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Genre | Soap Opera |
Created by | Callie Khouri |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 5 |
No. of episodes | 97 (list of episodes) |
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Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 43 minutes |
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Picture format | 720p (HDTV) |
Audio format | 5.1 surround sound |
Original release | October 10, 2012 | – present
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Nashville is an American musical drama television series. It was created by Academy Award winner Callie Khouri and produced by R. J. Cutler, Khouri, Dee Johnson, Steve Buchanan, and Connie Britton.
The series chronicles the lives of various fictitious country music singers in Nashville, Tennessee starring Connie Britton as Rayna Jaymes, a legendary country music superstar, whose stardom begins fading, and Hayden Panettiere as rising younger star Juliette Barnes. Britton left the show in season five.
The series premiered on ABC, on October 10, 2012, and had more than 8.93 million viewers. In May 2016, ABC cancelled the show. In June 2016, it was picked up by CMT for a fifth season. On December 1, 2016, it was announced that a preview of episode one would air on December 15, 2016, with the season starting on January 5, 2017, along with a set of new producers, writers, and showrunners. A live aftershow, NashChat, began airing live across social media platforms on Thursday, January 5, and airs immediately after every new episode.
On April 10, 2017, CMT renewed Nashville for a 16-episode sixth season.
The series was created by Callie Khouri, who won an Academy Award for Thelma & Louise. Khouri lived in Nashville from 1978 to 1982. In an interview for The New York Times she said "This is a place that can be mocked and made fun of, and sometimes it deserves it, like any place. But it also is an incredibly beautiful, cosmopolitan city, and I wanted to show that to the world. I want to represent it in a way that everybody who lives here would find completely realistic."Nashville was the first television series in Khouri's career, after working for two decades as a film writer and director creating strong female characters.