Friday Night Lights Reboot, From Original Series EPs, Officially In Development At Peacock

Clear eyes, full hearts, must reboot...?

A new iteration of Friday Night Lights, from executive producers Jason Katims, Peter Berg and Brian Grazer, is officially in development at Peacock, TVLine has learned. The news comes roughly one month after Puck News first reported that potential reboot had received bids from multiple streamers, including Peacock, Netflix and Amazon.

The new Friday Night Lights is not a revival. Though sources previously told TVLine that the series will feature the Dillon Panthers, the focus will shift to a whole new set of characters. The official logline reads as follows:

Following a devastating hurricane, a rag tag high school football team and their damaged, interim coach make an unlikely bid for a Texas High School State Championship becoming a beacon of light for their town. 

The H. G. Bissinger novel Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream has been adapted several times since it was originally published in 1990. It first served as the basis for NBC's short-lived 1993 drama Against the Grain, which starred John Terry, Donna Bullock, Ben Affleck, Vanessa Lee Evigan and Stephen Tobolowsky. Eleven years later, a feature film adaptation led by Billy Bob Thornton was released in theaters. Two years after that came the beloved NBC-turned-DirecTV drama starring Kyle Chandler (who earned an Emmy for his turn as Coach Eric Taylor), Connie Britton, Zach Gilford, Minka Kelly, Adrianne Palicki, Taylor Kitsch, Jesse Plemons, Scott Porter, Aimee Teegarden, Michael B. Jordan, Jurnee Smollett and Matt Lauria, among others.

All five seasons are currently streaming on Netflix.

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