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Friday Night Lights was inspired by H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger's non-fiction book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream (1990) and the 2004 film based on it. The book, which explores the 1988 season of the Permian Panthers, a high school football team in Odessa, Texas, was a factual work of documentary journalism.
In real life, the third-ranked Marshall Mavericks (whose colors are red and white, not purple and gold) defeated fourth-ranked Permian 13–12. In the film, the game was the season opener and played on a Friday night in Odessa. In real life, it was Permian's second game of the season and played at Maverick Stadium in Marshall on a Saturday ...
Minka Kelly (born June 24, 1980) [1] is an American actress and philanthropist. [2] She rose to fame for her role as Lyla Garrity on the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights (2006–2009).
Jason Katims accepts the Emmy for writing for a drama series for "Friday Night Lights" in 2011. (Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press)
The H. G. Bissinger novel Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream has been adapted several times since it was originally published in 1990. It first served as the basis for NBC’s short ...
Friday Night Lights is an American television drama series that aired on NBC and DirecTV's The 101 Network from 2006 to 2011. The series is based on the non-fiction book of the same name. Set in the fictional town of Dillon, Texas, the show focuses on a high school varsity football team. Several characters in the series are adapted from ...
Friday Night Lights is getting a reboot!. It's the latest in a series of early aughts TV to be given new life, according to TV Line. The new iteration of the high school football drama will ...
The website's critical consensus reads, "Innovative for its time, Friday Night Lights offers a realistic glimpse into small-town life and the social issues that accompany it." [25] On the review aggregator website Metacritic, the first season scored 78 out of 100, based on 32 reviews, indicating "Generally favorable reviews".