Friday Night Lights roadshow adds Aimee Teegarden and Zach Gilford in L.A.
Deadline reports Aimee Teegarden and Zach Gilford will join Adrianne Palicki at a Los Angeles screening and Q&A on July 21.
By Poppy Nakagawa · Culture Writer
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Aimee Teegarden and Zach Gilford are heading back under the Friday Night Lights banner for a Los Angeles stop on the show’s 20th anniversary roadshow, according to Deadline.
The former NBC drama castmates will appear with Adrianne Palicki at the event, which is being hosted by Plex and ATX TV. The Los Angeles gathering is set for July 21 at 7 p.m. PT at Alamo Drafthouse in Los Angeles, Deadline reported.
The event will feature a screening of a Season 1 episode followed by a moderated Q&A with Teegarden, Gilford and Palicki in front of fans.
Teegarden, who played Julie Taylor, selected Season 1, Episode 10, “It’s Different for Girls,” for the screening, according to Deadline. The episode puts Julie and Matt Saracen’s relationship near the center of the story. Gilford played Matt on the series.
Palicki, who played Tyra Collette, had already been announced for the Southern California stop, Deadline reported.
The roadshow rolls on
The anniversary tour began earlier in July in Texas, with stops in Dallas and San Antonio, according to Deadline. After Los Angeles, the roadshow is scheduled to travel to Brooklyn, New York, before closing in Kansas City, Missouri, at the Full Tilt Film Festival.
The tour marks 20 years for Friday Night Lights, the NBC series that followed a Texas high school football team and the people around it.
ATX TV has also put out a related Member Rewind TV Club conversation from this year’s ATX TV Festival, Deadline reported. That discussion featured Palicki and Scott Porter, who played Jason Street, looking back at the series.
According to Deadline, the hour-long conversation took place during ATX TV’s Season 15 event and was initially available to ATX TV members. Members had ranked the Friday Night Lights pilot among the best.
Porter told members during that event: “My first pilot season, the fourth pilot I ever auditioned for, was this show.”
ATX TV has now published the full conversation for wider viewing, according to Deadline.
The Los Angeles event gives fans another in-person chance to revisit Dillon, Texas, with cast members who helped define the show’s early run.
This story draws on original reporting from Deadline.