Friday Night Lights (TV series)

Friday Night Lights is an American television series based on the book and the film of the same name. Peter Berg, the director of the film, is responsible for the development of the series. The series, which comes to a total of five seasons, was shown from 2006 to 2011 on the U.S. television network NBC. In Germany TNT series Friday Night Lights shone from 2009 to 2013.

Action

Dillon is a fictional small town in Texas, their pride and joy, the high school football team Dillon Panthers is that Friday night has its games. Eric Taylor is the new coach of the Dillon Panthers. Part of the team 's star quarterback Jason Street. As this it carries a paraplegic in the first game of the Panthers, plays the insecure replacement quarterback Matt Saracen for him. Jason Street and his friends have to learn to deal with his fate then. While the small town of Dillon keeps winning the championship at first impossible to create Coach Taylor and his team to win it despite obstacles the championship. Coach Taylor takes after the end of the season for a job at TMU in Austin at, but is due to his family back to Dillon and resumes his old post. A new talent, J. D. McCoy replaced a little later Matt Saracen at quarterback. When Dillon is divided into West and East Dillon, Coach Taylor is deducted from the Dillon Panthers. Instead, he is a new team, the East Dillon Lions coach, at a high school, which applies less understanding of football. The team has some good players, such as Luke Cafferty, who previously played with the Panthers or Vince Howard, who is set up by Coach Taylor at quarterback. After several defeats create the Lions, first retract profits. As their last game of the season against the Dillon Panthers is pending, they can also gain this scarce. In the next season, the Lions have serious chances of winning the title. However, many stones you will start to put in the way. Vince also has personal problems, because his father is released from prison. In the team there are tensions, perhaps because Luke is as a football player in the shadow of Vince. When Vince meets selfish decisions, the team loses its cohesion. Through the intervention of the coaches they win it back, however, and so can win the championship. The team at East Dillon Lions - but resolved because the funds of the city only for a team in Dillon, Dillon Panthers meet. Coach Taylor gets the line of the composite teams both teams offered, but draws instead of the end of the season to Philadelphia, because his wife Tami has there obtained a job as a school principal. In Philadelphia he is coaching a new, inexperienced team that still has much to learn.

Background

In the U.S. Friday Night Lights could never gain a larger audience and stood as a niche series shortly before the deposition. Due to the good reputation of the series at the American critics NBC could move the U.S. pay - TV broadcaster DirecTV after the second season in a collaboration to continue the production of three more seasons. From the third season, the series was broadcast by DirecTV therefore on the channel The 101 Network before the series ran on NBC.

The series was often praised for its deep character work and realistic portrait of South America. This achieves the series including through its documentary style. Instead of a tripod to use, the camera is moved. Especially the sharpness or blur is used as a stylistic device. The characters are often shown in close-up. In the series, the events in Dillon is also often commented about the team's football games and a radio host.

Instrumentation and synchronization

The television series was in Munich by the Berliner Synchron Munich (until 2010 as Dubbing Brothers ) synchronized to German.

Main cast

Supporting Actor (selection)

• Derek Phillips as Billy Riggins (59 episodes, 1x01 - 5x13 )
• Brad Leland as Buddy Garrity (58 episodes, 1x01 - 5x13 )
• Louanne Stephens as Saracen Loraine (44 episodes, 1x01 - 5x13 )
• Blue Deckert as Mac Macgill Coach (49 episodes, 1x02 - 5x12 )
• Kevin Rankin as Herc ( 20 episodes, 1x04 - 3x08 )
• Stacey Oristano as Mindy Collette (47 episodes, 1x07 - 5x13 )
• Daniella Alonso as Carlotta Alonso ( 10 episodes, 2x02 - 2x12 )
• Benny Ciaramello as Santiago ( 11 episodes, 2x04 - 2x15 )
• Jeremy Sumpter as J. D. McCoy ( 20 episodes, 3x01 - 4x13 )
• DW Moffett as Joe McCoy ( 20 episodes, 3x01 - 4x13 )
• Zach Roerig as Cash ( 6 episodes, 3x04 - 3x13 )
• Russell DeGrazier as Coach Stan Traub ( 26 episodes, 4x01 - 5x13 )
• Lamarcus Tinke as Dallas Tinker (24 episodes, 4x01 - 5x13 )
• Alicia Witt as Cheryl Sproles (9 episodes, 4x01 - 4x11, 5x13 )
• Angela Rawna as Regina Howard ( 18 episodes, 4x02 - 5x13 )
• Cress Williams as Ornette Howard ( 10 episodes, 5x03 - 5x13 )

Publication

In the U.S., Universal Pictures released the DVDs of the seasons. According to Universal Pictures Germany In Germany the series will appear only after a broadcast on free TV the DVDs. However no German free-TV channels has been found, the Friday Night Lights will air.

Awards

Friday Night Lights won the 2007 Emmy Award for Best Casting of a Drama Series. In addition to other Emmy nominations, especially for the casting, won the 2011 series an Emmy for best screenplay as well as a sequence with Kyle Chandler Emmy Award for the best male actor from a drama series. From the American Film Institute in 2006, 2007 and 2009 series was named television program of the year. The series has received from the American Cinema Editors for the section of the Pilots an Eddie Award, and two other nominations. Friday Night Lights has received numerous other nominations and awards.