ABC Gives Series Orders to Connie Britton's 'Nashville,'
ABC has picked up its first new series for the 2012-13 season, adding a musical drama starring Friday Night Lights' Connie Britton, a nuclear drama from The Shield's Shawn Ryan, a crime drama with Radha Mitchell, mystery hours featuring ER's Anthony Edwards and Lost's Terry O'Quinn and four comedies.
Nashville is described as a family soap set against the backdrop of the Nashville music scene revolving around one star at her peak (Britton) and another on the rise (Hayden Panettiere). Eric Close, Powers Boothe, Sam Palladio, Clare Bowen, Jonathan Jackson, Robert Wisdom and Charles Esten co-star in the ABC Studios, Lionsgate and Gaylord Entertainment-produced hour which filmed in Nashville.
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Nashville is described as a family soap set against the backdrop of the Nashville music scene revolving around one star at her peak (Britton) and another on the rise (Hayden Panettiere). Eric Close, Powers Boothe, Sam Palladio, Clare Bowen, Jonathan Jackson, Robert Wisdom and Charles Esten co-star in the ABC Studios, Lionsgate and Gaylord Entertainment-produced hour which filmed in Nashville.
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