The Friday Night Lights universe is about to get slightly more complicated, as Variety is reporting that David Gordon Green is in talks to direct a new “reimagining” of the series. The project will be a movie, but it will be unrelated to both the Billy Bob Thornton movie from 2004 and the critically acclaimed TV show…

Ensuring that the number of inevitable “Oh, but it’s not really about sports” conversations you’re likely to endure over the next few months is about to take a sharp uptick, Hulu announced today that it’s acquired all five seasons of Friday Night Lights for its streaming library. Fans and newcomers alike will now be…

It’s the first day of spring, despite all evidence to the contrary, and Netflix is marking the occasion by announcing the latest crop of new arrivals. As of April Fool’s Day, you’ll be able to stream Lost Boys, Bad Boys, and, to complete the arc, The Family Man. In addition to older releases, the platform has also…

Kurt Braunohler and Lauren Cook are making a living off of being married. The couple launched their podcast, Wedlock, earlier this year on Audible. Now in wide release, Wedlock finds the pair of comedians expounding on the virtues and pitfalls of married life, talking about how simultaneously serious and silly the…

Jess Merriweather made her Friday Night Lights debut in season four, when she shook up the East Dillon Lions with her coaching aspirations and relationship with Vince (Michael B. Jordan). We talk to Jurnee Smollett-Bell about Jess and Vince’s romance and what it was like working with Jason Katims on two series.

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, December 15. All times are Eastern.

Sometimes it’s just a similar premise. Sometimes the resemblance is uncanny. But every now and then a TV episode can’t help but recall another. In Double Takes, we explore the doppelgangers of television, the unshakable connections between them, and the illuminating distinctions.

From Fresh Prince to Cheers to Dawson’s Creek, the deadbeat dad is a trope TV has gone back to time and time again. Since this Sunday is Father’s Day, we decided to put a positive spin on this depressing TV tradition: the deadbeat dad who made good. Sometimes they have perfectly good reasons for abandoning their…

Every day is a holiday—at least, according to the people that run those “What national day is it?” calendars. This year alone, we’ve observed such auspicious occasions as National Chicken Cordon Bleu Day and National Hug A Newsperson Day (yes, we’re mad that you forgot about it). But this day, May 25, belongs to the…

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, May 25. All times are Eastern.

Special Topics In Gameology explores a specific corner of the gaming world in a miniseries of articles. For this edition of the feature—School—we’re examining the ways games interpret the classroom experience and become classrooms themselves.

A few months ago, on the midseason finale of ABC’s Scandal, Olivia Pope had an abortion. The scene not only played out under the choir version of a Christmas carol (“Silent Night”) but overlapped with a monologue of her father proclaiming that “family does not complete you, it destroys you.” This was a shocking moment…

2016 marks the fifth year of the ATX Television Festival, a weekend-long celebration of television held annually in the Texan capital. But 2016 represents a more important date in the history of the state, the city, and the television produced therein: It’s the 10th anniversary of Friday Night Lights, the small-town…

A single television episode can exemplify the spirit of its time. A Very Special Episode presents The A.V. Club’s survey of TV at its most distinctive.

Thanksgiving weekend in the United States is a four-day festival of overindulgence: Giant meals, giant balloons representing pop-culture favorites, giant savings at the big box store on Friday morning. As we did in 2013, The A.V. Club aims to contribute to this tradition of extreme consumption with a guide to some TV…

According to Variety, the visionaries behind the O.C. musical we reported on earlier this year are back, and they’ve managed to add singing and dancing to another beloved TV show: Friday Night Lights. The team behind the production “recently got the legal go-ahead from NBC Universal,” so The Unauthorized Friday Night…

All right, everyone listen up and huddle close. Maybe it’s been a long week already, or maybe that tiring process is just about to begin. It doesn’t matter what the circumstances or the specifics are that have brought you to this brink of defeat. What matters now is that you listen to these inspirational words, get…

Characters added in the middle of a TV show’s run get a bad rap. For every Cousin Oliver or Scrappy-Doo, there are characters who actually added something to their show, even rejuvenating a longrunning series’ later seasons. Some start as stand-ins for departed cast members, then take on expanded roles—others begin as…