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10. "Friday Night Lights" (NBC): Like a championship team, NBC's football drama "Friday Night Lights" is strong on all sides of the ball. It can display all the sweetness of a cheerleader's smile when it shows how Coach Eric Taylor juggles both his real family and his extended gridiron family. It shows the joy of being young and reckless and playing a game you love. But the show also hits harder than a blind-side blitz when it takes on subjects that many other dramas either avoid or mishandle: subjects ranging from disability to drug abuse, racism to mental illness. The "FNL" writers should consider holding a clinic that would teach the staffs of their rival hour-long dramas how to develop characters. Even secondary characters such as nerdy tight end Landry Clarke are fleshed out more than many leading characters on other series. The show itself is beautifully filmed and acted, and you can't help but get swept up in Dillon Panther fever when you watch it.