“Nashville” fans can rejoice.
The show will return for a fifth season on CMT after it was canceled by ABC following a four-season run. Fans of the show launched an online effort to save the country music-focused drama, and Lionsgate started pitching the show to other networks until Nashville-based CMT, fittingly, took the show.
The Tennessean newspaper reported on the development on Friday morning.
CMT confirmed the development in a press release.
“CMT heard the fans. The wave of love and appreciation they have unleashed for ‘Nashville’ has been overwhelming,” said Brian Philips, President of CMT. “‘Nashville’ is a perfect addition to our evolving line-up of big music specials, documentaries, and original series. We see our fans and ourselves in this show and we will treasure it like no other network. Nashville belongs on CMT.”
The entire cast is said to be returning to the show.
“CMT heard the fans. The wave of love and appreciation they have unleashed for ‘Nashville’ has been overwhelming,” Brian Philips, President of CMT, said in the release. “‘Nashville’ is a perfect addition to our evolving line-up of big music specials, documentaries, and original series. We see our fans and ourselves in this show and we will treasure it like no other network. Nashville belongs on CMT.”
