The team behind Friday Night Lights returns for a new adaptation of the popular drama. Set up at Peacock, original FNL showrunner and executive producer Jason Katims will guide the new take in the same capacity. Peter Berg, director of the 2004 film based on H.G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, developed the original series and will executive produce.
Additional executive producers include Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer (producer of the original film) and Kristen Zolner. The series is in the development stage and has Universal Television attached to produce.
“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,” reads Peacock’s synopsis.
The original Friday Night Lights series premiered in October 2006 and ran for five seasons. The series starred Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Aimee Teegarden, Taylor Kitsch, and Brad Leland, and earned three Primetime Emmys.