Sporting News’ Chris Littmann Interviews Jason Katims

With Season Three of Friday Night Lights in the books (for the DirecTV audience) and Season Three about to kick off on NBC on Friday (9 p.m. ET), it seemed like the perfect time to chat with Friday Night Lights executive producer/lead writer Jason Katims (pictured first row, second from the left). This thing is chock full of spoilers so do not read this if you’ve not watched tonight’s season finale. My full phone conversation with Katims from last week is just beyond the jump to shield the eyes of those who have yet to watch any of this season. (And if you haven’t joined the discussion, come talk about the finale here.)

Littmann: Jason, thanks for taking some time out to speak with me today. I want to cover a lot of ground, but let’s start where we’ll be leaving things as Season Three closes. We’ll get into specifics in a bit, but overall, a lot was left open to continue the series, but I think we tied up enough of the main storylines that fans wouldn’t be left screaming “What if?” if for some unfortunate reason we don’t get Season Four. Was that something in your mind, trying to play both sides of the card, and how difficult was that to accomplish?

Katims: It was definitely something that was on our minds. We definitely wanted to figure out a way to keep a lot of balls up in the air, a lot of possibilities for what would happen for next year. In terms of the part of the show that feels resolved, that kind of was inherent in the story we were telling this year. We were telling a story about a lot of people graduating so I felt the closure part of it was pretty much taking care of itself. But we wanted to keep the feeling that there’s still a lot of story to tell and there’s situations and questions, and I feel very much that we were able to accomplish that. The finale was definitely a balancing act between the two things you mentioned. We wanted to have a very satisfying episode with resolution, but we also wanted to keep things open for hopefully moving forward with another season.

To read the rest of this interview click the source below.

SOURCE: SportingNews.com

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