Yay! Friday Night Lights returns this evening. If I hadn’t already seen the first episode of series two online I’d be setting the Tivo. If you haven’t seen the first series yet I highly recommend you do so soon because, alas, I fear the second series may prove a disappointment.
If I’m right, it will be because NBC has killed the show in an effort to save it. It’s pretty well known now, I think, that despite all the (entirely-merited) critical acclaim it received, FNL struggled to find an audience throughout its first season. Was it a show about Texas high school football? Or was it a show about families and relationships and their struggles in a small and somewhat-down-on-its-luck town in the middle of nowhere? NBC couldn’t make up their minds.
But we can tell they have now. In the first place the show is being moved to Friday night.
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