Friday night lights The next series can be restarted.
A new iteration of the football drama has been set at Universal Television with Jason Katims, Pete Berg and Brian Grazer, Deadline has confirmed.
It is believed to be a new story, still set in the world of high school football, with new characters in place of the previous cast, which included the likes of Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Taylor Kitsch and Jesse Plemons.
The project is in its early stages but has been released to the market.
Restart Friday night lightsWhether as a series or as a movie, it has been talked about for a long time since it ended after five seasons.
The series, based on the book by H.G. Bissinger and the 2004 film, is set in the fictional town of Dillon in rural West Texas. That was followed by a high school football team, coached by Eric Taylor of Chandler. Britton played his wife.
The show also starred the likes of Minka Kelly, Adrianne Palicki, Jurnee Smollett, Michael B. Jordan, and Matt Lauria. It is produced by Universal Television, Imagine Television and Film 44.
Originally commissioned by NBC, it premiered in 2006, and ran for two seasons on the network before the company struck a deal with DirecTV, following the 2007 writers' strike, which co-produced three seasons that ran on The 101 Network before airing on NBC. . Puck broke the news.
