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NBC has ordered a script for a western from Friday Night Lights' Pete Berg and Liz Heldens.our editor recommends'Friday Night Lights' Finale: Fans Will Finally Get Their Closure (TV Review)HBO Picks Up Boxing Docuseries from Peter Berg While details are being kept under wraps, it is billed as a western story told from a female point of view. The project, which hails from Universal Media Studios and Berg's Film 44, counts Berg (Wonderland) andSarah Aubrey (Friday Night Lights, Trauma) as executive producers. Heldens (Love Bites, Mercy) is attached to write and EP. The project joins a cadre of small screen western efforts, including AMC's upcoming series Hell On Wheels, set during the building of the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1860s, and A&E pilot Longmire, about a widowed sheriff in Absaroka County, Wyoming. More recently, TNT ordered Gateway, while ABC and CBS nabbedDavid Zabel's Gunslinger and James Mangold's Ralph Lamb, respectively. Heldens is repped by ICM; Berg and Aubrey are repped by WME. Email: Lacey.Rose@THR.com; Twitter: @LaceyVRose Related Topics NBC Friday Night Lights TV Development