Finally found some time to sort and cap Adrianne in season 2 of Friday Night Lights and added them to the gallery

High-school football, the state of Texas and actress Adrianne Palicki seem made for each other, especially during this new fall season.

On Tuesday, Sept. 7, ABC Family starts running Palicki’s most recent series, the small-town Texas high-school football drama “Friday Night Lights,” from the beginning.

The critically acclaimed but ratings-challenged show about dedicated Dillon High School Coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) and his team, the Panthers (and later, the East Dillon Lions), premiered on NBC in 2006 but teetered on the edge of cancellation from its earliest days.

Things looked particularly dire at the end of season three, until a Hail-Mary deal split production costs between NBC and satellite-TV provider DirecTV, ensuring the show’s survival for at least two more seasons.

DirecTV’s 101 Network aired season four last fall and will air season five starting on Oct. 27. NBC aired season four earlier this year, ending on Aug. 6, but has yet to announce a premiere date for season five, which finished production last month in Austin, Texas.

Palicki finds herself in the enviable position of possibly being on two current series at the same time, provided her new FOX drama “Lone Star,” filming in Dallas, Texas, and premiering Monday, Sept. 20, sticks around long enough to overlap with her appearance in the last two episodes of what looks to be the final season of “Friday Night Lights.”

“You know what,” says Palicki, “Texas loves me, or I love Texas, whichever way you want to put it. I love shooting in different locations, and I love getting out of L.A.”

On “Friday Night Lights,” Palicki plays Tyra Collette, a Dillon High wild child who turned her life around and wound up going to college. The last two episodes of season five find her back in her hometown.

Speaking the day before heading to Austin to film the episodes, Palicki explains, “It’s Christmas, ultimately, so it’s a visit. But I get to be there when we really end the show with everybody, which is really therapeutic in a way. Then I get to go start a new life three hours away, with a new TV family.

“I think we’re going to wrap at the Collette house, which I’m really excited about. It’s going to be very emotional. A lot of people are already feeling it — me and Kyle. There’s going to be a party of course, and everybody’s going to be there.”

Asked if Tyra has changed, Palicki says, “No, she’s still Tyra, but I think that she’s more grown-up. She’s still got her cowboy boots and her jeans, but she’s not so shiny and colorful, if you will. The wardrobe is the main thing that has changed.

“She’s always been this ray of light and honesty. She’s always been aware of what’s going on. The way that she says it, though, is just very direct. She still has that.”

In “Lone Star,” Palicki plays Cat Thatcher, a Houston socialite who’s unaware that her handsome husband, Bob (James Wolk), is actually a con man with another life and another love in another Texas town.

Regarding her two Lone Star State characters, Palicki says, “I’m lucky I keep playing these very strong female characters. Their strength comes from different places, obviously, but both of them are very strong, smart individuals — one just happened to be raised in a much more conducive environment.

“They’re both very worldly, and they see things that maybe other people don’t see or try to pretend they don’t see.”

Palicki also stars in the new version of the cult favorite “Red Dawn,” in which a high-school football team, the Wolverines, fights to save Spokane, Wash., from foreign invaders.

Although the film’s release has been delayed to an as-yet-unspecified date, Palicki says, “It’s going to be a big movie. People are going to gravitate toward it, because it’s a cult classic.”

Interestingly enough, one of Cat Thatcher’s nephews in “Lone Star” plays high-school football, so Palicki can’t seem to escape the sport, big screen or small.

“Thankfully,” she says, “I love football. I seem to be surrounded by that always.”

Palicki grew up in Toledo, Ohio, where her beloved father’s favorite team was the Detroit Lions, and now it’s hers as well.

“Don’t laugh,” she says. “You’re laughing at heart. It’s OK.”

Reminded that, in seasons four and five, the East Dillon Lions are part of “Friday Night Lights,” Palicki says, “Exactly, and by the way, speaking of the Dillon Panthers, I went to Whitmer High School, and they were the Whitmer Panthers, with the exact same purple.

“The first time I went to the football game for shooting, I was sitting there, like, ‘Oh, my God, this is so weird.’ It was unbelievable. I felt like I was right back there.”

Palicki also doesn’t mind wrapping her hands around a pigskin once in a while.

“I love touch football,” she says. “That’s the sport I’m best at. Linebacker’s really good for me. I loved the episode in which we did have the Powder Puff game on ‘Friday Night Lights,’ and I got to be linebacker.

“I like to tackle people.”

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Montage of various Lonestar promos that are out. I really can not wait for this show to start!

Ahead of the season premiere of the new Fox series Lone Star on September 20 at 9pm, the network is introducing fans to the Lone Star cast prior to the drama. In the latest Lone Star clip from Fox, fans get to know actress Adrianne Palicki (aka Cat in Lone Star) in under 90 seconds.

Palicki, a native of Toledo, Ohio who left her hometown in search on an acting career at 18, reveals her inspiration for becoming actress, three good things about her life, her hero, and more.

Say hello to Adrianne Palicki who plays Cat in Lone Star.

I have just added 5 HQ promos of Adrianne Palicki and the cast of “Lone Star” into our gallery!

Ausiello: I asked Adrianne Palicki—star of Fox’s near-perfect fall drama Lone Star—about rumors of a Tim/Tyra reunion in season 5, and here’s what she told me: “I think if anybody ends up together it should be them. They’re so right for each other. They’re the same.” I tend to agree with her. Palicki and I also see eye to eye when it comes to costar Connie Britton’s long-overdue Emmy nomination. For her thoughts on that, and scoop on FNL‘s wrap parties (plural), press play below.

To view a interview where she talks about Connie, go to EW and check it out!

On Monday, Adrianne Palicki was photographed during the 2010 Summer TCA Tour and Fox TCA All-Star Party in Los Angeles and I have just added a total of 124 HQ/MQ photos from both events into our gallery!

My favorite new fall show boasts sexy stars, drama, intrigue and a pretty amazing cast. Basically, ‘Lone Star’ is the complete package.

The show’s hot new leading man (James Wolk) will get to romance two fabulous ladies (Adrianne Palicki and Eloise Mumford) while he’s also working a major con job on an oil magnate (Jon Voight) and trying hard to get out from under his fellow conman dad’s (David Keith) thumb. It’s soapy, dramatic, suspenseful, heartwarming … oh, I’m done gushing. I’ll let the stars do it for me.

I caught up with the ‘Lone Star’ cast to get their take on the show and their characters, working with the legendary Jon Voight and being one of the sexiest casts on TV.

From TV Squad

Adrianne Palicki will soon be calling another part of Texas home to film “Lone Star,” but she hasn’t forgotten “Friday Night Lights.”

“I’m in the final two episodes,” Palicki tells Zap2it. “It was amazing … a lot of the original cast came back and so you get to really say goodbye to everybody. It’s going to be emotional but it’s going to be really good.”

“Friday Night Lights” just wrapped production on Season 5, which will be the show’s last season. The final few weeks of taping came on the heels of Best Actor and Actress Emmy nominations for Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton, who anchor the show as Eric and Tami Taylor. Palicki tells us the feeling on set after the nominations came out was incredible.

“Finally! The feeling on that show once everybody got nominated was like, ‘It’s about time!” she laughs. “And to go out with that was so huge, it’s a good way.”

The final season of “Friday Night Lights” will air this fall on DirecTV and in the spring of 2011 on NBC. “Lone Star,” starring James Wolk, Jon Voight and Palicki, premieres Monday, Sept. 20 at 9 p.m. ET on FOX.