friday night lights

From book to movie, TV and back again. Friday Night Lights is finally returning to the big screen, but perhaps not how you hoped – new Halloween director David Gordon Green has signed on to direct an entirely new movie iteration of the high school football drama.

The road through the high school football playoffs begins this Thursday through Saturday, and many teams from the Pineywoods have Bi-District matches scheduled.

High school football is huge in Texas, and as a result, passions can run high at football games, on and off the field. But, what happened in Marble Falls, just west of Austin, on Friday night is unprecedented and inexcusable.

Adrianne Palicki, an actress most famous for her role as Tyra on "Friday Night Lights," will portray comic book heroine Wonder Woman in a pilot being shot for NBC. In the reboot, Wonder Woman will be a high-powered business executive, as well as a crime fighter...