'Friday Evening Lights' team takes up NBC Western

NBC and Universal Media Galleries are reassembling a team from "Friday Evening Lights" to tackle another genre: the Western."Lights" executive producers Peter Berg and Sarah Aubrey are saddling track of Liz Heldens, a co-executive producer about the lately upon the market football series, who'll write the script for which has been referred to like a Western from the female perspective. NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt is stated to become interested in attempting to revive the genre when the right project all comes together. Though nobody has put a Western in primetime since HBO's "Deadwood," AMC is placed to try it out next using its approaching drama "Hell on Wheels." NBC attempted this past year with Peter Horton-created pilot "Renovation," however it did not make air.Berg has already been back on NBC this fall as Air of "Prime Suspect." Additionally, he'll oversee approaching Cinemax series "On Freddie Roach."Heldens managed to move on from "Lights" with other NBC series that did not last as lengthy, including executive producer responsibilities on "Whim," which she produced, and co-executive producer on "Love Bites." She signed a 2-year overall cope with UMS last year. Before that they was under a general deal at twentieth century Fox TV, where she done the WB series "Pepper Dennis" and Fox's "North Shoreline." Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com