There’s good news and bad news regarding the Glenn Close legal drama ‘Damages.’ The bad news is that FX has real concerns about picking up the show for another season because of the cost. The good news is that Sony has turned to DirecTV to co-broadcast ‘Damages.’
If this sounds like a paradigm you’ve heard before, you have. Currently, DirecTV shares the broadcast rights to ‘Friday Night Lights’ with NBC. That’s how the Peabody-award winning program has remained on the air.
The fourth season of ‘Friday Night Lights’ has already run on DirecTV’s Channel 101 — a fantastic season by the way — and NBC will give present the same episodes again for a much larger audience when the show premieres on May 7. (Of course, NBC could have chosen a night other than Friday — one of the least watched nights of the week — but there are fans out there waiting for this quality TV show.)
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