Philadelphia Inquirer Reports on Season 5 FNL Finale

WARNING: This article includes spoilers about the season 5 finale of FNL. Read ahead only if you don’t mind! Also, make sure to check out the photo album contained at the bottom of the article in the link!

How did Philadelphia get to host filming of Friday Night Lights, the critically praised, Texas-shot, DirecTV/NBC series about a high school football coach?

Connections.

Producer Nan Bernstein said writers wanted to use an “industrial Pennsylvania city and thought Pittsburgh, but we had an aggressive shooting schedule.”

Bernstein simply reached into her playbook. She coproduced the CBS series Hack, which was shot here from 2002 to 2004. Tuesday’s work at Temple University and Frankford High was a trip home as she greeted some of her old crew.

The exteriors were part of FNL’s series finale, to be shown next year. Tami Taylor (played by Connie Britton) job-interviews at a Philly college (”Braemore College – whose prop signs read “per angusta ad augusta,” or “through hardship to triumph”).

Read more: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein/20100722_Inqlings___Lights__shines_on_city__thanks_to_connections.html#ixzz0uRyCu6g7
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