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Season 2 Needs Saving!

2 Oct, 2007  friday night lights, season 2

So…it was a great offseason.

Friday Night Lights got renewed for a second season.

And it’s set to start this Friday…

Friday? What are you doing NBC? Are you trying to kill the show?

Rumors are flying that once again Friday Night Lights may get the ax early this year. NBC went out on a limb to give the show a second season, but just like Rex Grossman, if it doesn’t put up the numbers…it’s gonna get canned.

My favorite columnist (and blazers fan!) over at ESPN wrote a passionate plea to his readers to watch FNL this season. You can find the wonderful article here.

Does anyone have any ideas on how we could make sure that FNL stays on this season? 

67 Comments so far »

  1. Marcus Anderson said,

    Wrote on October 19, 2007 @ 8:16 pm

    This show is inspirational on so many levels. It has to stay. The best I have seen. Great acting, great directors, just inspirational.

  2. Missy said,

    Wrote on November 23, 2007 @ 10:52 pm

    I just got into this show and watched all of the episodes over a week period. If this show leaves television, I will have no faith in hollywood at all. How can we get the ratings up on this show? I have been telling everyone far and wide to watch the show. I even talked about the show like I was on it at Thanksgiving and I am 27 years old!

  3. Mark said,

    Wrote on January 10, 2008 @ 4:24 pm

    Don’t cancel it! Great show

  4. Delroy Coke Jr. said,

    Wrote on January 17, 2008 @ 4:47 am

    I love friday night lights
    The book is great (just read the beginning)
    The online epsiodes are great
    The cast and production team are amazing
    I THINK THIS NETWORK NEEDS TO KNOW THAT AFTER THIS GASHTLY WRITERS STRIKE IS OVER.
    PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE SAVE THIS SHOW SO IT CAN BE ON THE FOR MORE SEASONS
    ITS WILDLY POPULAR AND IS A PART OF AMERICANA

  5. Delroy Coke Jr. said,

    Wrote on January 17, 2008 @ 4:49 am

    *SO THE FNL CAN BE FOR MORE,MORE, AND MORE SEASONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE*

  6. Maryellen O'Leary said,

    Wrote on February 11, 2008 @ 8:15 pm

    PLEASE SAVE FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS! I LOVE this show. It is so real. The writing and acting are wonderful. I love all the different story lines. It is an example of American life. Please, NBC, don’t cancel this show. It’s so good. I feel like I’m living in Texas with them when I watch. NBC, you have cancelled 2 of my favorite shows already……American Dreams and Third Watch. I vowed not to get hooked on this one because I didn’t want you to cancel it once I feel in love with it. I couldn’t resist. Please, prove me wrong. Why do you cancel everything? 6 million viewers is a lot. Every other show is about murder and dead bodies. Can’t we have something wholesome for once? We need a wholesome show. Please, I beg you!!!!

  7. Werbeck Family said,

    Wrote on February 12, 2008 @ 8:23 am

    Please do not take off Friday Night Lights! It is a great show, we watch every Friday and love it!!

  8. jeannine muehr said,

    Wrote on February 12, 2008 @ 5:20 pm

    My world revolves around FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS! Just ask my family (I have gotten them hooked too). This is a great show to watch with you teen age children (I have a 17 year old) and we talk about everything on the show because these things happen in high school and in life Its a great way to talk about things that happen on the show and relate it to real life lessons, with your children. Jason’s injury, sex, drugs, religion, murder, rape, jealously, love, hate, and those Friday Night Lights!!

  9. Diana Fucci said,

    Wrote on February 13, 2008 @ 12:50 pm

    What are they going to do now that FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS has used up their second season episodes? (Unfortunately, we have the writers’ strike to thank for these episodes or I have a feeling,the network would have pulled FRIDAY mid season!) Are they going to leave us hanging regarding the fates of the people we have known and loved? Our entire family watches this show and we all think that FRIDAY got a bum rap by the station from the start. Whatever happened to the promotionals they promised to juice up FRIDAY’s ratings? Whenever I praise the merits of the show, people answer, “Oh, that football show?” I have to explain that the show is primarily a show for PEOPLE about PEOPLE- not just for football fans!(more evidence of poor marketing!) I must admit that I, too, was almost turned off by the very first episode of FRIDAY because of it’s poor camera techniques (I nearly got seasick with all the moving and hand held camera choppiness.) But on a second try, I fell in love with the characters and have never looked back. (P.S. The camera work during the duration has smoothed out considerably.) What is not to like here? The most beautiful women on t.v., great character actors, wonderful story lines and substance! C’mon, guys! If you can’t give us another season, at least finish what you started in Season 2. Don’t disappoint us!

  10. Sourapas Family said,

    Wrote on February 16, 2008 @ 7:57 pm

    please don’t cancel this show. loved the movie; love the show.

  11. mj gardiner said,

    Wrote on February 18, 2008 @ 12:33 pm

    SAVE Friday Night Lights!! We NEED programs the whole family can watch and enjoy. We NEED real characters with real flaws and real virtues. We do NOT need more “reality-based” TV. (Whose reality is that anyway??)

  12. Summer Talley said,

    Wrote on February 21, 2008 @ 8:49 am

    My husband and I are loyal fans. We watch or record Friday Night Lights every week. It would be such a bummer to see such a fun and youthful show go. For some of us who have already lived those highschool years and are now raising children of our own it is like reliving our youth through the show. Please don’t cancel it, my Friday Nights would be very dim without it.

    Summer Talley

  13. Ashleigh Pruell said,

    Wrote on February 21, 2008 @ 9:07 am

    Please dont cancel this show. It is my highlight to every week. I love it so much!

  14. A. Crawford said,

    Wrote on February 21, 2008 @ 10:40 am

    This show needs saving. This is what a reality show is all about. The Texas football is a plus, especially for those of us who live in Texas and truely understand what “Friday Night Lights” is all about, but there is also life going on in this show. This show needs to be saved!

  15. mamma b said,

    Wrote on February 21, 2008 @ 10:58 am

    Best show on tv. Please save

  16. Rah said,

    Wrote on February 21, 2008 @ 11:24 am

    Getting rid of this show is crazy this show is good and it needs to stay on the air.

  17. Elizabeth Gaebler said,

    Wrote on February 21, 2008 @ 11:30 am

    The show Friday Night Lights is one in a million. It is pure, compeling, real, extraordinary and strong. It should stay on the air for years to come. Everything about it is perfection. If a show like Friday Night Lights goes off ther air I think I will tune off NBC forever.

  18. Lillian Sneddon said,

    Wrote on February 22, 2008 @ 9:55 am

    My Husband & I totally enjoy Friday Night Lights, he is a football fan, I am not. But don’t keep taking off good shows, and replacing them with games or reality show. We live reality everyday. The game show are all the same.

  19. Tim Larkins said,

    Wrote on February 22, 2008 @ 10:05 am

    SAVE THIS SHOW!!! It’s the best show on TV. My wife and I were so upset when we heard it may not be renewed. Getting rid of Studio 60 and trying to replace it with the Black Donnelly’s was not a good move by NBC. Cancelling Friday Night Lights would be a terrible move by the network. PLEASE KEEP NEW EPISODES COMING!!!

  20. Caitlin said,

    Wrote on February 22, 2008 @ 10:54 am

    This show is so amazing, i love it so much. PLEASE SAVE IT. It is about much more than football, it is about the trials of every day life but we get to see it in a compelling way and in new light. My entire family watches the show and we absolutly love it. True, friday is not the best night to have the show on, but we can work through that. Takeing the show off the air would be a HUGE mistake by the network. PLEASE, continue the show, it is wonderful and I would be OUTRAGED if the show were to be taken off the air, and I’m sure many people share my feelings.

  21. Casey said,

    Wrote on February 22, 2008 @ 10:59 am

    This show rocks, and takeing it off the air would be STUPID. It amazes me that the network would want to do somthing like this. Move the show to Tuesday night, when nothing else is showing so the show won’t have to compete for rateings and the rateings WILL go up. This show is wonderfull and about so much more than football, although the football is a nice perk. SAVE FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS!!!!!

  22. Meghan said,

    Wrote on February 22, 2008 @ 11:02 am

    this show is viewed by my whole family and it is so wonderful, it is great to watch and takeing it off the air would be the STUPIDIST thing the network could do. A great show like this can be good for teens because it can teach them important life lessons. It is a remarkable show and I would be hartbroken if is stopped.

  23. Ben said,

    Wrote on February 22, 2008 @ 11:04 am

    This show is great, and about much more than football, I was shoked when I heared that it was going to be taken off the air. It is the best show to come around in a long time, and the entire family can wach it. PLEAsE keep the season going. The show should be around for years to come.

  24. Joe P said,

    Wrote on February 22, 2008 @ 11:48 am

    The best show on TV. There is not alot to choose from these days. I have worn out my remote to find anything worth watching. For this show I will block out time just to watch. KEEP IT GOING!!!!

  25. Will said,

    Wrote on February 22, 2008 @ 7:02 pm

    It is the best show ever why take it off the air

  26. Lisa Hilt said,

    Wrote on February 22, 2008 @ 8:03 pm

    We love FHL !! Please save the show !! Bad night to be on, we live in small town, support High school sports, DVR every episode, watch asap. I love the cast. Great story line. Please save!!

  27. FNLfan said,

    Wrote on February 22, 2008 @ 11:28 pm

    If Friday Night Lights got cancelled, having a television in my house would be pointless. It is literally the only good show on television. Everything about the show is absolutely brilliant. The characters and the dialogue are so real and I feel like for the first time in years, there is a show on tv that people can actually relate to.

  28. Chris Houlihan said,

    Wrote on February 22, 2008 @ 11:59 pm

    FNL is more than a TV show. The impact of this program on our family is unlike any other TV program. As others have said, we too feel like we know the characters. We look forward to watching it every week. FNL is about all that is familiar — a high school, a town, families, teen survival, day to day moral struggles, and human frailties. Although we don’t live in Texas, Dillon is anywhere USA. PLEASE continue this amazing program. It is a truly wonderful peek into American society and represents the best in American television.

  29. Mark Richard said,

    Wrote on February 23, 2008 @ 1:48 pm

    Please do not cancel FNL. It is the best T.V show on. I will stop watching all NBC shows, if it is cancelled. Does anybody know how to raise so much hell, that they would bring it back?

  30. Hilda said,

    Wrote on February 24, 2008 @ 3:29 pm

    I love FNL it is a fun show to watch, it has a little bit of everything. Please keep it on!!!!!! Thanks

  31. G.D. Thomas said,

    Wrote on February 24, 2008 @ 3:40 pm

    One thing TV does so poorly these days is to define and develop characters…and FNL does this better than any show on TV. The residents of Dillon are as real as can be; they are the people who live and work with us in our own communities. The quality of the scripts and the ability of the actors to interpret them is what sets this show apart. Please, NBC, do the right thing and give this show more of a chance to build the audience.

  32. John Parnell said,

    Wrote on February 24, 2008 @ 4:28 pm

    Friday Night Lights is the only network show I watch on fridays. Its by far the best show on friday night. I am shocked that NBC is even thinking of pulling this show off the air. This show is great and I never miss a episode. Please leave this show on the air.

  33. Tom said,

    Wrote on February 24, 2008 @ 10:42 pm

    It is easily the best show on network TV. If it manages to land a rerun deal it will catch even more attention. I was hooked from the first episode. PLEASE KEEP IT ON THE AIR.

  34. Justin said,

    Wrote on February 25, 2008 @ 12:14 am

    FNL,great show,love to watch, PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL!

  35. Lynn said,

    Wrote on February 25, 2008 @ 8:47 pm

    I look forward to this show every Friday night. Please don’t cancel one of the only good shows on tv.

  36. Michelle Barbaro said,

    Wrote on February 25, 2008 @ 9:25 pm

    Please Please Please….don’t cancel Friday Night Lights. This is a really great show with a fabulous cast, I look forward to seeing this program more than anything else on television right now. If I happen to miss an episode I watch it online. I never miss it. Please keep it on the air.

  37. David Carr said,

    Wrote on February 25, 2008 @ 9:51 pm

    I was very disappointed to find out that Friday Night Lights may not return to NBC. This is one of our favorit programs. We have it taped every Friday in case we are out of town. This is a good wholesome family program. Please reconsider this. We need programs like this.

  38. Ruby said,

    Wrote on February 27, 2008 @ 6:25 am

    FNL is the best show I’ve seen in a long time. The only problem is you are airing a show about Texas High School Football on Friday. Every able bodied person, regardless of age, is at a Friday night football game!! I tape it because my I am at the games with my 15 year old grandson, who also loves the show, and we watch it together the next day. Please do not take that show off the air and replace it with either a violent police show or another reality show.

  39. frances said,

    Wrote on February 27, 2008 @ 7:57 am

    If NBC takes Friday Night Lights off the air, I will stop watching TV completely. If all the networks can show us is gore and junk, there’s no use in watching.

  40. Miranda Hart said,

    Wrote on February 27, 2008 @ 6:29 pm

    If NBC takes Friday Night Lights off the air a lot of females will be very upset. The thought of not ever seeing Riggins out on the field again is just heart breaking. Also NBC will just leave us hanging. They have to at least finish the show without leaving fans hanging.

  41. jamie elizabeth said,

    Wrote on February 28, 2008 @ 11:11 am

    i am so upset that nbc cancelled FNL.
    it brought me and mom close for the 1st time in a long time.
    it was exstreamlly inspiring to watch and it makes me sad that its over. but gosh if there was something i could do to save it i would!! it seems like all the shows i watch get cancelled!!
    im not gonna let it happen with this
    who cares about american idol!!
    that show is over rated and so fake!!
    FNL is more family oriented and more people in my area watch it than american idol
    i really hope that it comes back!!!

  42. ANGRY VIEWER said,

    Wrote on February 28, 2008 @ 2:09 pm

    Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….I hate NBC. First you take Kidnapped, then you take Studio 60…and now FNL. It’s like you look for great shows that you can cancel. FNL had great characters, plots, and very good conflicts. An then you want to complain about ratings…someone at NBC needs help!!! They put a show that was gaining ratings and that is structured around the largest profit grossing sport in AMERICA! (that’s football by the way.) on a Friday. Unless you never went to a highschool football game in your life or HIGHSCHOOL for that matter…you would know that all those games are played on Friday! Putting a show about Highschool football on tv on a day that High school football games are being watched live is just STUPID. Mainstream media in America sucks and the rating system in America needs to be strongly looked at and fixed! It shouldn’t be up to the 300 random households that get selected what the rest of America watches on tv. Unless–this is part of NBC’s way of helping us loose weight and exercise more! Well then yes–Thank you! I will go read a book and go play some football instead of wasting my time with you stupid network!!!

  43. Jane said,

    Wrote on February 28, 2008 @ 3:44 pm

    I love the show and watch it (on DVR) religiously! We even rented the entire season 1 to catch up on what we missed. Taking this show off the air would be a very huge mistake!

    With all of the crap on TV these days, it is a shame that FNL - a show that is so worthwhile and hit so close to home - would be cancelled. Shame.

  44. Nichelle said,

    Wrote on February 29, 2008 @ 7:14 pm

    For once there is a show that is funny, serious, deals with realistic issues of parents, teens, family is well written and produced and you have sabatoged it with the crazy time slot schedule you have done over the past two seasons!!! Don’t put it up against Amer. Idol - hellllloooo? no show does well in that time slot up against that show…and on Friday night??? hellllooooo? All us booster club parents are AT THE GAME til 10 pm!!! You owe this show a proper time slot and you owe the creators, writers, cast and Fans a REAL chance and positioning to see how great the show can be. And if you want to increase viewers without spending money, try some grass roots, online marketing and some street teams at local football games across this great nation!! Facebook / myspace fan pages..win a chance for Riggins to be a guest judge at your cheerleading competition, something!!! And that ’s free advice from a marketing exec, football mom & FNL FAN!!! With all the crap programming and reality shows that are rotting the minds of our young folks, please keep something that actually has some substance and life lessons. I have watched every episode of season 2 on-demand at 99cent an episode and I will soon by the DVD’s to contribute to the cause…

  45. Amy Belk said,

    Wrote on February 29, 2008 @ 8:28 pm

    I will just die if you take away the one thing that I look forward to each week. I am so addicted to this show. My heart just skips a beat evey time I see that Tim Riggins do his thing. It must be a good show to have this affect on a 31 year old mother of two. I haven’t been this crazy about a show since Beverly Hills 90210!!! It takes me back to my high school days and makes me feel young again. Please don’t cancle..Just move it to a better time slot. I work with 25 women and it’s all we talk about each week. This may only be a sitcom, but it is nice to have some of that good old fashion wonderment of what will happen next week. I am so sick of reality T.V. Please just give FNL a chance!!

  46. Barbara said,

    Wrote on February 29, 2008 @ 9:15 pm

    It’s disappointing that another quality TV show is in danger of being cancelled. I refuse to watch reality TV. It’s insulting. Friday Night Lights is well-written, photographed in a unique way with great music. Its story lines show imagination and give a vivid picture of the culture of a small Texas town and the world of high school football there. The characters are believable, impeccably acted, and well-developed - we care about them - and that’s a sign of good TV show or film. There has to be a place on the TV schedule for quality shows whose ratings may not be high, but which have a loyal following of viewers. The number of shows I regularly watch gets smaller every year because well-written shows have become more and more rare. Please save FNL!!

  47. Jim Snyder said,

    Wrote on February 29, 2008 @ 9:20 pm

    the quality of “friday Night Lights” has never been questioned by me, i have been a faithful watcher since it first aired. as someone who has been involved with high school sports for most of my life, the show’s writers (now that they are back at work) have portrayed a very good portrayal of small-town high school football as the religion that it can truly be during the fall. please, NBC, do not deny the viewing public such a well-done show.

  48. June Sinclair said,

    Wrote on March 1, 2008 @ 1:02 am

    Please don’t cancel this show! It’s the one network show that I honestly look forward to watching. My heart swells just hearing the beginning notes to the music as the show starts. This is an hour of television that is real, that is relatable, and is about todays families.

    Don’t take this well-written, well-acted show away, and leave room for one more ‘reality’ show to take it’s place.

  49. Bill Turner said,

    Wrote on March 2, 2008 @ 12:31 pm

    This is the best all around show on Television; it’s all about life as it really is and not just a football show. My wife is an avid fan as well and we watch it before any others we record on our DVR.

    Keep the show on. The writers strike has not done it, or any other shows for that matter, any good.

    Thank you!

  50. Ruth Anne said,

    Wrote on March 4, 2008 @ 3:19 pm

    DO NOT CANCEL FNL!!!!!!!!
    ARE YOU NUTS? WITH ALL THE TRASH AND JUNK ON T.V., HOW COULD YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT CANCELLING FNL?!?
    PLEASE COME TO YOUR SENSES. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE!!!!

  51. sohl413 said,

    Wrote on March 4, 2008 @ 7:36 pm

    FNL is one of the only shows worth watching on television. My husband and I love the characters and story lines. It would be a huge loss to take this show off the air. Why is it that the good shows never get a chance, yet the stupid ones that should be canceled remain?!? Please don’t end Friday Night Lights.

  52. Eric said,

    Wrote on March 5, 2008 @ 8:46 pm

    GO TO http://www.savethatshow.com/Save_That_Show__Friday_Night_Lights.shtml

  53. kdoyle said,

    Wrote on March 5, 2008 @ 10:46 pm

    bring back FNL

  54. Dyones P. Oliveira said,

    Wrote on March 9, 2008 @ 1:52 pm

    I JUST LOVE FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, THAT SHOW CAN’T NEVER
    BE FINISHED… FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS FOREVER AND EVER…
    I’M A BRAZILIAN FAN OF THIS… DON’T LET ME DOWN… I LOVE THIS!!!

  55. Jessie Whipple said,

    Wrote on March 9, 2008 @ 9:11 pm

    Friday Night Lights needs to be saved because it is one of the best shows out there. It shows the reality of life and how to handle the pressures of life as well.

  56. Nichole Van Scoy said,

    Wrote on March 10, 2008 @ 7:59 pm

    I love Friday Night Lights. It should definately stay. Most of the shows these days are reality shows. They just don’t make shows like FNL anymore. I like reality shows but come on, FNL definately beats out most of the shows that are on T.V. now. PLEASE do not take the best show on T.V. off the air.

  57. Nichole Van Scoy said,

    Wrote on March 10, 2008 @ 8:10 pm

    Has NBC already canceled the show? I have not heard yet!! PLEASE PLEASE NO! I agree with everyone else about Tim Riggins. I also enjoy watching Coach Taylor too!!

  58. Kitty said,

    Wrote on March 11, 2008 @ 1:53 pm

    Please do not cancel FNL. It is what I look forward to watching every Friday.
    Thanks
    Kitty

  59. Theresa said,

    Wrote on March 16, 2008 @ 1:02 am

    FNL is one of the most honest, realistic shows on the air. Incredible casting, real life situations, something we can watch with our kids…Gee, maybe that’s why it’s being considered for cancellation?

  60. egreene said,

    Wrote on March 20, 2008 @ 5:39 pm

    My measure of a show is determined by whether i am upset when an episode is missed. If that happens i frantically call all of my people who tune in because i have turned them on this little gem. This is our coffebreak show. It has strong identifiable characters, realistic storylines and great subtle acting. My week isn’t complete without it.NBC should consider carefully when making a decision about its status, because it is only one of the three shows we follow on this station. The other two (the office and 30 rock) we began to follow after seeing the ads while viewing FNL. I have yet to return to regular tv viewing since the strike. This show will compel me to return. Think about it.

  61. Kim McAllister said,

    Wrote on March 22, 2008 @ 12:37 pm

    This is one of the best shows NBC has aired in a long time. It has great characters and storylines. It is so much better than all the “cheaply” produced reality t.v. — Please do not cancel this show leave a little bit of quality viewing for the individuals that appreciate it.

    K McAllister

  62. jd said,

    Wrote on March 27, 2008 @ 10:36 pm

    BEST SHOW EVER… KEEP IT ON!!!

  63. DC said,

    Wrote on March 28, 2008 @ 4:20 pm

    I love this show; I never miss it. Please do not cancel Friday Night Lights!

  64. Angie said,

    Wrote on April 6, 2008 @ 8:12 pm

    This is one of the best shows on TV - my husband and I are hooked- the show makes looking forward to Friday, even more. We are in our early 40’s and we still can relate to it - We will very disapointed if it’s cancelled!

  65. Heather Lynch said,

    Wrote on April 8, 2008 @ 11:54 am

    I absolutely loooovvve this show, and I am very glad it will have another season! I know when the writers “canceled” it, many people, including myself were devastated! So i am VERY happy now!!

  66. Jørn Pedersen said,

    Wrote on April 30, 2008 @ 5:31 pm

    Please don’t cancel!! It’s a fantastic show, and it’s very popular here in scandinavia. I think it shows how wonderful the life and people are in America.

  67. Micky said,

    Wrote on August 1, 2008 @ 3:52 am

    it was really a nice season, i am waiting for next season also. any body knows about next season?

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