Tonight, after five seasons of consistently low ratings, the sun finally sets on Friday Night Lights, the critically-acclaimed but little-seen series about a struggling Texas town and its beloved high-school football team. Given more than enough time to find an audience, the show, based on the Buzz Bissinger book of the same name, which also yielded a critically-acclaimed but little-seen movie, failed to latch on with anyone outside its small but vociferous cadre of true believers.
Alas, it seems that FNL was only mostly dead. TVLine reports that Peter Berg, series creator and director of the film adaptation, is currently shopping a new FNL movie that would piggyback on the events of the series finale. Could a movie based on a failed TV series, which itself was based on a failed film, really get the greenlight in today's increasingly bottom-line-driven Hollywood? Stranger things have happened.
Source: TVLine