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.''
