After a terrific Season 3 premiere, Friday Night Lights is back tonight with a new episode entitled "Tami Knows Best," and it looks like another good one.

On tonight's Friday Night Lights, Coach continues to back Smash as he struggles to get his foot in the door with a college program. Tyra butts heads with principal Tami, while Matt goes to new lengths to protect his Grandma and finds his estranged mother (Kim Dickens) in the process. Lyla and Tim experience new tensions.

You can discuss these new developments, your favorite characters and anything else you like in our Friday Night Lights forum before, during and after the program, sharing your thoughts with other Friday Night Lights fans!

Below is a promo for tonight's all-new episode of Friday Night Lights, "Tami Knows Best." Yes, yes she does. If the first two seasons have taught us anything, it would be that. Check out the promo for this sure-to-be-quality episode:

Below is a cool video putting together all of the commercials for Friday Night Lights promoting Season Three on DirecTV. They're pretty great, using some classic clips from the first two seasons and some new footage as well:

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Friday Night Lights came back with a vengeance last night.

Summer has passed in Dillon, Texas. Smash is coping with the terrible news that an injured knee will probably never enable him to run as fast as he once did. Tami has become the high school’s principal. Coach is struggling with the new rookie QB - and his overbearing dad. Lyla and Tim are totally on!

For a full recap, check out our recap of "I Knew You When" ...

After almost eight months (and one unprecedented DirecTV funding deal), Friday Night Lights is back tonight! The Season 3 premiere is titled "I Knew You When" and we can only assume this will be another great episode.

On tonight's Friday Night Lights, Coach Taylor fights to keep his job and help Smash; Tami faces new challenges as Dillon principal; Tyra frets over college; Billy proposes; and the tension keeps escalating between Lyla and Tim.

You can discuss these developments, your favorite characters and everything else in our Friday Night Lights forum before, during and after the program, sharing your thoughts with other Friday Night Lights fans!

If you don't have DirecTV, well, the phone's not gonna pick itself up.

It's been a long time coming, but Friday Night Lights is back! Season Three premieres this Wednesday night at 9 p.m., only on DirecTV channel 101!

Kristin Dos Santos of E! Online has the scoop on our beloved Dillon peeps - a new cowboy, a shirtless Tim Riggins, a two-steppin' Tyra, the departing Smash, an emotional Matt Saracen and romance, romance, romance.

Check out the clip below, Panther fans, for five solid minutes of new Friday Night Lights news, rumors, interviews, spoilers and gossip!

October 1 will bring commercial free HD programming to DirecTV subscribers as third season of Friday Night Lights will make its 101 Network debut.

As part of the unusual arrangement that's kept the show from being canceled, subscribers of DirecTV will get to watch episodes commercial-free and in high-definition before the show’s planned NBC run in early 2009.

This season Friday Night Lights will follow Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler) as he copes with an uncertain team after the graduation of star running back Smash Williams (Gaius Charles, who will have only a recurring role).

Tami (Connie Britton) will adjust to her role as the new Dillon High School principal and the ways in which her new duties affect the Taylor family.

Tyra (Adrianne Palicki), Lyla (Minka Kelly) and Tim (Taylor Kitsch) enter senior years and must grasp the pressures of high school romance - and of coming of age. And don't even get us started on Matt and Julie!

Other shows to air on 101 Network include Live From Dillon, Rock & A Hard Place, and Supreme Court of Comedy. DirecTV will also feature a sneak preview of Crash, the first original drama from Starz Entertainment.

The new 13-episode drama will premiere October 1 at 10 p.m. EST, following the Friday Night Lights Season Three debut.

Friday Night Lights' Zach Gilford, 26, a Chicago native, got a degree from nearby Northwestern but actually rooted for Michigan. It's a long story.

He was raised on the North Side but would rather chug phlegm than see the Cubs win a World Series. Gilford is an Ozzie Guillen guy. A Bears guy (he owns an authentic Nathan Vasher Bears jersey). A Bulls guy (a high school friend tattooed "Pip 33" on him in honor of Scottie Pippen, and his dog is named Pippen).

Anyway, we were there to talk about him and Friday Night Lights, a series so achingly well written and well acted that it almost makes you want to go through high school again. Season Three begins October 1 on DirecTV.

It isn't a perfect viewing arrangement, but it's better than waving goodbye to Friday Night Lights altogether after Season 2.

Peyton Manning is a huge fan of the show, which chronicles life and times in a small Texas town and its obsession with high school football.

That's what Manning told Scott Porter, who plays Jason Street, the Dillon quarterback whose life is forever changed when he suffers a spinal injury. Porter introduced himself to Manning not long after the Colts won Super Bowl XLI.

"I don't want to bother you," Porter said. "I just wanted to tell you congratulations on the Super Bowl."

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