‘Nashville’ Joins the Ranks of Un-Canceled Shows

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Nash-heads, your prayers have been answered! CMT has officially picked up Season 5 of ABC’s Nashville. The country music series came to a sudden and devastating conclusion at the end of May, but there has been speculation that CMT was interested in a revival. Now those plans have come to fruition with 22 new episodes, and a Hulu deal to stream the show days after air.

What should have been a series finale caused controversy when it left the fate of Juliette, played by Hayden Panettiere, hanging in the balance. In the last moments of the show, her plane went missing 90 miles outside of Nashville.

No word on if Panettiere, Connie Britton, Clare Bowen, or any regulars will return for the CMT version, but fans have speculated that this may have been a way to write Juliette out if ABC or any other network saved the show.

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Nashville wasn’t the only series saved by another network this year, Supergirl flew from CBS to the CW where it’ll join other DC shows Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow.

And this follows in the tradition of other network-swappers like Southland, which aired on NBC for one season before jumping to TNT for another four, Cougar Town, which split its airtime between three seasons on ABC and the final three on TBS, and another Connie Britton show, Friday Night Lights, that was saved from certain destruction on NBC for three seasons on DirecTV’s 101 Network.

Other shows have jumped from network to streaming services, like The Mindy Project that was dropped by Fox, but Hulu picked it up for a successful fourth season and a recent fifth season renewal. And let us not forget Community. The critic and fan-favorite series that hung on for dear life for five seasons at NBC was given new life at Yahoo for Season Six. If we’re to believe the #SixSeasonsAndAMovie hashtag, there may still be a silver screen Community on the horizon.


So! Are you excited for Nashville’s move to CMT? And which of your favorite shows do you wish would have been saved? Hit us up on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram or leave your comments below. And check out our host, Khail Anonymous, on Twitter.