A few months back I mentioned that the future of NFL Films was grim as the demand for the costly produced program slowly dwindled. Well it appears for the time being that the Steve Sabol run company is till in business and they're creating three new shows for the NFL Network. Via the Houston Chron....

After a year in which the NFL Network seemingly struggled to find a role for NFL Films, the company is developing three new series that will air on Thursday nights this fall.

Starting 11 will be a football-sized weekly top-10 show, listing 11 points of interest for the coming week, such as strangest play, biggest blooper or greatest catch. It will be followed by Sounds of the Game, which will match the best sideline sound of the week with excerpts from players miked during games and classic sound bites from the NFL Films library.

"What we lack in coherence, we will make up in energy and innovation," Sabol said. "It's going to be like building an airplane in flight. We have footage, and we will use it to make an observation about the week in the NFL."

America's Game, which accounts for the latest Emmys in the company collection, returns Sept. 3 with an episode on the 2007 New York Giants featuring Tom Coughlin, Michael Strahan and Eli Manning, followed by a five-episode miniseries titled Missing Rings, which gives America's Game treatment to five teams from franchises that have never won a Super Bowl.