-49 demos and often wins the 18-to-34 demos. But FNL's Season One only averaged 6.1 million viewers a week, making it something like the 95th-highest rated show on network primetime TV, fnl-3.jpgand Season Two averaged 6.2 million viewers a week but still came in at 101th. I can't say whether the fans' campaign to save the show by sending all those mini- footballs to NBC bigwigs worked the magic. But I do know the execs got them. Source: Deadline Hollywood. Best news ever. I need my weekly dose of Coach.
My Birthday Gift - A Friday Night Lights Renewal?
Published 3/6/2008 by Vance at Tapeworthy
According to Nikki Finke from Deadline Hollywood, Friday Night Lights may actually get renewed by NBC for a third season in some deal with DirectTV to start partnering on the show. ...
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Getting Third Season On DirecTV?? (Then NBC??)
Published 3/6/2008 by Hercules at Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
... It looks like a third season of “Friday Night Lights” will air first on DirecTV (Channel 101 I guess?) then on NBC, at least if the rumors are true. Deadline Hollywood claims it has a source, but Deadline Hollywood’s sources are wrong sometimes. Mike Ausiello at TV Guide hasn’t been able to confirm anything at NBC. Find the Deadline Hollywood story here . (Thanks to BourneAgain for the heads up.) ...
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Renewed for Season 3!!!
Published 3/6/2008 by Daemon's TV at Daemon's TV
... No, this is not a dream, according to Deadline Hollywood, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS has been renewed.
Even though Friday Night Lights has not been performing well rating-wise, NBC was able to find a way to renew the show by making a deal with DirecTV which will allow them to share costs. What does the deal mean? Mostly that both NBC and DirecTV “will be airing Friday Night Lights across multipurpose platforms.”
This is a great news! I really thought Friday Night Lights was done, but ...
Idle Chatter: John McCain is Not a Cannibal, OK?
Published 3/6/2008 by jbercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... Show who has made lots of enemies among her staff, has been out of the office all week and isn't expected back. [P6]
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-More NBC: The network is renewing Friday Night Lights thanks to a deal with DirecTV. [DHD]Related Links ReplayTV News-division Layoffs at NBC, CBS ...
"Friday Night Lights" To Return, Platform Neutral
Published 3/6/2008 by Joel Brown at TV with MeeVee
... " fan is whooping it up this morning, drinking keg beer and impregnating cheerleaders, as NBC has renewed the show for a third season. But Deadline Hollywood Daily reports the savior of the show is really satellite's DirecTV, which stepped in as co-producer - Hollywoodese for "paid some of the bills" - in return for a satellite broadcast window that will come around the same time as NBC's airings. ...
While You Were Wondering If Anyone On This Year’s Idol Cast Has Ever Killed A Person
Published 3/6/2008 by Alex Blagg at Best Week Ever
... And finally, NBC has announced that it is picking Friday Night Lights up for a 3rd season. Not that BWE.tv or any other Viacom-owned properties would be interested in that. ...
Good Save [Things We Actually Like]
Published 3/6/2008 by Nick Denton at Gawker
... , has been saved. Usually well-informed blogger, Nikki Finke, says the NBC series will be distributed on Direct TV; that's enough to offset lackluster ratings and bring the critically-acclaimed show back for a third season. Watch this time! The characters, particularly the football coach and his harried wife, have a quality rare on TV, credibility. And even foreign snobs, ...
NBC renews Friday Night Lights with the help of DirecTV
Published 3/6/2008 by Joel Keller at TV Squad
Filed under: Cable/Satellite, Pickups and Renewals, Friday Night LightsFans of the perpetually unwatched but much-loved NBC show Friday Night Lights have a reason to rejoice this morning: the show has been renewed for a third season, according to Nikki Finke. NBC executives had been looking for a way to renew their low-rated show, mostly through cost-sharing deals with other networks. They finally found a partner: DirecTV. No details of the deal were given; all we know right now is that the satellite company and the ...
Good "Friday Night Lights" News?
Published 3/6/2008 by rheldenfels at The HeldenFiles Online
Nikki Finke says the show is saved through a partnership with DirecTV that would put telecasts on both DirecTV and some part of the NBC universe. We're seeing more of this cross-platform deals, like DirecTV's carrying the former NBC soap "Passions," or "Criminal Intent" airing on cable before going to broadcast. And, as long as I get to see shows I love, I'll take a deal. This entry was posted on Thursday, March 6th, 2008 at 12:30 pm and is filed under ...
The Idiot Box
- Friday Night Lights Converts on 4th and Goal
Published 3/6/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
Allow us a moment to rejoice: Friday Night Lights has officially been saved. Over at Deadline Hollywood, blogger Nikki Finke is reporting that NBC and Direct TV will share the financial cost of ensuring that a third season of the critically acclaimed, under-watched drama about high-school football in small town America will see the light of day. (The last episode of season two aired on February 8.) Please watch this time so we don't have to go through this again! Efforts to pester NBC execs into salvaging the show have been exhaustive and varied, ranging from ...
Finally, good TV news...
Published 3/6/2008 by Simon Crowe at Mostly Movies
NBC partners with DirectTV, brings back Friday Night Lights for Season 3. (Deadline Hollywood)
Coach Taylor Will Have Another Shot at State
Published 3/6/2008 by david at Jossip
... stay. At least for another season. Critics charity case Friday Night Lights, which isn’t exactly about football (but what a nice plot device that involves locker room scenes), will return thanks to a deal struck between Jeff Zucker, Marc Graboff and Ben Silverman at NBC and DirecTV, owned by Barry Diller foe and Liberty Media head John Malone. The arrangement is “an innovative deal where NBC found a partner who will share costs and exhibition windows” says one source who didn’t exactly explain how this is going to work. Whatever. You’ll be ...
Despite The Best Efforts Of Viacom, 'Friday Night Lights' Gets Picked Up For Another Season [Renewals]
Published 3/6/2008 by Mark Graham at Defamer
... from the show's loyal audience, there isn't any indication at press time that shattered lightbulbs made it any further than the mailroom. Either way, congratulations are due to all who fought for the show to survive. Don't get too excited, though, for all this news really means is that you've just bought yourselves another 365 days in which to start planning NEXT year's "Save Friday Night Lights" campaign. We'll see you then ... same bat time, same bat channel.
EXCLUSIVE: NBC Picking Up 'Friday Night Lights' After Partnering With DirecTV [DHD] ...
Has 'Friday Night Lights' been saved?
Published 3/6/2008 by Whitney Matheson at USATODAY.com - Pop Candy
Tim Riggins lives. Friday Night Lights fans are rejoicing over a report posted by Nikki Finke saying the critically acclaimed series has been rescued. She says NBC has made a deal with DirecTV, which will share some of the costs and also air the show. Fans have been working hard to bring back the series, organizing ...
'Friday Night Lights' Close to Renewal
Published 3/6/2008 at BuddyTV
... average of six million viewers, it could still be a big boon for the company if a chunk of those people switch to DirecTV. It'll also make the company look like big time heroes, at least in my eyes. Though this deal isn't 100 percent confirmed, it's basically just awaiting a few signatures. In the next day or two we should officially be able to break out the pom-poms and do three cheers for the Dillon Panthers. - Don Williams, BuddyTV Staff Columnist Source: TVGuide.com , Deadline Hollywood Daily (Image courtesy of NBC)
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS LIVES!!! (or least, it appears that way…)
Published 3/6/2008 by Jerkwheat at DeadOn...
... Fantastic news coming out today!!!
It appears that our beloved FNL has, in fact, been saved thanks to the efforts of its devoted fans and a little financial intervention from DirecTV - I’ve never been happier to be a DirecTV subscriber!
Go read the article above and rejoice in knowing that the Dillon Panthers will live to play another game.
Also, Season Two dvds come out April 22nd - CONSUME!
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Touchdown? Friday Night Lights Might Get a Third Season!
Published 3/6/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
... will be renewed for a third season, thanks to a partnership with DirecTV. No deal has been officially announced, but another report says ...
‘Friday Night Lights’ Gets Saved!
Published 3/6/2008 at Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
... Friday Night Lights Saved! Thanks to a cost-sharing partnership with DirectTV, NBC will bring back the low-rated but awesome Friday Night Lights for a third season. Now the question is, which network will be brave enough to share the cost of Cavemen with ABC? TNT? Telemundo? Anyone? [Deadline Hollywood Daily] ...
The More You Know: Sara’s right edition
Published 3/7/2008 by John at TiFaux
Friday Night Lights is almost SAVED
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NBC Still Looking For An Open Receiver For ‘Friday Night Lights’
Published 3/7/2008 by Brian Stelter at TV Decoder
NBC says a deal has not been reached yet. And DirecTV has no comment. But fans of “Friday Night Lights” are hopeful that the rumors of a third season deal for the football drama are true. Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily reported on Wednesday that NBC would partner with the satellite operator DirecTV to “share costs and exhibition windows,” potentially giving DirecTV customers an advance look at new episodes. “Clearly [John] Malone is looking to distinguish DirecTV from its rivals on a content as well as price basis,” Ms. Finke wrote. Fans launched a campaign to “save ...
Friday Night Lights to return!
Published 3/7/2008 at TV Goddess
Did you hear Friday Night Lights is reportedly returning in an exclusive partnership between NBC and DirecTV. Who would have thought? Sort of makes me proud that I'm a DirecTV subscriber, that they'd get behind something like this.
(Thanks to Kim for brining this to my attention -- decades later than everyone else, I realize. Don't ask me where I've been while this happened, because I have no idea how I missed this for more than two days.) ...
EXCLUSIVE: NBC Picking Up 'Friday Night Lights' After Partnering With DirecTV
Published 3/13/2008 at OH NO!!
... http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/nbc-picking-up-friday-night-lights-after-partnering-on-it-with-directv/ All I can say is... MORE RIGGINS!
Will The Crystal Ball Clear Up Six Weeks Early?
Published 3/27/2008 by Michael O'Connell at Mikey Likes TV
... So if FNL does return, it’s going to be a part of some crazy cost-sharing deal between NBC and DirectTV. This will be another one of the many “landmark” moves you hear so much about these days because TV has gone crazy. Not that I’m complaining. I don’t care who’s paying for or it or what channel it’s on, as long as it’s actually on. And it’s looking like it will be. Everyone has been saying it, ...