The Friday Night Lights reboot in development at Universal Television has landed at NBCUniversal’s streamer, Peacock . Variety reports that the once-popular NBC high school sports drama has gone to Peacock after “a highly competitive situation.” According to the logline, the series will follow a “rag tag high school football team and their damaged, interim coach” who are still reeling after the effects of a horrific hurricane. However, the team and coach still put their all into “an unlikely bid for a Texas High School State Championship,” which becomes a rallying-point for the town. Jason Katims, who served as the showrunner and executive producer on the original series, is back as well as original executive producers Peter Berg and Brian Grazer. Berg, who also directed the original series, is poised to direct the reboot as well. Imagine Entertainment’s Kristen Zolner will executive produce. The show will hail from Universal Television. The series, a TV adaptation of the 2004 film...
