{"id":7567,"date":"2010-07-19T23:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T04:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=7567"},"modified":"2010-07-19T23:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T04:08:34","slug":"damages-earns-two-more-seasons-at-directv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/07\/19\/damages-earns-two-more-seasons-at-directv\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Damages&#8221; Earns Two More Seasons at DirecTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DirecTV, which played a major role in saving the critically-beloved &#8220;Friday Night Lights&#8221; two seasons ago, came to the rescue of another acclaimed series.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left;margin-right:5px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/pictures.photo\/entertainment\/premiere-universal\/image\/8914843?term=rose+byrne\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/view1.picapp.com\/pictures.photo\/image\/8914843\/premiere-universal\/premiere-universal.jpg?size=234&#038;imageId=8914843\" border=\"0\" width=\"234\" title=\"Premiere Of Universal Pictures' Get Him To The Greek - Arrivals\" height=\"389\" oncontextmenu=\"return false;\" ondrag=\"return false;\" onmousedown=\"return false;\" alt=\"LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 25: Actress Rose Byrne arrives at the premiere of Universal Pictures' 'Get Him To The Greek' held at the Greek Theatre on May 25, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. 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Ratings for the series fell greatly this past season, and the DirecTV deal appeared to be its only realistic hope of survival into next year.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the &#8220;FNL&#8221; deal that also involves NBC, DirecTV will not be sharing broadcasting rights with another network&#8211;the show will air exclusively on the satellite service&#8217;s 101 Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Damages&quot; Earns Two More Seasons at DirecTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"DirecTV, which played a major role in saving the critically-beloved &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; two seasons ago, came to the rescue of another acclaimed series.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/07\/19\/damages-earns-two-more-seasons-at-directv\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Damages&quot; Earns Two More Seasons at DirecTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DirecTV, which played a major role in saving the critically-beloved &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; two seasons ago, came to the rescue of another acclaimed series.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/07\/19\/damages-earns-two-more-seasons-at-directv\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-07-20T04:08:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/view1.picapp.com\/pictures.photo\/image\/8914843\/premiere-universal\/premiere-universal.jpg?size=234&imageId=8914843\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/07\/19\/damages-earns-two-more-seasons-at-directv\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/07\/19\/damages-earns-two-more-seasons-at-directv\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"Damages\\\" Earns Two More Seasons at DirecTV\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-07-20T04:08:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-07-20T04:08:34+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"DirecTV, which played a major role in saving the critically-beloved \\\"Friday Night Lights\\\" two seasons ago, came to the rescue of another acclaimed series.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/07\/19\/damages-earns-two-more-seasons-at-directv\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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