Overview

• The reboot will follow a Texas high school football team and their interim coach as they strive for a state championship after a devastating hurricane.
• Original series creators Jason Katims, Peter Berg, and Brian Grazer will return to lead the project, with Universal Television producing.
• The series will stream exclusively on Peacock, which won the rights after a competitive bidding war with platforms like Netflix.
• The new story will not revisit the fictional town of Dillon, Texas, but will instead explore a new setting and characters in the Lone Star State.
• The original 'Friday Night Lights' series, which aired from 2006 to 2011, was critically acclaimed and launched the careers of several notable actors, including Michael B. Jordan and Jesse Plemons.