By Peacock has reportedly won the bidding war for the upcoming reboot of “Friday Night Lights” – keeping the series within the NBCUniversal family.
Universal Television produced the acclaimed 2006-2011 series and is set to produce the new take, but the project hadn’t locked down a network or streamer until now.
The new take is set in the wake of a devastating hurricane as a ragtag high school football team and their damaged, interim coach make an unlikely bid for a Texas high school state championship.
They soon become a beacon of light for their town which won’t be the fictional Dillon, Texas town of the original and rather something closer to the state’s Gulf Coast.
The new version sees several key members of the original show’s creative team reunited – series creator and pilot director Peter Berg, showrunner Jason Katims and executive producer Brian Grazer with all three to executive produce and Katims to once again serving as showrunner.
Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Jesse Plemons, Taylor Kitsch, Zach Gilford, Minka Kelly, Gaius Charles, Scott Porter, Aimee Teegarden, Adrianne Palicki and Michael B. Jordan starred in the original which won three Emmys and was a critical and cult favorite.
That series was preceded by Berg directing and co-wroting a 2004 feature film adaptation of the book which starred Billy Bob Thornton, Garrett Hedlund, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez and Lucas Black.
Source: THR
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