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:

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In what seems to be growing consensus among executives, the Hollywood writers strike could continue for sometime - but this could mean a faint glimmer of good news for one group of shows: struggling prime-time series.

Very soon the networks will begin running low on original episodes of most shows. Any new episode will become an increasingly valuable commodity.

No network is going to waste paid-for episodes. So the marginal shows will stay on until their episodes run out between now and the end of January.

Thanks to the strike, some marginal shows will surely get to run their full slate of episodes — and perhaps win a shot at coming back next year.

In this group are first-season series like Journeyman and Life on NBC, K-ville and Back to You on Fox, Big Shots on ABC and Cane on CBS.

Some holdovers may also be affected for the better, such as Friday Night Lights on NBC, Men in Trees on ABC, 'Til Death on Fox and Shark on CBS.

A show like Friday Night Lights, for instance, with high critical praise and low ratings, could get a chance to break through in January, when it's likely to be among the few fall series with some new episodes left.

As previously reported, Friday Night Lights started Season 2 production early and producers managed to get 15 episodes completed before the strike.

Continue reading in the New York Times ...

We're always of the opinion that Friday Night Lights is TV's best series, and last night's episode may have been the best of Season 2 so far. Follow the link to our episode guide to "Pantherama!" and relive all the action or catch up on what you missed. From beginning to end, it was vintage Friday Night Lights.

Our photo gallery, quotes and music guide from "Pantherama!" are still to come, along with our Round Table discussion. As always, you can discuss the episode, characters and everything Friday Night Lights in the Insider's forum!

There's plenty going on tonight on the newest episode of Friday Night Lights. Lyla and Tyra (Adrianne Palicki) are forced to work together. Riggins needs a place to stay. Smash gets recruited. A Matt Saracen love triangle heats up!

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Adrianne Palicki balances her natural beauty with plenty of sass, attitude and toughness as Tyra Collette on Friday Night Lights. The photo of Palicki below - appearing in Maxim, and taken from the Dillon powderpuff football clash in Season One - certainly exemplifies this about her character.

Displaying textbook defensive lineman form - reminiscent of Michael Strahan - Adrianne Palicki looks poised to burst through the line and sack quarterback Lyla Garrity (Minka Kelly). Of course, a vendetta against the other team never hurts if you need some extra motivation. Check out this photo ...

Adrianne Palicki: A natural at the pass rush. Scouts, take notice.

The wardrobe trailer for Friday Night Lights — an 18-wheeler with mirrored doors on the back — is more or less a clotheshorse's dream, reports today's Austin American-Statesman: it's a gigantic walk-in closet.

Professional stylists and costumers buzz around the long racks of clothes, sectioned off by character. The trailer is stationed in the Northeast Austin church parking lot that serves as one of the base camps for the NBC show.

One thing, though. These aren't exactly fashion-forward clothes.

The show, set in fictional Dillon, has won acclaim for its small-town authenticity - in everything from the characters' homes and cars to their wardrobe.

"That's one of the most challenging aspects of our job — not to make people look too hip," costume supervisor Jaimey Sloan says. "Sometimes it's hard to find stuff that looks like they bought it in Dillon, Texas. But at the same time, we have actresses from L.A. who know what's in style."

Kathy Kiatta, a friendly but hurried woman in jeans and Western boots, is among those milling about. The costume designer, Kiatta oversees the characters' looks, from the main cast to those who appear just briefly.

"It's much faster than shooting films," says Kiatta.

To help keep it all straight, every outfit for every scene is logged. Each garment also gets a tag that details which scenes and episodes it's been in, to avoid having the characters wear something two days in a row.

As Kiatta and Sloan think about tomorrow and the upcoming episode, supervisor Taylor Rierden has the current episode on her mind. It's her role to make sure the actors are in the right clothes at just the right time.

Costuming can be a challenging job — but can be a fun, too, of course. One of Kiatta's favorite parts is dressing the character of Brian "Smash" Williams, the Dillon Panthers' cocky running back, played by Gaius Charles.

"I have so much fun shopping for this guy," she says, waving a hand over his rack of jewel-toned, fine-spun button-downs.

They decided Smash, a ladies man with a job at the Alamo Freeze, spends his extra money on clothes. "I get a lot of stuff from (Neiman Marcus) Last Call."

Surveying another character's rack, she shakes her head.

"Poor Matt Saracen is not spending his money on clothes."

With sick Grandma to care for and his dad in Iraq, Saracen (Zach Gilford), the Panthers' quarterback, doesn't have the means nor time to look spiffy.

Continue reading in the Austin American-Statesman ...