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Friday Night Lights

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Scott Lofskin

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By Frazier Moore
The Associated Press
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NEW YORK (AP) -- " 'Friday Night Lights' Doused By NBC." Is that what you want to be reading sometime soon?

Of course not. It's a trite play on words.

Furthermore, who would want to face the sad news -- with or without a pun -- that the fall's best new series has been overlooked into oblivion by viewers?

Or is it too soon to panic about the lackluster ratings? "Friday Night Lights" (airing Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT) has been on just twice. "We had modest expectations in that time period," says NBC boss Kevin Reilly, anticipating growth once its tough ABC time-slot rival "Dancing with the Stars" wraps in mid-November.

"We plan to stick with 'Friday Night Lights,' " Reilly says. "I know we're hitting a nerve with the viewers who have found it. I just hope they start telling their friends."

The rest of the article can be read here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/16/apontv.fridaynightlights.ap/index.html

I've never watched the show, but are there any people here who watch it? How is?
 
I found myself flipping back and forth between FNL and a congressional debate. My goal was to watch the debate, though, so FNL was good enough for me to flip back and forth for.
 
It most likely will register well with viewers in Texas, where high school football is more of a religion than a sport, and a few other states, although quite obviously it'll need to pull a vast audience from all over to survive.

Presents a rough parallel to another Texas-based show, Walker Texas Ranger, which enjoyed only mediocre acceptance until viewers hooked into the well choreographed fight scenes and other production values as the show stayed in the lineup for more than a few seasons. FNL replaces martial arts with head-to-head conflict where the equivalents of Walker wear helmets and pads rather than a star and a gun.

FNL is interestingly filmed and the story lines, as with WTR, will be pretty much run of the mill. So the show may be an edge teeterer depending on how strongly people line up with the on-field conflicts rather than with what occurs off the field.

My reaction only as a yet-to-be-convinced viewer.. The critics and others in the audience pool may agree or disagee.
 
I've read quite a few reviews - mostly by female reviewers - who say they can't get past the football. I think this also hurt "Sports Night" which got great reviews, but a lot of people couldn't get past the word "Sports." And does anybody remember Steven Bochco's "Bay City Blues" about a minor league baseball team?
 
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