It’s Texas forever – again.

Universal TV is in early development on a new version of Friday Night Lightsits critically acclaimed drama revolving around a Texas high school football team. The original series ran for five seasons, from 2006-11, on NBC and DirecTV’s 101 Network.

Two of the original show’s executive producers — showrunner Jason Katims and Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment — are involved in the new version. Sources say the reboot would focus on new characters rather than returning to the Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton-led cast of the original.

Universal TV declined comment.

Friday Night Lights is inspired by a 1990 nonfiction book by HG “Buzz” Bissinger about the football team at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas. Pete Berg directed and co-wrote a feature film adaptation of the book in 2004 and created and produced the show. Set in the fictional town of Dillon, Texas, the series follows the lives of coach Eric Taylor (Chandler) and the players of the Dillon Panthers football team, along with Coach Taylor’s family (Britton played Tami Taylor, Eric’s wife, and Aimee Teegarden played their daughter Julie ) and other students.

The show never became a hit, but it had a cult following and widespread critical acclaim for most of its run. FNL won three Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama for Chandler and Outstanding Writing for a Drama (Katim’s) in its final season. The series also helped launch the careers of several members of its younger cast, including Jesse Plemons, Taylor Kitsch, Zach Gilford, Minka Kelly, Gaius Charles, Adrianne Palicki, and Michael B. Jordan.

Katims and Grazer are producing the new version along with Kristen Zolner of Imagine.

Puck first reported the news.