Given that some of the cast were no longer comfortable filming in TN, I wonder if they would even want to come back.

Supposedly everyone is still on contract and it looks like it will be back but not on ABC.

Just finished watching the finale.    Glad to see the three witches (Autumn, Layla, and Cash) ended up losers. One thread I would have resolved- I would have had them find out Frank killed Vita...

Nashville looking like they'll be calling CMT home...


http://deadline.com/2016/06/nashville-season-5-renewals-cmt-1201765970/

That would be awesome!  I love Nashville.

 

They get picked up and they'll make episodes available quickly on Hulu? Beyond awesome! I'm happy for them.

Aubrey Peeples (Layla) and Will Chase (Luke) are out, at least as regular characters.

Pretty much everyone returns for S5

http://deadline.com/2016/06/nashville-connie-britton-hayden-panettiere-return-season-5-cmt-1201781561/

So happy... still don't understand Will. Also Will & Juliette are signed to Luke's label so I'm wondering what's going to happen there.

So happy the other two are out. There's no purpose for Luke after his relationship with Rayna crashed and burned and Layla was so one-dimensional.

I've always thought Luke should be recurring, especially after the break-up.  Layla served her purpose...buh-bye!

 

I wonder if it will be a shorter season. If so, that would be agood move as they were burning through way too much story.

New showrunners will help also. Hope they make Rayna less saintly. I get the whole strong woman thing,but to have her constantly solving her own and everyone else's problems got a bit wearing.

Also.could she get a housekeeper???Had to laugh that the housework,cooking etc all seem to be done magically.Surely a superstar of her magnitude would have a small army running the house.

Want to see some maturation of Juliette that actually sticks.

 

No CMT is going balls to the wall and I like it -- a full 22 episode season 5 order was given. Plus this gives them big bang syndication because they'll be hitting 100 episodes.

So the show survives cancellation but one of its two leads may not stick around... 

She said she might not want to film in Nashville after their gay hate laws, so if so, kudos to her for sticking to her guns.

She said she might not want to film in Nashville after their gay hate laws, so if so, kudos to her for sticking to her guns.

I really respect her for that. Still, for the show, it means possibly losing 50% of what it's about. There would be no point to watch (although you may feel that already lmao). Maybe they'll do something production-wise if that's the case to accommodate her. 

Anybody still watching? Thoughts? I'm not going to spoil what happened because of the recent posts sidebar but honestly I'm beginning to think that moving the show to CMT wasn't a good idea. Personally I wasn't clamoring for a return and only started watching this season because it showed up in my Hulu queue.