It isnt football season for a few months still, but NBCs “Friday Night Lights” is making a little progress down the field this summer in its fourth season.The critics favorite, which follows a coach and teenagers in a Texas football town, was never able to translate its Peabody and Emmy awards to ratings success. Its down from its high point — never very high, to be sure — during the second season before it moved to originals on DirecTV that were later repeated on NBC. Yet with the fall TV season over and CBS “The Ghost Whisperer” itself canceled out of originals, “Friday Night Lights” is putting together a quiet string of modest victories at 8 p.m. Fridays even as it has diminished ratings.The latest victory was last Friday when “Lights” tied for first place at 8 p.m. in adults 18-49 with 3.6 million viewers and a 1.1 rating/5 share in the demo, according to preliminary data released by Nielsen Media Research. It is tied with a repeat of ABCs “Wife Swap.” NBC said that was the fifth consecutive week that “Lights” has been No. 1 or tied. This week it also won its time period in adults 18-34 and adult males. Thats still down from its season-to-date averages as well as previous seasons performances.

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