Exclusive: Friday Night Lights Up with a New Family
Janine Turner by Jim Spellman/WireImage.com; D.W. Moffett courtesy The CW
Friday Night Lights
not only has a new first-broadcast home (on DirecTV's Channel 101), it also will feature a few new faces when it returns in the fall.
Janine Turner (of
Northern Exposure and strategically placed beauty mark fame) and
D.W. Moffett (
Life Is Wild,
Hidden Palms) have been cast in the recurring roles of Katie and Joe McCoy.
The affluent McCoys move to Dillon from Dallas, with their (as-yet-uncast) teen son in tow. The kid, you see, is a high school freshman with mad football skills who will be fancied by many as the new Jason Street. That, as you can imagine, will put just a wee bit
more pressure on one Matt Saracen.
Katie and Joe will be introduced in the first two episodes of the third season, which premieres Oct. 1 on DirecTV. NBC unspools the new episodes starting in late February/early March 2009.
Someone pinch me - Janine Turner?!
And
TVGuide.com celebrity blogger D.W. Moffett? -
Matt Mitovich
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