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Netflix Taps ‘Friday Night Lights’ Director Peter Berg for NFL Gameday Openers, the First Narrated by Kyle Chandler

Peter Berg is directing the show opens for all four of Netflix’s NFL gameday livestreams this season — and for the first one, debuting Thursday, he drafted Kyle Chandler, star of the “Friday Night Lights” TV series, for an assist on the play. Berg directed the 2004 movie “Friday Night Lights,” about a high school […]

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Netflix Taps ‘Friday Night Lights’ Director Peter Berg for NFL Gameday Openers, the First Narrated by Kyle Chandler
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