Friday Night Lights fans can breathe a sigh of relief. Guess all those
miniature footballs and petitions sent to NBC execs worked. It's back
for another season this fall. It'll work a little differently this
time though. FNL will air 13 episodes on DirecTV starting on October
1st. Then, in early 2009, the show will come back to NBC. This was
the only way the show could be rekindled by having the network,
studio, producers, and satellite provider on board to split up costs.
NBC entertainment chief Ben Silverman says ''There is such a passion
for this show among its viewers, and although you would hope that
passion would have manifested itself in higher ratings, the new
arrangement allows NBC 'to have this jewel of a show and not even need
to expand its audience to succeed on a financial basis.''
