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Clear eyes full hearts cant lose: Friday Night Lights is getting a reboot
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:01 pm
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:01 pm
Same showrunner, but if there's no Coach Taylors, Mrs. Taylor, and Tim Riggins, is it really Friday Night Lights?
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"We want to do it with a whole new cast, but obviously there’ll be football in it," teased Berg, who is executive-producing the project alongside Brian Grazer and Kristen Zolner. "But the original show was done a long time ago. There were no cell phones. No social media. It was a very different world, and yet the same values still exist, and the same family dynamics exist."
He continued: "Football’s only grown in its relevance in communities all over the country. So the core themes of Friday Night Lights—that were revealed by Buzz Bissinger when he wrote the book — are very much present. There’s just so many new elements, so we want to look at that. And if certain cast members come back, have appearances, that’s great. But if Friday Night Lights works, it’ll be because it works as a reinvention."
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Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:33 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Give this man his NIL targets and let him eat.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:35 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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Zolner. "But the original show was done a long time ago. There were no cell phones. No social media. It was a very different world
Today I learned the original aired in the time slot right after the first few seasons Beverly Hills, 90210.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:38 pm to Zap Rowsdower
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No social media
There's literally a storyline in the first season about slut shaming Lyla on the internet. It was a website and not snapchat but still.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 5:42 pm to saintsfan22
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There's literally a storyline in the first season about slut shaming Lyla on the internet. It was a website and not snapchat but still.
Exactly
The characters may not have used them but Facebook and MySpace were both rolling with millions of users before the first episode aired and by the time season one ended the iPhone had launched or was just about to.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:19 pm to Zap Rowsdower
No Buddy Garrity no care
Posted on 8/7/25 at 8:10 pm to Zap Rowsdower
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Give this man his NIL targets and let him eat.
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 8:22 pm
Posted on 8/7/25 at 8:19 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Voodoo and Smash finna’ eat
Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:17 pm to iwyLSUiwy
It will be hard sell with no coach Taylor but this is the show runner that flipped over almost a whole group of main characters and made me care about the new ones. That’s not easy to do.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 11:39 pm to arktiger28
It really is amazing how they switched from the Dillion characters to the East Dillion characters and the show never skipped a beat.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:18 am to iwyLSUiwy
They are going to screw it up, gggrrr.
The Taylors were FNLs!!!
The Taylors were FNLs!!!
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:31 am to iwyLSUiwy
I just dont see how this show works without all of us wanting to just go watch the original again instead. But a friday night lights for a new generation isnt the worst thing I guess, although we'll all end up recommending they just go watch the original
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:44 am to iwyLSUiwy
The show ended nearly 15 years ago. High School Freshman weren't even alive during the original run. I promise it will find an audience with a new generation.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:56 am to arktiger28
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but this is the show runner that flipped over almost a whole group of main characters and made me care about the new ones.
True. Think I've watched FNL 3 times and the East Dillon stuff gets better and better each time I watch.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 11:08 am to iwyLSUiwy
I'm not saying it would be good
But just let Sheridan do it and they would print money
But just let Sheridan do it and they would print money
Posted on 8/8/25 at 11:28 am to Pettifogger
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But just let Sheridan do it and they would print money
No thanks. Just let him stay on Paramount+ writing the same story for 10 different shows. Not saying this is going to be good either, and it certainly didn't need a reboot, but at least the creator has shown he can tell a good high school football story and not make it a soap opera. Twice now.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 12:06 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Old news. But no new news about when.
Posted on 8/9/25 at 3:04 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Are we really going to pretend the original wasn’t CW type soap opera
Posted on 8/9/25 at 4:23 pm to Pettifogger
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Are we really going to pretend the original wasn’t CW type soap opera
Doesn't matter who you think it is. It's one of best tv shows ever
Posted on 8/9/25 at 5:28 pm to BugaNation86
Tim Riggins was one of my favorite characters in the history of TV.
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