Scott Porter Ready to Recreate Friday Night Lights

You don't have to tell Scott porter, display lights-like Friday Night Lights DVD drama won an emmy, Peabody and motivate a catchphrase (" clear eyes, and the whole heart, can't lose! ")-not come to me often. He has already know.

"It was a lightning-in-the-bottle moment of magic with Friday Night Lights Seasons 1-5 DVD and I know that I can never do that again. So to do something starkly different, but still try and capture that same type of magic and create and own a character was great," Porter says. "I wanted a show to be able to call my own again."

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Porter's second chance comes courtesy of Hart of Dixie, The CW's new drama following a city slicker doctor, Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson), whose career forces her to move to the South where she encounters alligators, Southern belles and a charming lawyer named George, played by Porter. "George is a leading man and that's a first for me," Porter says. "I love every bit of George. He's just such a solid everyman and I think guys are going to want to be friends with him and girls are going to want to date him. He's a leader and he's a bit of a town hero."

Sure, George and Zoe make sense on paper but there's one snag: George is engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Lemon (Jaime King). The love triangle, and the small-town feel, of the series make Hart of Dixie reminiscent of the early WB when family dramas like 7th Heaven, Everwood and Gilmore Girls hadn't yet been replaced by series centered on vampires, witches and demon hunters. And just like when Dawson's Creek and Felicity fans agonized over whether to pick Dawson or Pacey, or Ben or Noel, respectively, Porter says it won't be so easy picking who should end up with whom.