A “Friday Night Lights” reboot, which has been discussed ever since the show concluded in 2011, is reportedly in the works and will reunite some of the original team.
Universal Television is developing the series, which is currently searching for a studio to call home, sources confirmed to Variety. Newsletter Puck was the first to report the story.
Original showrunner Jason Katims will reportedly return in the same role, with Brian Grazer returning as one of the executive producers.
Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton’s Eric and Tami Taylor don’t appear to be part of the reboot, which will spotlight a new crop of characters. It also doesn’t seem to include Gaius Charles’ Brian “Smash” Williams nor Jesse Plemons’ Landry Clarke.
While high school football will once again serve as the backdrop, it’s unclear whether the reboot will return to the fictional town of Dillion, Texas.
The 2004 “Friday Night Lights” movie, also adapted from H.G. Bissinger’s 1990 non-fiction book, was set in real life Odessa, Texas.
News of the reboot comes exactly two months after original star Britton weighed in on the then-rumored project on the Emmys red carpet.
“I heard that they’re making another ‘Friday Night Lights,’ which I find bizarre,” she told the outlet in September, five years after saying people need to “let go” of their hopes of a reboot.
Britton starred in both Peter Berg’s “Friday Night Lights” movie — alongside Billy Bob Thornton, Jay Hernandez, Tim McGraw, and Amber Heard — as well as the Berg-created show, which debuted two years later on NBC and ran for five seasons.
The series netted 12 Emmy nominations and three wins, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Kyle Chandler and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.
