The format was used in Australia in the form of Friday Night Live from Series 5 until Series 8.

They are also the naming-rights sponsor of NRL Friday Night Football.

Some examples of the screwball comedy are: It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), and more recently What's Up, Doc?

Many non-disco artists recorded disco songs at the height of disco's popularity, and films such as Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It's Friday contributed to disco's rise in mainstream popularity.

Other notable film and television figures include Sarah Wayne Callies ( Prison Break ), Mindy Kaling ( The Office ), Emmy Award winner Michael Moriarty, Andrew Shue of Melrose Place, Aisha Tyler of Friends and 24, Dan Rush the director of Everything Must Go and Connie Britton of Spin City, The West Wing, and Friday Night Lights.

Among the many remakes or " reimaginings " of other popular horror films and franchises are films such as Friday the 13th ( 2009 ), A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 2010 ), Children of the Corn ( 2009 )., Prom Night ( 2008 ), My Bloody Valentine ( 2009 ) and The Wolfman ( 2010 ).

Examples of this genre include Psycho, Black Christmas, Halloween, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Prom Night, Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Hatchet, Friday the 13th, Child's Play, Candyman, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

He also performed a duet with another British pop star, Joss Stone, a week earlier on the United Kingdom chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.

Later that year, the two met up backstage at the New York studios of the TV show Friday Night Videos.

Shortly after the film was released, Cleese and Palin engaged in what would become a notorious debate on the BBC2 discussion programme Friday Night, Saturday Morning, in which Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the Bishop of Southwark, put the case against the film.

The " Pythonesque " film explored the events surrounding the 1979 television debate on talk show Friday Night, Saturday Morning between John Cleese and Michael Palin and Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the then Bishop of Southwark.

This was a parody of the infamous Friday Night, Saturday Morning programme, broadcast a week previously.

Shortly after TBS began Night Tracks, NBC launched its music video program called Friday Night Videos which was considered network television's answer to MTV.

Later renamed simply Friday Night, the program ran from 1983 to sometime in the late 80s.

These successes led to NBC launching serials, including Heroes and Friday Night Lights.

" The last few years I had been complaining about that fact that there weren ’ t any females speaking to women above the age of 30, so I started thinking about how I was writing my songs and came up with the idea for “ Friday Night Girls " ... I wanted to write a three minute song with every Sex and the City episode that had ever existed, so I did.

Slasher films of the 1970s and 80s such as John Carpenter's Halloween ( 1978 ), Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th ( 1980 ), and Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) " owe much to the original Night of the Living Dead ", according to author Barry Keith Grant.

The critic Daniel Mendelsohn wrote a critique of Mad Men in which he also claimed this last decade was a golden age for episodic television, citing Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, and the network series Friday Night Lights as especially deserving of critical and popular attention.

In July 2010 Jones appeared on the penultimate episode of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross and performed " Burning Hell ".

* Santiago, a character on Friday Night Lights

Other examples of this included network television shows such as Friday Night Videos and MTV for its first few years in existence.

Wilson also hosted two editions of the BBC chat show Friday Night, Saturday Morning.

Imagine has produced several films including Friday Night Lights, 8 Mile, and Inside Deep Throat, and the television series 24, Felicity and Arrested Development.

A similar program, the Friday Night Opry, airs live on Friday nights.

Each Friday one manager is chosen by lot to stay late and load the equipment on a truck.

Houghton said 6 p.m. Friday had been set for a canvass of all 480 homes in the subdivision, which is located northeast of Dequindre and 14 Mile Road East.

The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

`` Thanks '', Owen said, `` but Friday is a long way off and anything can happen ''.

The State Press is a daily paper published on Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, and weekly during the summer sessions.

* Earliest day on which Store Bededag or General Prayer Day can fall, while May 13 is the latest ; observed on the 4th Friday after Easter day.

National Schools Tree Day is held on the last Friday of July for schools and National Tree Day the last Sunday in July throughout Australia.

The national holiday is celebrated every year on the last Friday in April ; in Nebraska, it is a civic holiday.

* Earliest day on which Fast and Prayer Day can fall, while April 15 is the latest ; celebrated on the second Friday in April ( Liberia )

Various markets are held in the Market Hall, for example: Tuesdays – retail market, which also stretches into the town hall car park and temporarily the Cattle Market, while Brewery Yard car park is regenerated ; Wednesday – flea market ; 4th Thursday of the month a farmers ' market ; Friday – retail market ; Saturday – retail market ( also in the town hall car park ); 3rd Sunday of the month – antique fair ; 2nd Saturday – craft fair.

* Earliest day on which National Arbor Day can fall, while April 30 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Friday in April.

A normal activity for high schools in the US is attending Friday night football games in Autumn, while Sunday afternoons are reserved for the professional game, particularly the National Football League, and Saturdays are traditionally used for college football.

From then on retail trade is only restricted on public holidays ( New Years Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Day of Prayer, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day ) and on Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ( on New Year's Eve from 3 pm only ).

The Orioles wear their black alternate jerseys for Friday night games with the alternate " O's " cap, whether at home or on the road ; the cartoon bird batting helmet is still used with this uniform ( see description on home and road design below ).

In the Coptic Orthodox Church chapter three is chanted on the twelfth hour of the Good Friday service, that commemorates the burial of Jesus.

* The Watauga Democrat is published on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday of each week,

Other programming produced solely by the BBC News channel includes the BBC News at Five with Huw Edwards ( including Film 24 with Mark Kermode at 17: 45 on Fridays, Sportsday ( at 18: 45, except on Fridays and Saturdays when it is from 18: 30, plus 22: 30 every weekday ) and Newswatch ( Friday 20: 45, Saturday 07: 45 ).

With the official cessation of violence by some of the major paramilitary organisations and the creation of the power-sharing executive at Stormont in Belfast under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the Saville Inquiry's re-examination of the events of that day is widely hoped to provide a thorough account of the events of Bloody Sunday.

The week cycle is shared by various calendar systems ( although the significance of special days such as Friday, Saturday, and Sunday varies ).

Critical Mass is an event typically held on the last Friday of every month in cities around the world where bicyclists take to the streets en masse.

There is now only a limited Monday – Friday RTC bus service to Reno which is still served by both Greyhound and Amtrak.

* Earliest day on which Farmer's Day can fall, while December 7 is the latest ; celebrated on the first Friday in December.