FNL
If SNL can stand for Saturday Night Live, then FNL can stand alone for Friday Night Lights, one of my all-time favorite tv shows.  With one of the stupidest programming schedules I have ever seen.  And they wonder why the show didn't eat up the ratings.

First, they from NBC, couldn't decide what night to show FNL.  In it's 5 seasons, it was on Friday night (duh) three times, I believe.  Once on Wednesday and once on Tuesday, if I'm not mistaken. It could be just two seasons on Friday. 

This season it didn't premier with the other shows or even the mid-season pick-ups.  It started in April.  Well, that's a creative move.  Every viewer gets pumped up about the April sweepstakes.  It must have worked great because this is the second year they've chosen that iconoclastic pattern.

Yet if you subscribed to a dish, then you could have watched it in the Fall.  Talk about divide and conquer.  It came out in DVD in March.  Divisive yet again.

I couldn't wait for the final season so I became a DVD devotee and have already seen the entire series.  It was worth the price.  Just to fast forward through commercials.  One night this boring tv week I started with our HD channels and with the exception of Paid For programs, I clicked on 25 different channels to see how many were showing commercials.  I didn't get in a hurry just to prove my point, but I allowed enough time for regular regulated commercial breaks.  Some channels included sports, too, but the final result was 15 were airing commercials: 10 were showing dramas, news, sports, comedy, something like soaps in Spanish, and re-reruns of shows in syndication.

Oh for a rabbit trail or two. 

FNL will be missed.  I spent 19 high school football seasons announcing varsity games.  I understand the draw of the games, the crowd, the marching band, the half-time shows.  It's all good stuff.  FNL brought a little of that back to me and I will greatly miss it.

Next March when it won't come out on CD.