‘Friday Night Lights’ reboot finally in the works

A “Friday Night Lights” reboot, which has been discussed ever since the amusement concluded successful 2011, is reportedly successful the works and volition reunite immoderate of the archetypal team.

Universal Television is processing the series, which is presently searching for a workplace to telephone home, sources confirmed to Variety. Newsletter Puck was the archetypal to study the story.

Original showrunner Jason Katims volition reportedly instrumentality successful the aforesaid role, with Brian Grazer returning arsenic 1 of the enforcement producers.

Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton’s Eric and Tami Taylor don’t look to beryllium portion of the reboot, which volition spotlight a caller harvest of characters. It besides doesn’t look to see Gaius Charles’ Brian “Smash” Williams nor Jesse Plemons’ Landry Clarke.

While precocious schoolhouse shot volition erstwhile again service arsenic the backdrop, it’s unclear whether the reboot volition instrumentality to the fictional municipality of Dillion, Texas.

The 2004 “Friday Night Lights” movie, besides adapted from H.G. Bissinger’s 1990 non-fiction book, was acceptable successful existent beingness Odessa, Texas.

News of the reboot comes precisely 2 months aft archetypal prima Britton weighed successful connected the then-rumored task connected the Emmys reddish carpet.

“I heard that they’re making different ‘Friday Night Lights,’ which I find bizarre,” she told the outlet successful September, five years aft saying radical request to “let go” of their hopes of a reboot.

Britton starred successful some Peter Berg’s “Friday Night Lights” movie — alongside Billy Bob Thornton, Jay Hernandez, Tim McGraw, and Amber Heard — arsenic good arsenic the Berg-created show, which debuted 2 years aboriginal connected NBC and ran for 5 seasons.

The bid netted 12 Emmy nominations and 3 wins, including Outstanding Lead Actor successful a Drama Series for Kyle Chandler and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.