Friday Night Lights is a TV series that follows a high school football team in Texas. It's based on a 1990 book which also inspired a 2004 film of the same name. The film stared Billy Bob Thornton and the television series stars Kyle Chandler. In March of 2009, NBC announced Friday Night Lights would be renewed for 2 additional seasons, bringing to the total to 5.Reuters: NBC Renews Friday Night Lights (March 30, 2009)

• "Lord, is Friday Night Lights good. In fact, if the season is anything like the pilot, this new drama about high school football could be great - and not just television great, but great in the way of a poem or painting. A fiercely controlled and inventive work of art." —Virginia Heffernan New York TimesNY Times: Losing Isn't an Option (October 3, 2006)

• "[A] rewardingly seasoned new drama series that's practically indistinguishable from the acclaimed feature film, except that it's better." —Diane Werts, NewsdayNewsday: Where High School Football is Life (October 3, 2006)

• Kyle Chandler as Coach Taylor
• Connie Britton as Tami Taylor
• Zach Gilford as Matt Saracen
• Adrianne Palicki as Tyra Collette
• Jesse Plemons as Landry Clarke
• Minka Kelly as Lyla Garrity
• Scott Porter as Jason Street
• Aimee Teegarden as Julie Taylor
• Gaius Charles as "Smash" Williams
• Taylor Kitsch as Tim Riggins