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.