'Nashville' season 5 air date, news, updates: Star promises more music, new trailer features return of familiar faces
"Nashville" will be giving fans more music when the show hits TV screens next year.
After being canceled on ABC, "Nashville" has found a new home in CMT and is now gearing up for its anticipated fifth season. With a revamped cast lineup and a new network, actor Charles Esten revealed in a recent interview that the series is going through major changes. Also, the star assured fans that there will be more music in the program.
"We're getting to spend a little more time with the songs," he told Entertainment Tonight. "Some of the plots won't be quite as accelerated, or there won't be quite as many incidents, as [executive producer] Marshall [Herskovitz] has said it. What that means is we're getting more time within the scenes."
"Nashville" is a perfect match to CMT because the network is known as the home of country music. Although the musical part will be highlighted, it won't be the central focus of the show.
Fans should also look forward to the new and interesting story arcs for their favorite characters.
"I had a scene with Connie the other day where it was really nice, because it has this nice lyrical pace," Esten shared. "It was just Deacon and Rayna together in a room talking about — I won't say what — but it was those moments where we got to be a whole lot and be with each other and then [we went to] the next scene."
A few weeks ago, CMT unveiled the first teaser for season 5 which promises more drama and the return of some familiar faces. "We all break. That's what makes us human," Connie Britton's Rayna Jaymes says at some point in the clip. Aside from Britton, the video also showed scenes featuring Hayden Panettiere, Charles Esten, Chris Carmack, Clare Bowen, Lennon Stella, and Sam Palladio.
Tune in to the season 5 premiere of "Nashville" on Thursday, January 5 at 9 p.m. ET on CMT.
