Pete Berg, Liz Heldens Sell Western to NBC

NBC has purchased a script for any western from Friday Evening Lights' Pete Berg and Liz Heldens.our editor recommends'Friday Evening Lights' Finale: Fans Will Ultimately Obtain Closure (TV Review)Cinemax Accumulates Boxing Docuseries from Peter Berg While particulars are now being stored under systems, it's charged like a western story told from the female perspective. The project, which originates from Universal Media Galleries and Berg's Film 44, counts Berg (Wonderland) andSarah Aubrey (Friday Evening Lights, Trauma) as executive producers. Heldens (Love Bites, Whim) is mounted on write and Air. The project joins a cadre of small screen western efforts, including AMC's approaching series Hell On Wheels, set throughout your building from the Union Off-shore Railroad within the 1860s, along with a&E pilot Longmire, in regards to a widowed sheriff in Absaroka County, Wyoming. More lately, TNT purchased Gateway, while ABC and CBS nabbedDavid Zabel's Gunslinger and James Mangold's Rob Lamb, correspondingly. Heldens is repped by ICM Berg and Aubrey are repped by WME. Email: Lacey.Rose@THR.com Twitter: @LaceyVRose Related Subjects NBC Friday Evening Lights