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There are sports dramas, and then there’s Friday Night Lights.

While All American and other series have explored the heightened drama that unfolds on the gridiron and in the locker room, no show in modern history has consistently done so with as much heart as Fnl.

ESPN columnist Bill Simmons once hailed it as “the greatest sports-related show ever made.” Many critics would add that the contest is not a particularly close one.

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Now, Variety is reporting that Universal is developing a reboot of the beloved series, which ran from 2006-2011.

Surely some fans are excited about the prospect of returning to the world of Texas high school football.

But the prevailing mood at the moment is one of utter confusion.

And the question on the minds of many Fnl devotees is simply: Why?

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Network execs often can’t help...

Clear eyes, full hearts, must reboot…?

A new iteration of Friday Night Lights, from executive producers Jason Katims, Peter Berg and Brian Grazer, is in the works at Universal Television. According to Puck News, there are already multiple bids for the reboot — reportedly from Peacock, Netflix and Amazon.

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Exclusive: Country music star Hardy is teaming up with Grammy-nominated songwriter Ben Johnson and writer/producer Dave Alan Johnson to executive produce the new docuseries Music Row, currently in production in Nashville.

The indie project follows successful songwriters and artists in country music today like Cody Johnson, Ashley Cooke, Hunter Phelps and Ashley Gorley. Set inside the world of the genre and modern Nashville, Music Row will offer audiences a view into how the hits are made and the inner workings behind the genre’s biggest hits.

Through Exceleration Studio, Susana Zepeda produces the unscripted series with showrunner Dave Alan Johnson. On behalf of the Studio, CEO Steve McBeth and Zepeda are handling sales for the series.

“This show celebrates those who walk into a room with nothing and walk out with a piece of art, a song, that can move people around the world for generations,” said Dave Alan Johnson.

Vinegar Syndrome’s 2023 Black Friday Pre-Order is now Live, and the sale is running from today (September 22) all the way through 11:59 Pm Edt on Sunday, September 24.

In addition to the sales and discounted pre-orders, several brand new titles have been put up for grabs today, including The Prophecy 3-film trilogy on 4K Ultra HD!

Here’s everything that was announced today…

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Exclusive: The Europe-based Pop Up Film Residency Visegrad mentorship program has unveiled the filmmakers and mentors who will participate in its 2023 edition.

The program, which is among several feature development initiatives spearheaded by former TorinoFilmLab artistic director Matthieu Darras, consists of three-week residencies focused on mentoring filmmakers through the development of a feature project. Darras works together with Polish producers Iza Igel and Marta Lewandowska. This year the residency will be mounted in Warsaw and Wroclaw, Poland, from July 4 — 25.

Mentors for the upcoming edition include Polish director Anna Jadowska, Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Polish director Aleksandra Terpinska, Hungarian—Canadian writer/director Anita Doron, Script consultants Michaela Sabo and Aleksandra Swierk, and Lithuanian producer Marija Razgute.

Five feature directors will join the program, including Polish filmmaker Katarzyna Trzaska, whose last feature, Nauka Latania, screened at the Warsaw Film Festival.

Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Network has renewed “Art in Bloom with Helen Dealtry” and “Restored,” and it has ordered three new cooking and renovation series while also revealing its August slate of premiere dates.

Premiering this fall are new shows “Big Sky Kitchen with Eduardo Garcia” (working title), “La Pitchoune: Cooking in France” and “Weekend Makeover” with DIY expert Jenni Yolo. “Art in Bloom” has been picked up for a third season and “Restored” for a seventh season, both set to premiere in the coming months.

“Big Sky Kitchen with Eduardo Garcia” centers on the Montana-based chef as he invites viewers into his kitchen, where he prepares meals drawn from his Latin and Jewish heritage, using fresh, locally-sourced ingredients. Magnolia has orderes six half-hour episodes of the series from Linguine Prods.

In this “Weekend Makeover,” DIY expert Jenni Yolo refreshes a space in the home of a family member,...

Back before he became the hunky A-lister we all now know him as, Ben Affleck was playing the son of a small-town football coach on a short-lived television show, working alongside Blake Lively's sister. Wait...what? Yes, you heard that right. Affleck may have had an on-screen romance with Blake in their 2010 film The Town, but nearly 20 years before that, he played Robyn Lively's brother on the 1993 TV series Against the Grain. In fact, Blake's older sister took to Instagram to share the hilarious evidence. Sharing a photo with hand-drawn arrows to point out Affleck and herself, Robyn explained: "Before #BenAffleck was hookin up with my cracked out sis @blakelively in #thetown he...

While it's true that Ben Affleck is no stranger to mockery from the press, this time even I feel bad for the actor, because his past has come back to haunt him ... again. Now let's all go back to 1994, where a young actor by the name of Ben Affleck had scored a few roles (uncredited and otherwise) in teen flicks like School Ties and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. But it wasn't until he took on the role of the school bully O'Bannion in Richard Linklater's love letter to the '70s, Dazed and Confused, that his career was poised to take off. Unfortunately, there were some lean times after Dazed, and other than a few episodes on the football drama Against the Grain on NBC, the offers weren't exactly rolling in (and a guy's got to eat, right?). Well, thanks to the wonders of the Internet, we now get...