Today’s Guest: Drew Waters, co-star, “Friday Night Lights”
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NBC’s “Friday Night Lights” exists in one of network TV’s most rarified niches. It’s one of those shows that, if seen strictly by the numbers, should long be a memory. But tomorrow night, May 7, 2010, it’ll be back on the Peacock for its season four premiere at 8 p.m.
DREW WATERS podcast excerpt: “When season three was ending, I had no clue until the twelfth episode that I was taking over. Season four is not holding back any punches. It goes in hard.”
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There aren’t many times that NBC has guessed right on quality programming in recent years. This is the network that renewed the hardcore cop show “Southland” for a second season then canceled it without airing a single episode of that order. And you know which company yanked the “Tonight Show” away from Conan O’Brien and gave it back to the shark-jumping Jay Leno.
But in the case of “Lights,” NBC guessed right. It took on a partner, DirecTV, went for a shorter season commitment more in tune with a cable drama such as “Mad Men” or “Rescue Me,” and gave fresh life to a fan favorite.
That, and it’s a show centered around high school football. In Texas. Hard to go wrong there.
All of that makes my guest today, Drew Waters, a lucky man. He was not an actor on the show’s original network run, coming on board in a limited role after the show became one of the first network/satellite hybrids. In other words, if the NBC show died in its infancy, he would never have been on it.
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