'Nashville' Season 5 News, Updates, Spoilers: Shorter Scripts, More Music Awaits Season 5, Says New Showrunner
Sometimes, different is better; and that's exactly what "Nashville" Season 5 is set to prove when it returns on January 2017. The upcoming fifth installment may be a reboot of the show after changing hands from ABC to CMT, but the new people behind its helm assured fans that "Nashville" will feature more music and more of the characters we've grown to love.
What to expect from "Nashville" Season 5
According to the new co-showrunner, Marshall Herskovitz, "Nashville" Season 5's premiere mandate had been to cut down the scripts to make room for more music. He asserted that the show was actually a crossroad of the music world, and not exclusively of country. As such, he promised a more diverse range of genres coming to the show to keep its fans interested.
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This new promise to bring in new music is confirmed by the arrival of Joseph David Jones on "Nashville" Season 5. He will be playing Clay, a creative, up-and-coming musician who's mainly associated with modern/eclectic music, as well as African-American music, bluegrass, and classic country. He will be joined by Grammy award winner Rhiannon Giddens, former lead vocalist of the Caroline Chocolate Drops. She will be playing Hanna Jordan, a social worker with the "voice of an angel". Giddens dealt mostly with postmodern music.
New cast members
While on the talk of new cast members, "Nashville' Season 5 will be seeing most of its beloved regular cast return: Hayden Panettiere, Charles Esten, Jonathan Jackson, among others. Connie Britton, however, will be appearing in only 10 of the 22-episode order on the next season. It's not confirmed, however, whether her slashed-down appearance on the show was because she's exiting early, though in a post-Emmy interview with TVLine, Britton had said, " I don't know where those stuff comes from."
She did promise, however, that Marshall Herskowitz and his partner, Ed Zwick, were rallying the show into the best season they've ever had, plus the best writing they've ever seen. And it certainly looks that way. The "Nashville" Season 5 co-showrunner promised to take a closer look at its characters' lives: their depth and the complexity of their relationships; instead of simply having incidents pile up one after the other in an attempt to keep the storyline going.
Excited to watch the new and improved "Nashville" Season 5? The ABC-turned-CMT music drama will debut with a two-hour premiere on Thursday, Jan. 5, and will be available to stream on Hulu the next day.
