Scanner : friday night lights

What Happens When You've Got Nothing Left To Live For...

Ina Maier — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:12:00 GMT

OK, here's the deal. I had this whole post written up about this 14-year-old girl whose dad sold her into sexual / marital slavery for $16 grand, 100 cases of beer and a couple steaks or something like that, but it probably sounds familiar. Because it is. Scanner Brian wrote about it this morning. (The sandbagging son-of-a...)

Anway, I'm sharing this with you to try and illustrate how absolutely stupid my brain is today. (Really, really stupid.) And once my brain realized that post was worth nothing, it pretty much just shut off. So then I sat there for like an hour panicking about my life, my other top-secret job at which I'm currently supposed to be working, and realized I had nothing left to live for.

Except...

...for the fact that Friday Night Lights returns tomorrow. So here are some hot photos of my favorite members of the cast.

Coach Taylor (I love you).

Tim Riggins (I also love you, and you're from Canada).

Matt Saracen (I love you, but a little less than I love Tim Riggins and a lot less than I love Coach Taylor. Cheer up.)

And seriously, if I had my way, do you know how fast I'd restart my life and be born in Norman, Oklahoma, marry my highschool sweetheart who will eventually become the Coach "Taylor" of Norman North High School, home of the Timberwolves, Oklahoma State's high school football champions (remember, this is fictional), who, shortly thereafter, will become the Coach "Taylor" of the OU Sooners, have football playing babies, and get drunk with my sons' friends after the high school pep rallies?

Answer: Real fast.

Anyway, I'm serious. And outta here.

F*ck Yeah, Ryan Gosling!

Once You Go Black

I Hate Myself for Loving You: Hayden Paniettiere

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:44:00 GMT

We're going to try something different with this one: reasons why we love (and really get annoyed by) Heroes star Hayden Panettiere. The eighteen-year-old inspires love of the dirty, dirty variety in us, but there's a lot that pisses us off.

This one's all in pictures...

WE LOVE:

HATE:

In summation: we love Hayden (especially dressed as a Texas cowgirl-- damn, forget the cheerleader role and get her on "Friday Night Lights," stat!) And we gotta be hatin' at the same time (whether it's a seethrough dress we didn't want to see or holding hands with BFF Paris Hilton while Paris Hilton is between deepthroats on a lollipop. Yuck-- we feel terrible for the lollipop.)

As for blubbering over Flubber, we're a bit torn. Last week, we learned how hot PETA protestors could be-- activism is sexy but naked activists are sexier. It makes us realize how young and vulnerable she is that she can cry over spilled tuna, and that just kills our Scanner boners:

But it's always up to the readers to decide these anyway...

TV Gets Back to What It Does Best: Canceling Shows

Bryan Christian — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:06:00 GMT

Now that the Writer's Strike is over, it's time to figure out what shows are coming back and when. We got a couple of links to pages here and here with hints, and heard something on NPR yesterday, and while we haven't done a case-by-case comparison, we'll summarize what we know:

-- Lots of shows -- particularly sitcoms -- are going back into production now, and will be burning off already shot episodes or shooting a handful more to be shown through May or beyond. Big names include: 30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica, The Office, My Name is Earl, Lost, and a few other shows you probably first saw on iTunes.

-- Gossip Girl -- which all of us Scanner bloggers just realized means nothing to us but has a fairly dedicated following, we hear -- will return with new episodes aired through the summer, so just like we did with 90210 and The OC, expect us to "get way more into it than we thought" around June.

-- No 24 and no more Heroes, Life, Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, Moonlight, Private Practice or Chuck for the year; they will likely all be relaunched or continued next fall.

-- Cancelled or iffy: Bionic Woman, Cane, Life is Wild (which, like... huh?), Friday Night Lights, Prison Break, One Tree Hill, Reaper, Back to You, and ER, which we imagine NBC has been looking for an excuse like this to unload since Noah Wyle left.