A quick update for you guys – Friday Night Lights Season 3 is definitely happening.

NBC has decided to make a deal with DirecTV to bring your fave Friday Night Lights for the season 3. Hold your breath as no official announcement has been made by the network but there’s a chance that the official pick up announcement might come on April2, when ABC is doing a prime time schedule presentation in New York. The network searched for ways to renew the series after the fans voiced over the cancellation of show. Kyle Chandler (our beloved coach Taylor) revealed that season 3 will begin filming this June in Austin. He said that dot the i’s and cross the t’s.

It was previously reported that NBC was trying to recruit help from other channels to keep the show on air. However, the exact nature of the deal between NBC and DirecTV won’t be made public until it is official but it’s clear that first run of the new Friday Night Lights episodes would air on DirecTV and Friday Night Lights episodes would air on ABC shortly thereafter.

The show is one of the most critically acclaimed series on TV but still this show averaged 6.20 million viewers previous year and 6.18 million viewers this year. It can be a big boon for DirecTV and that’s why the network is interested in such deal.

This is great news because no one likes to give up on shows as good as Friday Night Lights. So far there’s no information when the series will be back but no need to worry because in the next two days we should officially be able to cheers for the Dillon Panthers, high school football team in a crazy town in Texas. Now the only thing to think about is what they are going to do about all the kids going to college next season.

Get in touch as only 2 days are left to know when will air Friday Night Lights Season3. The show recently finished up its second season, a 15 episode season what was cut short due to WGA strike. Click here - to download complete second season of Friday night lights TV show.