Friday Night Lights: Will Season 5 be the Last?
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Friday Night Lights: Will Season 5 be the Last?
Connie Britton says she won't be surprised if they came back for a 6th season.
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My thoughts: I find it interesting that neither Kyle Chandler or Connie Britton did pilots for next season. I may be looking too far into that, but it is interesting.
I heard he was offered the lead in Spielberg's new SciFi series and he turned it down.
Could they make a sixth season work? Should they?
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My thoughts: I find it interesting that neither Kyle Chandler or Connie Britton did pilots for next season. I may be looking too far into that, but it is interesting.
I heard he was offered the lead in Spielberg's new SciFi series and he turned it down.
Could they make a sixth season work? Should they?
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In the interviews I've seen with the cast and director around the time seasons 3+4 were picked up, they're approaching it like "We're so thankful we were given two more seasons to play out our storylines--it will be the perfect ending to FNL."
In other words, I don't know if it's been set in stone that Season 5 will be the last, but I think everyone from the creators and cast to the NBC/DirecTV people are thinking that. If it got stellar ratings for some reason in the final season, maybe they'd think twice, but the chances of that are slim to none since it hasn't happened by now.
EDIT: Oh, and DVDJosh's link, too. :P
In other words, I don't know if it's been set in stone that Season 5 will be the last, but I think everyone from the creators and cast to the NBC/DirecTV people are thinking that. If it got stellar ratings for some reason in the final season, maybe they'd think twice, but the chances of that are slim to none since it hasn't happened by now.
EDIT: Oh, and DVDJosh's link, too. :P
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Yeah, I read that too .. but then Katims responded with this.
He could be in denial ... season 5 will probably be the last, I just find it interesting that some think it may not be.
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Re: Friday Night Lights: Will Season 5 be the Last?
Yeah, I read that too .. but then Katims responded with this.
He could be in denial ... season 5 will probably be the last, I just find it interesting that some think it may not be.
He could be in denial ... season 5 will probably be the last, I just find it interesting that some think it may not be.
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NBC IMO is not going to co-pay for another season. Have you seen the Friday ratings? Barely over 3M viewers and barely over 1.0 in the demos. And I don't think the Directv airings are really making any ratings dents either. I'm just glad that it got 3 more seasons after NBC was going to can it.
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Well EW had a blurb that they were just finishing filming the last episode last week. So not sure when they'd get time to do pilots. Either way the mini-spoilers they had has me eager to see how they're going to wrap it all up. Hey, I'm just glad this show lasted this long and survived the 2nd season (the Landry-kills-the-rapist story?!?!).
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I'd love nothing more than another season, but I resigned myself to 5 being the last season long ago. That's already two more seasons than it should have gotten, so to NBC and DirectTV.
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It's done. IIRC, ABC Family did buy the rights to re-air all 5 Seasons, so there is a small chance it might come back for 13 more episodes. Small, very small. But I doubt it when the whole TWC buying NBC right now. They may not want to be in business with DirecTV.
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I too am very thankful that we are getting 5 seasons of this wonderful show. Hell, I fully expected it to last 1 season and 2 if we were lucky. I am perfectly content and satisfied with season 5 being the last.
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Fine with me. The show ended with season 3 as far as I'm concerned - the contrivances forced upon the show with the high school split and a sudden appearance of a "hood" in a small town, with all the drug dealing, gang banging, abortions, etc etc, really drew me out of the show.
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Re: Friday Night Lights: Will Season 5 be the Last?
Fine with me. The show ended with season 3 as far as I'm concerned - the contrivances forced upon the show with the high school split and a sudden appearance of a "hood" in a small town, with all the drug dealing, gang banging, abortions, etc etc, really drew me out of the show.
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With only one high school, I figured it was a town of about 5-10,000. But after this last season, I would say it's a town of about 50-60,000, even though I think they want it to seem smaller than that.
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I just looked up Winston-Salem for the hell of it, and it shows at least a dozen public high schools.
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My wife is from a small town in Texas. She said it was a huge deal when they got their first McDonald's. I would imagine if Applebee's is there it's a decent size town.
Appearance of a "hood?" Just because a character hadn't been through the hood in the first 3 seasons doesn't mean it couldn't have existed.
I'm still watching live on NBC, but I don't get all the gripes about 4 at all (after reading a bumped thread). Still the same great show to me, week in and week out.
Fine with me. The show ended with season 3 as far as I'm concerned - the contrivances forced upon the show with the high school split and a sudden appearance of a "hood" in a small town, with all the drug dealing, gang banging, abortions, etc etc, really drew me out of the show.
I'm still watching live on NBC, but I don't get all the gripes about 4 at all (after reading a bumped thread). Still the same great show to me, week in and week out.
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I don't know about small towns in Texas but I am well-acquainted with a small town in PA. I went to college in Lewisburg, PA. The population of the town is about 5,000. 9,000 if you include the college kids. It includes a Wal-Mart, McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Applebees. One high school.
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I don't know about small towns in Texas but I am well-acquainted with a small town in PA. I went to college in Lewisburg, PA. The population of the town is about 5,000. 9,000 if you include the college kids. It includes a Wal-Mart, McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Applebees. One high school.
Amhurst/Holyoke, MA would be a ghost town if it weren't for UMass.
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I agree. But the complainers can bail for all I care. I'm enjoying it (Hello? No love at least for "The Son" episode?!?!), and the final episodes for one more season are in the can. I'm going to watch and love every last one of 'em too!
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If you really want to debate... they eat at EZ's Pizza in the first episode (it's actually the one on North Lamar just north of Downtown across from Central Market)... the only two places in Texas with EZ's are San Antonio & Austin. Therefore the show takes place in a suburb of Austin... to be precise, it's filmed in Pflugerville (a northern suburb of Austin), just north of here. Pflugerville has a population of around 17,000 the last time I checked... which would make it relatively "small town".
I'll just be sad when it's off the air because it's fun to spot local spots on the show, lol. There is Generation Y (which I think is now "My Generation") that will be filming (and SET) in Austin in the Fall season though.
I'll just be sad when it's off the air because it's fun to spot local spots on the show, lol. There is Generation Y (which I think is now "My Generation") that will be filming (and SET) in Austin in the Fall season though.
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