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Friday Night Lights , one of the most influential net drama of the 2000s , has a reboot series currently in development at Peacock .
Friday Night Lights , one of the most underrated TV serial publication of the 2000s , is now in growth at Peacock for a rebooted serial . The original series followed a high schooling football game squad in the fictional township of Dillon , Texas , coached byKyle Chander ’s Eric Taylor . The serial publication also starredConnie Britton , Taylor Kitsch , Minka Kelly , Zach Gilford , Jesse Plemons , Michael B. Jordan , andJurnee Smollett , among others . The show received 14 Emmy nominations throughout its run , with Chandler pull ahead the award for best actor in a drama in 2011 and showrunnerJason Katimswinning good writing for a drama that same year . The newFriday Night Lightswill be set following a devastating hurricane when a rag - tag high-pitched school day football game squad and their damaged interim coach make an improbable bid for a Texas High School State Championship and become a beacon of swooning fortheir town .
Friday Night Lightswas in the beginning inspired by a leger , Friday Night Lights : A Town , A Team and a DreambyH.G. Bissinger – before being wrench into a feature film in 2004 that was directed byPeter Berg . The film starred the likes ofBilly Bob Thornton , Garrett Hedlund , Jay Hernandez , Tim McGraw , Lucas Black , Derek Luke , andAmber Heard . Britton also star in the film and went on to asterisk in the television series adaptation , which premiere on NBC in 2006 and was place in the fictional townspeople of Dillon in rural West Texas .
Britton played Tami Taylor , who was marital to Coach Taylor , played byKyle Chandler . The television serial publication found the careers ofMinka Kelly , Adrianne Palicki , Jurnee Smollett , Michael B. Jordan , Matt Lauria , Aimee Teegarden , Scott Porter , Jesse Plemons , Taylor Kitsch , Gauis Charles , Zach Gilford , andDerek Phillips . Universal Television will produce the series , which come fromJason Katims , who was the original showrunner , original directorPeter Berg , and producerBrian Grazer . The trio will administrator farm alongsideKristen Zolnerfor Imagine Entertainment .
NBC’sFriday Night Lightswas one of the best examples of societal drama on net telly in the 2000s . It present the socioeconomic makeup of a first team football game township and its focus on the sportswoman . The reboot will pour onPeacock . There is no news yet if any of the original roll will return .
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