'Nashville' TV Show, ABC Premiere: Preview & Spoilers For Oct. 10 Air Date [EXTENDED TRAILER]
ABC is set to premiere its music drama series "Nashville" on Wednesday night, Oct. 10. The program will be primarily based on the country music capital of the world, Nashville. The highly-anticipated show will also look to delve into the energy and characteristics that truly exist in the well-known city.
Executive producer and series creator Callie Khouri, who is known for penning the Oscar-winning screenplay "Thelma & Louise," spoke to the Los Angeles Times about the surprising mystique that surrounds the famous southern town.
"It's a community that has been marginalized, overlooked and made fun of at the same time that it's been wildly successful. I felt I had never seen a really true representation of what my experience of Nashville was," she said. "I felt like I always saw a hokey version of something that really could be incredibly moving and wonderful and just deserved more than it was getting."
The pilot episode of "Nashville" revolves around the friction between the reigning queen of country music Rayna James (Connie Britton) and up-and-coming musician Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere). The drama that's portrayed on the small screen is said to mimic the day-to-day rifts that regularly occur between real-life veterans and newbies making their way into the country world.
Khouri, originally born in San Antonio, made daily trips to the Nashville area to visit her relatives during her childhood and ended up residing there for four years upon graduating college. In order to more efficiently pen the script, Khouri utilized musician and songwriter T-Bone Burnett, who is also her husband.
"Now we actually get to see each other," she said.
Although the writer anticipates several individuals from the Nashville community to have initial concerns over how their town will be depicted in the show, she does hope that they will end up feeling at home while watching.
"I hope that it feels real to the people who are watching it who have no idea about the music, and that it feels real to people who are in the music business; that they'll see it and say 'Wow, OK, that's close enough for me,' " Khouri said.
"Nashville" will debut its pilot episode on Wednesday, Oct. 10 at 10 p.m. ET on the ABC network.
