Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch (Tim Riggins), will play Gambit (Remy LeBeau) in the new movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Taylor Kitsch signed a three-picture deal and will be joining the X-Men stars Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Liev Schreiber (Sabretooth), Danny Huston (William Stryker), Lynn Collins (Silver Fox) and Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool).

We're psyched - X-Men Origins: Wolverine is set to open May 1, 2009.

Friday Night Lights Insider has written its episode guide to "Seeing Other People," the terrific episode from November 30. Follow the link for the full rundown!

With guilt eating away at him all season, Landry Clarke (Jesse Plemons) appears to have reached his breaking point in Friday's new episode of Friday Night Lights, "Seeing Other People." Here is NBC's official preview for it...

If you thought the murder plot was dead when Landry's car went up in flames two episodes ago (see "How Did I Get Here"), think again. It looks like poor Landry simply can't take it anymore. We're interested to see what happens.

As always, you can discuss the episode - there's plenty more going on this week besides Landry's revelation - and everything else related to Friday Night Lights in the official Insider forum. Click to share your thoughts!

Friday Night Lights has a new recruit in Aaron Garza, a former Texas high school football star and current minor league baseball player scheduled to appear on the critically acclaimed NBC drama next month, BuddyTV reports.

Garza is making good on his promise to venture into acting in the event a career in baseball fails to pan out. The Traverse City Beach Bums player will make his Friday Night Lights debut on December 7 in the role of the defensive captain for the Dillon Panthers' latest opponents on the gridiron.

Aaron Garza signed with the Traverse City Beach Bums in the middle of last summer, after completing his senior season at Texas State University. Garza hit .341 with 15 doubles and 5 home runs as a senior at Texas State.

Before he wowed audiences with his batting skills, Garza lived his own version of the Friday Night Lights lifestyle as an All-District and All-Central wide receiver for Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, where the series is filmed.

He has also appeared in several national TV commercials for Wal-Mart, Captain Crunch, Radio Shack and Budweiser, among others. He has also modeled for Saks Fifth Avenue and Texas Monthly Magazine of late.

NBC has just launched an auction on its website with a bunch of different props from its hit shows. Friday Night Lights is one of the shows featured.

A portion of the proceeds from the auction will benefit the United Way. The NBC auction runs through December 3, at which point a new batch of props are going live! Here are the items relating to Friday Night Lights up for bids...

• Dillon Panthers Cheerleading Uniform
• Official Tim Riggins Panthers Jersey
• Football Autographed by Friday Night Lights Cast
• Autographed Lyla Garrity Cheerleader Megaphone
• Jason Street's Panthers Football Helmet

To bid on any of these awesome Friday Night Lights items and see some of the other stuff up for auction from other hit NBC shows, just click here!

The ratings are in for the most recent episode of Friday Night Lights, November 16's "Pantherama!" Take a look at the ratings from the 9-9:30 p.m. interval ...

CBS - Moonlight
Viewers: 8.19 million (#2), A18-49: 2.7/ 8 (#1)
NBC - Friday Night Lights
Viewers: 6.45 million (#3), A18-49: 2.2/ 6 (#2)
ABC - Women's Murder Club
Viewers: 8.82 million (#1), A18-49: 1.7/ 5 (#3)
CW - Friday Night Smackdown!
Viewers: 4.74 million (#4), A18-49: 1.4/ 4 (#5)
Fox - Don't Forget the Lyrics
Viewers: 4.38 million (#5), A18-49: 1.6/ 5 (#4)

Now let's look at the 9:30-10 p.m. interval ...

CBS - Moonlight
Viewers: 8.22 million (#2), A18-49: 2.7/ 8 (#1)
NBC - Friday Night Lights
Viewers: 5.47 million (#4), A18-49: 2.0/ 6 (#2-T)
ABC - Women's Murder Club
Viewers: 9.06 million (#1), A18-49: 1.9/ 6 (#4)
CW - Friday Night Smackdown!
Viewers: 4.93 million (#5), A18-49: 1.5/ 4 (#5)
Fox - Don't Forget the Lyrics
Viewers: 5.51 million (#4), A18-49: 2.0/ 6 (#2-T)

It appears Friday Night Lights averaged 5.96 million viewers for last Friday's episode. Interestingly, however, the show ranked second and tied for second in the key 18-49 demographic, the most heavily targeted by advertisers.

Here's hoping for even better news this week.

"Pantherama!" may have been the best episode of Friday Night Lights' Season 2 so far. Here's the beginning part below. Follow the link to our video section and watch the rest in its entirety! It's certainly worth an encore.

As always, you can discuss "Pantherama!" and all things Friday Night Lights in the Insider's forum! We welcome comments and viewpoints from all fans.

The official cast of Warner Brothers' live-action Justice League of America movie is expected to be unveiled next week, but new reports claim several actors have already been cast in the George Miller-directed project.

Previously reported contenders Adam Brody (The O.C.), Common (American Gangster), Teresa Palmer (Wolf Creek) and Scott Porter (Friday Night Lights) have won roles in the film, several sources report.

Adam Brody is said to be playing Wally West, a.k.a. The Flash, opposite Common as John Stewart, the Green Lantern.

Palmer is not going to play Wonder Woman but rather one of the film's villains, Talia Al Ghul.

AICN claims Scott Porter might be playing Superman, but IESB counters with "our sources tell us he was up for the role of The Flash and obviously Adam Brody won out, we've heard nothing about him being cast as Superman."

It wasn't too long ago that HBO pulled the plug on the surfer drama, John from Cincinnati. However, fans of the show's star, Austin Nichols, can continue to get their fix thanks to his new stint on Friday Night Lights.

Nichols, whose multi-episode arc began last Friday, plays Noah Barnett, a new teacher at Dillon High who forms a bond with Julie Taylor (Aimee Teegarden), the teenage daughter of guidance counselor Tami Taylor (Connie Britton).

In an interview with TV Guide, Nichols said his character's relationship with Julie may go beyond what's considered appropriate student-teacher relations.

"In the beginning, my character doesn't even realize that he's overstepping boundaries," Austin Nichols said. "Or if he does, he chooses to ignore them. It's blatant that he's crossing the line, but he doesn't feel any remorse until later."

Austin Nichols as teacher Noah Barnett in "Pantherama!"

The 27-year-old also said that even if it might seem out of character for Julie to get involved with an older man, the fact that she's going through very real issues is enough to drive her to do something unexpected.

"Well, what's great about the show is that Julie is definitely sweet but, like all of the characters, she is so complicated," Austin Nichols said. "She is emotional and just going nuts with adolescence, fighting with her parents... It's so real."

Aside from having an array of complicated characters, Nichols, a native of Austin, Texas, where the show is filmed, said that Friday Night Lights has successfully captured the essence of small-town Texan football culture.

"I had never seen it, though I had heard it was great, and then they offered me this character. I watched a bunch of episodes and was in tears," he said.

"The show resonated with me so much because I lived in that world and know about it, but it probably resonates for anybody who watches it. They nail it."

Although Nichols has finished filming his stint on Friday Night Lights, his fans can rejoice in knowing that the actor may return to the series again.

"I'm done for now, but I've heard they want to bring me back," he said. "I think it's in the works that Noah will come back."

Welcome to the Friday Night Lights Caption Contest, a Monday tradition. All you have to do is this: take a look at the picture from "Pantherama," think of a good caption, click "comments" and fill out the Insider's online form. Responses go live instantly, and you can fill out as many as you want!

Click here to see who won last week's edition of the contest and read the full list of responses we were sent. Then get ready for an all-new contest below ...

This week's Friday Night Lights Caption Contest image:

Good luck and thank you for making Friday Night Lights Insider the best Friday Night Lights fan site online. We hope you enjoy and visit the Insider often!