‘Friday Night Lights’ Reboot Lands At Peacock
Exclusive: Peacock has made it into the end zone with clear eyes and a full heart after scoring the Friday Night Lights reboot series.
Deadline understands that the NBCU streamer beat out Netflix to land a new adaptation of the high school football series in a competitive battle that has played out over the last few days.
Universal Television will produce the series, which comes from Jason Katims, who was the original showrunner, original director Peter Berg and producer Brian Grazer. The trio will exec produce alongside Kristen Zolner for Imagine Entertainment.
The new series, which is now in development at Peacock, will be set following a devastating hurricane, when a rag tag high school football team and their damaged, interim coach make an unlikely bid for a Texas High School State Championship and become a beacon of light for their town.
Friday Night Lights began life as a book – Friday Night Lights: A Town,...
Deadline understands that the NBCU streamer beat out Netflix to land a new adaptation of the high school football series in a competitive battle that has played out over the last few days.
Universal Television will produce the series, which comes from Jason Katims, who was the original showrunner, original director Peter Berg and producer Brian Grazer. The trio will exec produce alongside Kristen Zolner for Imagine Entertainment.
The new series, which is now in development at Peacock, will be set following a devastating hurricane, when a rag tag high school football team and their damaged, interim coach make an unlikely bid for a Texas High School State Championship and become a beacon of light for their town.
Friday Night Lights began life as a book – Friday Night Lights: A Town,...
- 12/11/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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