Vinny Guadagino: couldn't live with his Jersey Shore buddies, couldn't live without them.

Tags: Big Brother, Charles Mesure, Dallas, Desperate Housewives, Dexter, evel dick, Friday Night Lights, Jersey Shore, Terra Nova, Vinny Guadagnino

With another Fourth of July upon us, it's time to celebrate our freedom, and for us TV junkies, that means freedom from crappy shows and, more specifically, certain awful characters. Some of these people were on blissfully canceled shows, while others were recently ousted from halfway decent programs. Let's toast our independence from these most dreadful creations:

Tags: friday night lights, game of thrones, gossip girl, hellcats, house, Scotty McCreery, smallville, the office, two and a half men, v

More work for former Panthers!

Tags: boardwalk empire, friday night lights, haven, last man standing, pan am, parks and recreation

Today in news: Breaking Bad gets shopped around, Lucy Liu joins the wave of movie stars coming to TV, and the Bachelorette finale is a fail.

Tags: AMC, Ashley Hebert, Breaking Bad, Friday Night Lights, Grimm, John Corbett, Lucy Liu, Once Upon a Time, Parenthood, Peter Berg, Southland, The Bachelorette, The Office, Todd Milliner

We're still depressed about the end of Friday Night Lights and then we started watching the new "Now or Never" arc of Degrassi only to see a very familiar plot from being played out on the teen show. Now we loved FNL, and we love Degrassi, but FNL did make a major misstep with one little tiny murder storyline that dragged down its second season. Out of all the fantastic issues that Lights tackled, why, oh why, did Degrassi choose that one?

Tags: degrassi, degrassi now or never, friday night lights

The finale for Friday Night Lights aired on NBC last night (lucky DirecTV users saw it earlier this year), and after having been burned in the past by other series finales, we were worried that everything would be tied up neatly in a bow or that there would be too many loose ends left unresolved. After all, even strong shows struggle to produce an ending that provides closure while still keeping true to the show's feel, no matter how much time producers have to plan things out. The Sopranos went for the sudden cut to black, Seinfeld tossed everyone in jail, Battlestar Galactica turned everyone into Cylon/human hybrids, Lost confused and frustrated us with a purgatory twist and Smallville cheated us out of a full-on Superman costume. But FNL proved that it is deserving of that Best Drama Emmy nomination by delivering a sweet and wonderful ending that gave us goosebumps and had us reaching for the tissues all at the same time. Here's why:

Tags: friday night lights

Sometimes a show is just not worth saving.

Tags: 30 rock, free agents, friday night lights, masterchef, new girl, nurse jackie, real housewives of orange county, smash, snoop dogg, the magicians

Dear Kyle - Please say yes! - Love, TWoP

Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Betty White, David Bowie, Friday Night Lights, Glee, In Treatment, John Stamos, Kyle Chandler, news, Powers, The Governator, The Playboy Club