Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose! Peacock wins reboot of ‘Friday Night Lights’
Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose! Peacock wins reboot of ‘Friday Night Lights’
The rebooted series will follow a new team as they make their bid for a Texas state championship.
High school football season may be over on the calendar, but at Peacock a new season is just ramping up. Deadline was the first to report that NBCUniversal’s streaming service has won the rights to a reboot of “Friday Night Lights,” the popular high school football series from the early and mid-2000s that launched the careers of actors like Minka Kelly, Taylor Kitsch, Jesse Plemons, and others.
Key Details:
- Peacock outbid Netflix to land the rights to the new series.
- The show will focus on a new high school football team from Texas, with no current plans to bring back old stars.
- The showrunner, director, and producer from the original “Friday Night Lights” series are set to return.
Deadline reports that Peacock was able to outmaneuver Netflix to land the rights to the new series. Netflix is currently the only on-demand streaming service that is carrying the “Friday Night Lights” TV series.
The series is reportedly set to move on from the Dillon Panthers, the team that was the focus of the first three seasons of the original show. Instead, it will feature a town devastated by a hurricane, whose interim coach-led football team makes a shocking run toward the Texas high school football state championship. There are no reported plans to bring back Kyle Chandler as Coach Eric Taylor or any other characters from the first show.
Universal Television will produce the new series, with original showrunner Jason Katims, director of the “Friday Night Lights” movie Peter Berg, and producer Brian Glazer all set to come back for the reboot. That will likely help the new series have the same overall feel as the original, even if it doesn’t center on any of the same characters.
The 2004 “Friday Night Lights” film was based on the book of the same name by H.G. Bissinger. The show launched two years later, shifting focus to a new, fictional Texas-based team. The series garnered several Emmy nominations, including a win for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Kyle Chandler and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for Katims.
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