EXCLUSIVE: Peacock has made it into the top zone with clear eyes and a full coronary heart after scoring the Friday Night Lights reboot collection.
Deadline understands that the NBCU streamer beat out Netflix to land a brand new adaptation of the highschool soccer collection in a aggressive battle that has performed out over the previous couple of days.
Universal Television will produce the collection, which comes from Jason Katims, who was the unique showrunner, authentic director Peter Berg and producer Brian Grazer. The trio will exec produce alongside Kristen Zolner for Imagine Entertainment.
The new collection, which is now in improvement at Peacock, will likely be set following a devastating hurricane, when a rag tag highschool soccer group and their broken, interim coach make an unlikely bid for a Texas High School State Championship and turn into a beacon of sunshine for his or her city.
Friday Night Lights started life as a ebook – Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger – earlier than being became a characteristic movie in 2004, directed by Peter Berg. The movie starred the likes of Billy Bob Thornton, Garrett Hedlund, Jay Hernandez, Tim McGraw, Lucas Black, Derek Luke and Amber Heard.
Connie Britton additionally starred within the movie after which went on to star within the tv collection adaptation, which premiered on NBC in 2006 and was set within the fictional city of Dillon in rural West Texas. Britton performed Tami Taylor, who was married to Coach Taylor, performed by Kyle Chandler.
Minka Kelly, Adrianne Palicki, Jurnee Smollett, Michael B. Jordan, Matt Lauria, Aimee Teegarden, Scott Porter, Jesse Plemons, Taylor Kitsch, Gauis Charles and Derek Phillips additionally starred within the collection.
It was initially commissioned by NBC, premiering in 2006, and ran for 2 seasons on the community earlier than the corporate struck a cope with DirecTV, after the 2007 writers strike, which co-produced three seasons that ran on The 101 Network earlier than airing on NBC.
Friday Night Lights aired for 76 episodes throughout 5 seasons by way of 2011. It was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series on the Emmys in 2011, shedding out to Mad Men, however Kyle Chandler gained Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Jason Katims gained for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.
