“Nashville” Has a New Home (CMT) and a New Creative Team

Since news of the show&#8217;s cancellation broke in May, fans had&#160;championed the series by taking to social media using #BringBackNashville in an effort to save it. Adding fuel to the fire was a burning desire for answers to the possible death of one of its leads, Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere), whose private jet disappeared just short of its Nashville destination in the show&#8217;s fourth season finale, which was also for an agonizing couple of weeks was the end of everything.While fans breathed a collective sigh of relief with news of the show&#8217;s return, exactly what Season 5 of &#8220;Nashville&#8221; will look like remains to be seen, because there will be a whole new team behind the scenes. A month before the show&#8217;s ABC cancelation &#8220;thirtysomething&#8221; and &#8220;My So-Called Life&#8221; veterans Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick were hired to take over and the dynamic duo were already in the process of assembling a new writing team, too.&#8220;Many of the writers from &#8216;thirtysomething&#8217; were assembled,&#8221; a source close to the show tells MediaVillage exclusively. &#8220;They all went to Nashville where T. Bone Burnett showed them all the familiar places in the city. They also met the actors and saw all the sets. ABC has a close affiliation with [Herskovitz and Zwick], so there&#8217;s a history.&#8220;Upon their return two or three meetings took place to talk about stories and about making it deeper,&#8221; the source added. &#8220;But they cancelled it. It was a popular show, so why it was cancelled?&#8221;Residual key storylines like Juliette&#8217;s fate and young Maddie Conrad reuniting with her family following her emancipation will no doubt be resolved, but beyond that the &#8220;Nashville&#8221; of the past may well be just that. With the new writing staff switching the show&#8217;s direction, exactly what lies ahead for viewers is anyone&#8217;s guess. &#160;#fortysomething?The opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillage.com/MyersBizNet management or associated bloggers.&#160;

“Nashville” Has a New Home (CMT) and a New Creative Team

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