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

Thanks to CMT new life has been injected into ABC’s recently cancelled country themed drama “Nashville.” It will return as a showcase series on its new network at a time to be determined, with each episode debuting on Hulu the day after its CMT premiere.

Since news of the show’s cancellation broke in May, fans had 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’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’s return, exactly what Season 5 of “Nashville” will look like remains to be seen, because there will be a whole new team behind the scenes. A month before the show’s ABC cancelation “thirtysomething” and “My So-Called Life” 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.

 

Steve Gidlow

Steve Gidlow, a long-time columnist for MediaVillage ("Behind the Scenes in Hollywood"), has written about television and pop culture since 1994, beginning in Australia.  Since moving to Hollywood in 1997, Steve has focused on celebrity interv… read more