Friday Night Lights wins with hard-hitting drama
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Friday Night Lights is a lousy name for a very good movie. Relax, I know the title is based on investigative journalist HG Bissinger&#39;s 1990 book, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream, acclaimed
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NBC took top honors during  the last week before Christmas, winning the adults 18-49  demographic and claiming the two top shows, "Sunday Night  Football" and the season finale of "The Biggest Loser." CBS won  in viewership.
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Boosted by a Dallas  Cowboys-Chicago Bears matchup on &quot;Sunday Night Football,&quot; NBC  won Sunday night&#39;s primetime against season premieres on CBS  and Fox.
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Friday Night Lights, HG &quot;Buzz&quot; Bissinger&#39;s nonfiction best seller about a Texas town&#39;s obsession with high school football, could have been made into several different movies.
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LOS ANGELES  - The Billy Bob Thornton  football drama "Friday Night Lights" sold about 1.3 million  combined DVD and VHS units to rental and retail stores  nationwide Tuesday, its first day in release, according to  industry sources.
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ELMONT, N.Y. -- The ending had all the drama and excitement of a Hollywood script, and it left almost everyone smiling. It was the feel-good story of the year in a sport that desperately needed one.
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The dramatic combo of "Lost" and "Alias" packed a punch again on Wednesday, giving ABC the nightly win in primetime by a wide margin.
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SAN DIEGO -- Football is a big deal everywhere, but no where is it taken more seriously than in West Texas. That&#39;s the premise of a new sports movie, &quot;Friday Night Lights.
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Friday night was a good  one for Disney Channel and USA Network.
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ST. LOUIS -- Don't look now, but there's a bit of drama building in the &quot;other&quot; League Championship Series.
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TAMPA - Maybe it was appropriate that the lights went out on Tampa Bay&#39;s playoff party plans before Sunday&#39;s game against the Carolina Panthers even started.
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By DAVID BAUDER  NEW YORK - Three nights of escapist entertainment that kept parents and their children watching television together led Fox to a dominant week in the ratings.
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Helped by the last "Heroes"  for a while and a strong New Orleans Saints-Dallas Cowboys  matchup on "Sunday Night Football," ratings laggard NBC pulled  out a win in the key adults 18-49 demographic last week, while  CBS took a 12th consecutive week in viewership.
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Though the sports-themed Friday Night Lights failed to dislodge Shark Tale from the top, the critically acclaimed drama grabbed a healthy $20.
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The message in âFriday Night Lightsâ doesn&#39;t just apply to the sport of football. And you don&#39;t need to love football or be able to tell the difference between a wide receiver and a running back to understand
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The oil derricks and barren landscape that serve as the setting for &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; seem foreign to people from the small, rural communities of Arcadia and Cicero, Ind.
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Simmering feuds, festering grudges and dramatic showdowns are not in keeping with the Christmas spirit, but they do make for good television.