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As fans saw at the end of Season 3 of "Friday Night Lights," many of the show's characters were moving on with their lives. "Smash" Williams (Gaius Charles) and Jason Street (Scott Porter), however, got moving multi-episode arcs before their characters said goodbye to the show. Three other characters will be getting their sendoffs in the show's fourth and fifth seasons, which will be 13 episodes each and will air first on DirecTV and then on NBC (Season 4 debuts Oct. 28 on DirecTV and summer 2010 on NBC). In Season 4, Lyla Garrity (Minka Kelly) and Matt Saracen (Zach Gilford) will get "goodbye" arcs that will last for several episodes. The farewell arc for Tyra Collette (Adrianne Palicki) would have also occurred in Season 4, but Palicki has some work lined up for the next few months: She'll be in the remake of "Red Dawn" and she's also in the third episode of "Supernatural's" fourth season. As a result, we won't get Tyra's farewell arc until Season 5. The next two seasons of the drama about life and football in a small Texas town will be shot consecutively, by the way, starting this fall. UPDATE: A representative for the show says that Taylor Kitsch, who plays Tim Riggins, is a series regular for the upcoming season. He has a film committment late in the year but he will be back on "Friday Night Lights."

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/08/11/friday-night-lights-exclusive-matts-stay-extended/

Zach Gilford has scored more playing time on Friday Night Lights. Sources confirm to me exclusively that the actor’s season 4 farewell arc as Matt has been expanded from five to seven episodes. According to my Panthers mole, Gilford’s run will likely fall during the first half of FNL’s 13-episode fourth season, which premieres on DirecTV Oct. 28 with an episode directed by series creator Peter Berg.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Tom Cruise's son is among the newest Wolverines to join the remake of "Red Dawn," the 1984 action movie about a group of teenagers who form an insurgency when their town is invaded -- this time by Chinese and Russian soldiers. Connor Cruise, 14, will join fellow new recruits Josh Hutcherson, Isabel Lucas and Edwin Hodge in the MGM/UA project. Already cast are Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck and Adrianne Palicki. Cruise is playing Daryl, the mayor's son and best friend of tech geek Robert (Hutcherson, in the role originated by C. Thomas Howell). Lucas is Erica, head cheerleader and the Peck character's girlfriend whom he desperately hopes to spring from an internment camp. Lea Thompson played the character in the original. Hodge will play Danny, the coolest kid in school and star wide receiver who helps establish the resistance. The young cast heads off in a few weeks for military training in an undisclosed location. Shooting will then begin in Detroit for a September 24, 2010 release. Dan Bradley is directing Cruise debuted in December as the young Will Smith character in "Seven Pounds." Hutcherson starred in "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "Bridge to Terabithia." Lucas recently appeared in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." Hodge has a recurring role on Fox's "Mental" and recently appeared in the feature "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane." YahooNews

Friday Night Lights: While Bromstad thinks FNL is "a sensational show" and "on-brand," she added, "Unfortunately, it doesn't have the ratings that we needed to have to, you know, to justify it on the fall schedule. Our plan is to use that as sort of a premiere summer program that is on-brand." ..

The blog won't let me comment but I just wanted to respond to David. Every source has confirmed that the series does not debut on NBC until Summer 2010.

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