'Friday Night Lights' Stars Connie Britton & Jesse Plemons Reunite For Robert De Niro's 'Zero Day'

Former Friday Night Lights co-stars Connie Britton and Jesse Plemons are teaming up again for a new Netflix series, Zero Day.

Robert De Niro will star in and executive produce the show, which also marks his very first television series!

The series is an upcoming six-episode conspiracy thriller also starring Lizzy Caplan and Joan Allen.

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In Friday Night Lights, Connie played the wife of the show’s main character, high school football coach Eric Taylor. Jesse portrayed Landry Clarke, a nerdy freshman.

Friday Night Lights was about a varsity high school football team and aired from 2006 through 2011. It was based on the book of the same name.

Zero Day follows Robert De Niro as George Mullen, a massively popular, but complicated, former American President who is pulled from retirement to head a commission tasked with investigating a devastating global cyber-attack.

Connie will play a savvy, intelligent political operative who was Mullen’s former Chief of Staff, while Jesse will be a former Mullen “body man” seeking a return to the national stage alongside Mullen.

Robert De Niro also has a new comedy with Sebastian Maniscalco coming out and the trailer was recently released..