The critically acclaimed NBC football-centric drama “Friday Night Lights” has been renewed for two seasons, with NBC and DirecTV partnering to bring the show to its loyal, and vocal audience, according to media reports.

The renewal means the show will continue through 2011. Each of the two seasons will have 13 episodes, according to the reports. The show will continue to be filmed in Austin.

The show, which had struggled with ratings on NBC was saved through the partnership with El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV. New episodes will be shown on DirecTV’s channel “The 101″ before being moved to NBC.

The partnership began with the third season of the show, an adaptation of H.G. Bissinger’s book of the same title that looks at the lives of members of a high school football team in Texas.