The Show Must Go On

Last week, NBC announced that it renewed a deal with DirecTV to continue airing the best show on television that nobody's watching: Friday Night Lights. Now entering its fourth season, FNL is loosely based on the novel by H.G. Bissinger and was first adapted for film before director Peter Berg brought it to television. But the show has become about much more than a football team in a small West Texas town. It's become a show about small-town life and the real-life issues that face almost all families in our nation. You won't find a better written, better acted, better produced show on the air. Oh, and it's filmed on location in Austin, Texas. Check out the story I wrote about this amazing show in the December 2008 issue of Austin Monthly magazine.