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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 ...
The main cast of Burn Notice during seasons 1–3. Left to right: Sharon Gless as Madeline Westen, Bruce Campbell as Sam Axe, Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen and Gabrielle Anwar as Fiona Glenanne. This is a list of fictional characters in the television series Burn Notice. The article deals with the series' main and recurring characters. [1]
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe is a prequel movie focusing on Sam Axe and is set before the events of Burn Notice. It was first broadcast on USA on April 17, 2011. [27] It tells the story of Sam's last days in the Navy SEALs, leading up to his retiring to Miami, and serves as a lead-in to the fifth season of Burn Notice. [28]
Matthew Lauria (born August 15, 1982 [1] [2] [a]) is an American actor and musician.He made his television debut on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock in 2007. He is best known for his roles as Luke Cafferty on the NBC/DirecTV drama Friday Night Lights, Ryan York on the NBC family drama Parenthood, and Ryan Wheeler on the Audience drama Kingdom. [3]
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.
Jeffrey Donovan was cast as burned spy Michael Westen. Gabrielle Anwar was given the role of ex-IRA operative Fiona Glenanne.The character of Sam Axe, an ex-Navy SEAL, was given to long-time action star Bruce Campbell, while Sharon Gless was given the part of Michael's hypochondriac mother, Madeline Westen.
Fan demand for more Friday Night Lights has remained raucous for over a decade. When the show was canceled after season 5, petitions went up to at least give the series the sixth seasons many fans ...
[10] [11] Jeffrey Donovan stated in a pre-season interview that one of the show's long-standing characters will die during this season. [12] Matt Nix wrote the first episode of the season, his twentieth credit for the series. The episode was directed by Stephen Surjik; it was his seventh directing credit for Burn Notice.