I am desperately hoping that NBC has pulled their heads out of their asses because I just read over at my good friend Ausiello's blog that NBC has practically brokered a deal to renew the amazing Friday Night Lights for a third season.
Basically, a rumor popped up on Deadline Hollywood Daily that stated that NBC had made a deal with DirecTV to air first-run episodes of Season Three on one of their gazillion channels and then have the reruns on NBC. Ausiello hasn't been able to confirm at NBC, but it looks like this is what's happening - lots of positive buzz here. Which is absolutely delightful because, let's not lie, Friday Night Lights is a brilliant show.
I realize, ultimately, that Friday Night Lights is a show that belongs squarely in the annals of shows that live on borrowed time despite being one of the most brilliant shows on TV. These shows (among them Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, My So-Called Life, Wonderfalls, etc.) suffer at the hands of incompetent scheduling, bizarre (non)marketing, or the fact that the premise of the show might be considered to be too "niche" for a mainstream audience. Which is tragic, ultimately.
And thinking about this pattern of events, it might be time to realize that this third season might be the final season for Friday Night Lights. The longest that a "bubble show" has lived is three seasons - both Arrested Development and Veronica Mars only survived three seasons, both of which had truncated final seasons. If FNL survives a third season, maybe all is in the clear.
I know I can't celebrate until it's official. But I really want to. And, come on, just look at Lyla Garrity in the picture there. She is downright ecstatic.
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