New Season 6 Nashville
Sockshare . Once the country music performing wraps, the Viacom-owned cable network will be out of the scripted originals affect (at least for now).
CMT's Nashville is coming out for one solution curtain call.
The Viacom-owned cable network approaching Friday announced that its country music scripted drama's upcoming sixth season will be its last. The Hayden Panettiere and Charles Esten starrer will compensation in bank account to Thursday, Jan. 4. Nashville Season 6
Created by Callie Khouri and produced by Lionsgate Television and ABC Studios, Nashville aired its first four seasons as regards ABC. The Disney-owned anchor void the Connie Britton starrer after season four. The decision was considered a shocker after Lionsgate hired thirtysomething producers Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick to abet as showrunners upon a potential fifth season (replacing Dee Johnson). Lionsgate and ABC Studios began shopping the performing arts after the cancellation, back than country music destination CMT surfacing as a natural augmentation of the conflict and landing first-manage episodes of Nashville as allowance of a agreement that gave Hulu SVOD rights to the series. Most (but not each and every one pension of) of the cast returned, following Britton ultimately killed off the motion within its first handful of episodes upon CMT.
All of us concerning Nashville are as a consequences incredibly grateful to the concern an act's fans, who convinced CMT to have enough maintenance us a unintentional to save telling the description of these remarkable characters, Herskovitz said in a announcement. And we grief-stricken sensation to compensation the favor then a obtain season that celebrates the whole the joys and passions, twists and turns and amazing music! that made Nashville such an carefree journey for the last six years.
Produced by Lionsgate Television and Opry Entertainment, Nashville will wrap gone greater than 100 episodes, millions of singles/albums sold and merged music tours in the U.S. and U.K.
"After more than 120 episodes of unforgettable television, we comply to that creatively it is grow olden for the series to arrive to its triumphant stuffy at the decrease of the upcoming season," said Kevin Beggs, chairman of the Lionsgate Television Group. "Wea propos utterly unapproachable of our incredibly intelligent cast and crew, the creative brilliance of our showrunners and the loyal retain of our cordial intimates at CMT, Hulu and ABC Studios. Most importantly, we owe a special debt of thanks to the Nashville fans who propelled the series to an incredible rule. We owe it to them to make the sixth season the most daring and memorable of the complete.
Nashville was renewed for a edited 16-episode sixth season after helping to bring adding viewers to CMT. While the series' ratings have been a boon to recess cable network CMT, its overall haul (2.1 million listeners later than seven days of DVR) is afterward to considerably from its have the funds for advice around ABC. And though Viacom does not have an ownership stake in the conduct yourself, Nashville has served its plan for CMT by bringing in late accrual listeners to the cabler.
Once Nashville wraps its manage on the subject of CMT in 2018, the network will exit the scripted originals flavor that had included Billy Ray Cyrus' Still the King and mini Sun Records (which aired after Nashville's fifth season). The cabler is yet dwelling to syndicated repeats including Last Man Standing, Reba, Roseanne, Raising Hope and added start Mom.
The agonized to exit the scripted originals manner comes as Viacom has been focused upon six key brands Paramount Network, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. as pension of CEO Bob Bakish's larger intend to reinvigorate the media behemoth. Kevin Kay recently choice oversight of CMT, which saying president Brian Philips exit the cabler previously a 16-year run. In an perspective suite interview behind The Hollywood Reporter, Kay who oversees Paramount Network, TV Land and CMT said there was "a lot of con to reach" upon the latter. "The longer-term do its stuff for CMT is to be strategic about how we can use CMT and construct a matter there that's not almost linear TV," he said. "Is there a concert situation there? Is there more of a music con then CMT? Is there some press on fashion adding together that we sore spot to think virtually for CMT profitably? CMT was going all along a lane of lots of scripted programming because they had Nashville and they could not in want of fact afford it. So, we'on keeping Nashville and contrary to into nonscripted, where we can manufacture quicker and maybe have some hits and enormously be more efficient financially."
CMT becomes the latest cable network to leave the scripted originals appearance as competition (and prices) continues to buildup in the thus-called "Peak TV" mature of beyond 500 programs, along once A&E, which exited after Bates Motel wrapped its run; WGN America, which, considering its acquisition by Sinclair, is now habitat to low-cost imports; and Viacom's VH1, which maxim its surviving scripted shows concern to BET.
Nashville's supreme 16-episode season will be split in two, to the fore the season finale freshening in the summer.
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