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Jul 28,2010

Minka Kelly To Reprise Her Role on Katims’ Parenthood

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This is an excerpt from a Parenthood set visit that St. Louis Today just went on:

Finally came a formal Q&A session including 16 cast members, with only Mae Whitman missing. (She’s in the “Scott Pilgrim” movie and was attending the premiere.) Executive producer Jason Katims announced that Billy Baldwin is joining the cast in a recurring role as Adam’s boss at the shoe company; he’s also reportedly a love interest for Sarah (Lauren Graham). Another cast addition: Minka Kelly of Katims’ “Friday Night Lights” will return as therapist Gaby.

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Jul 28,2010

ExecutJason Katims Tells TCA Panel: Season 5 Is “Quite Possibly the Last”

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LOCATION: TCA

THE SKINNY: While speaking at today’s TCA panel for NBC’s TV show PARENTHOOD, executive producer Jason Katims spoke about his other NBC show FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (which is being co-funded with Direct TV) and its future beyond the forthcoming Season Five.

“We just finished shooting the fifth and quite possibly the final season,” says Katims. “It looks like that’s what it will be. It was a wonderful show to be a part of. It was unqiue and a one-of-a-kind show.”

LOCATION: TCA

THE SKINNY: While speaking at today’s TCA panel for NBC’s TV showPARENTHOOD, executive producer Jason Katims spoke about his other NBC show FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (which is being co-funded with Direct TV) and its future beyond the forthcoming Season Five.

“We just finished shooting the fifth and quite possibly the final season,” says Katims. “It looks like that’s what it will be. It was a wonderful show to be a part of. It was unqiue and a one-of-a-kind show.”

SOURCE: IfMagazine.com

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Jul 09,2010

Katims, Britton & Chandler Comment on Emmy Love

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“I’m so grateful. It really feels like a gift. We’re about to wrap the show after 5 seasons, so this is especially wonderful and so unexpected. And I’m thrilled for my TV husband, Kyle too… It really feels like an acknowledgment of the show.”

– Connie Britton, Emmy Nominee, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series – “Friday Night Lights”

“I am thrilled for Connie and Kyle. I will admit I had to read the email several times before I believed it. Kyle and Connie have both created once in a lifetime nuanced, complex and compelling characters — it is no small thrill for myself that after four years not one but both have been recognized. I am also thrilled that Rolin Jones has been recognized for his beautiful script “The Son”, an uniquely powerful episode of television. And, to Linda Lowy and our incredible casting agents who have been recognized yet again for all they bring to the show.”

– Jason Katims, Executive Producer

“DIRECTV is thrilled to congratulate the ‘Friday Night Lights’ team and Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler on their recent Emmy nominations, recognition they so richly deserve. We’ve long admired the series and their outstanding work and are proud to share this honor with them.”

–Patty Ishimoto, Vice President, Entertainment & General Manager, The 101 Network/DirecTV

“I’m so grateful. It really feels like a gift. We’re about to wrap the show after 5 seasons, so this is especially wonderful and so unexpected. And I’m thrilled for my TV husband, Kyle too… It really feels like an acknowledgment of the show.”
– Connie Britton, Emmy Nominee, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series – “Friday Night Lights”

“I am thrilled for Connie and Kyle. I will admit I had to read the email several times before I believed it. Kyle and Connie have both created once in a lifetime nuanced, complex and compelling characters — it is no small thrill for myself that after four years not one but both have been recognized. I am also thrilled that Rolin Jones has been recognized for his beautiful script “The Son”, an uniquely powerful episode of television. And, to Linda Lowy and our incredible casting agents who have been recognized yet again for all they bring to the show.”
– Jason Katims, Executive Producer

“DIRECTV is thrilled to congratulate the ‘Friday Night Lights’ team and Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler on their recent Emmy nominations, recognition they so richly deserve. We’ve long admired the series and their outstanding work and are proud to share this honor with them.”
–Patty Ishimoto, Vice President, Entertainment & General Manager, The 101 Network/DirecTV

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Jun 17,2010

Entertainment Weekly Reports On a Rekindled FNL Romance in Season 5

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Here are the highlights from that previously teased article by Michael Ausiello in this week’s Entertainment Weekly (beware: spoilerish!)

“We went into the season knowing that this may be the last episode of the show,” acknowledges executive producer jason Katims. “So if it is, we ant to make sure that it’s a satisfying ending.”

Katims hints that the final batch of episodes may find a season 1 couple making another go at romance. Teases the exec: “We’re looking at Tyra and Riggins reconnecting.”

Aren’t Tim and Tyra related now? In-laws? I have to say, this idea gets me a little excited because Becky will flip out…am I being mean? Ha.

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Jun 02,2010

A Message About the Music from EP Jason Katims

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The following is the excerpt that adorns the inside CD jacket for the Friday Night Lights Vol. 2 Soundtrack. As a fan above everything else I found the words very moving and sentimental. I’m glad to know we have fine people like Jason Katims taking care of our show.

“One cannot understate the importance of music to Friday Night Lights. It functions in so many ways — whether it’s adrenaline feeding a football game; out of control hip hop at a high school football party; a lilting country tune in a bar as Coach Taylor unloads to Buddy Garrity; or, as is the lion’s share of this collection, if it’s those unexpected, beautiful, lonely songs that bring you deeper into the core of this soulful, poetic, slightly sad but still hopeful, one of a kind television show.

I’m very proud of this collection of music beacuse it is a true representation of not only the most powerful songs, but the songs that have been used most powerfully in the recent seasons of FNL. ‘Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing’ brings me to that exruciating moment of Coach Taylor forfeiting his first game managing the Lions. ‘Something Good This Way Comes’ brings me to the hopeful and bittersweet opening images of the Season Three Finale; ‘If It’s the Beaches’ makes me think of Tyra and Landry reuniting at her front door as Landry is about to break another girls’ heart; ‘Killed Myself When I Was Young’ brings me to the football field where the battle worn Lions finally triumph and win a game. And there is no music that taps into the soul of the show better than W.G. Snuffy Walden’s beautiful main title theme (along with the rest of his and Bennett Salvay’s beautiful score).

If you are reading this it means you either have a lot of time on your hands or more likely you are a die hard fan of the show. And for that I am forever indebted. I hope you enjoy this music.”

–Jason Katims

Executive Producer, Friday Night Lights

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May 20,2010

Video of Jason Katims & Music Supervisor Liza Richardson Discussing FNL Soundtrack

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Friday Night Lights Soundtrack Vol. 2 “Behind the Music” (3 min) from Sideways Media on Vimeo.

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May 12,2010

Variety Reports on David Hudgins Returning as Exec. Producer For Final Season of FNL

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“Friday Night Lights” exec producer David Hudgins has sealed a large new overall deal with Universal Media Studios.

As part of the two-year, seven-figure deal, Hudgins will remain with “Friday Night Lights,” where he now serves as co-showrunner with Jason Katims, until the show’s conclusion.

“I’ve had a great experience on the show,” Hudgins said of “FNL,” which enters its fifth and final season on DirecTV this fall. (Show is also repurposed on NBC, which is just starting to air season four.)

“I love these characters, and when the chance came to come back and shepherd the series to its conclusion, it was too hard to pass up,” Hudgins said. “Plus it shoots in Texas, which is where I’m from.”

Hudgins had been on “FNL” until this past year, when he left to create Fox’s short-lived “Past Life.” With that show ending its run, the scribe was free to rejoin his old friends on “FNL.

To read the rest of this article go to: Variety.com

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Apr 28,2010

TV Addict Talks to Executive Producer Jason Katims About Friday Night Lights

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As much as fans have hated having to say goodbye to many of our favorite Dillon Panthers, would it be safe to say that the choice to have some of your original cast members graduate has resulted in some of the show’s strongest episodes to date?
Jason Katims: I think that in the third season we kind of made this decision that we were going to let go of some of our cast members. It was a really hard decision but we realized it wasn’t going to be good to have them hang around and be window dressing. So for Gaius Charles and Scott Porter we wrote these storylines for them that wound up being incredibly powerful. So when it came to the fourth season I felt â€” as sad as it is to do this because I love every member of the cast and feel lucky to work with them â€” I also knew that I could say with conviction that we were going to be able to tell a great story this way because it really does energize the writers into doing something good, knowing that they have to tell a big story about someone [Zach Gilford, Minka Kelly] in four episodes.

For those of us who do not subscribe to DirecTV, when we last left FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, Coach Taylor was forced to move from the comfy confines of Dillon High to East Dillon High. Where you at all apprehensive about such a big change in scenery for our favorite coach/father?
No. The move to a new school, to a new population and to a new part of town has really reinvigorated the show. We have four new incredible series regular cast members (Matt Lauria, Michael B. Jordan, Jurnee Smollett and Madison Burge) who have just stepped up and are all wonderful and at least to my mind are different then the characters that have come before it which just makes things very exciting and helps to keep having the show feel like its a retread and we’re revisiting the same stuff.

To read the rest of this interview go to: DVRPlayground.com

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Mar 19,2010

A Night At Sardi’s Alzheimer’s Benefit Features FNL Cast Giving Award to Jason Katims

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Last night, March 18, 2010 the stars of Los Angeles came out for the A Night at Sardi’s annual musical revue and gala, benefitting the care, support and research efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association. Laurie Burrows Grad founded this event 18 years ago in honor of her father, the late playwright Abe Burrows. To date, A Night at Sardi’s has raised close to $18 million in the fight against Alzheimer’s. Last night’s evening raised $1 million alone.

This year’s gala honored NBC’s “Friday Night Lights” and FOX Sports for their work in raising awareness of Alzheimer’s disease. Caregiver of the Year honors went to Serge Morales, whose wife was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s two years ago at the age of 55. Among the evening’s surprises:

The cast of ‘Friday Night Lights” (Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Aimee Teegarden, Scott Porter, Adrianne Palicki, Jesse Plemons and Louanne Stephens) presenting the Abe Burrows Entertainment Award to the show’s executive producer, Jason Katims.

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Mar 03,2010

Minka Kelly Guest Starring on NBC’s “Parenthood”

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Minka Kelly will be a guest star on Jason Katims’ new hit NBC show “Parenthood” beginning next Tuesday March 9th at 10pm EST. No details have been released yet as to how many episodes she will be on, but it appears that she will be either a teacher or educational therapist for Max, a young boy recently diagnosed with Aspbergers Syndrome.

Check out the promo for next week’s episode with Minka here: Parenthood 1.02

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