Friday Night Lights panel: the DirecTV deal, two departures, and a new school year - TCA Report
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NBC and its various cable stations are making their presentations this day and tomorrow. Since it is Sunday, the critics got a little bit of a break and didn’t have to start until noon, when a lunch session was held for Friday Night Lights. This session had a tiny bit of added juice, due to the very special deal NBC struck to have DirecTV shoulder the cost of producing the series in exchange for the rights to air new episodes on the satellite service first before they air on NBC. Thirteen episodes will be produced and will air in October on DirecTV’s 101 Network, and they’ll air in February on the Peacock network.
Not surprisingly, there were as many questions about the new arrangement as there were about the creative aspects of the show. Show-runner Jason Katims and DirecTV entertainment head Eric Shanks fielded most of those questions, and the cast of the show fielded the rest.
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