“Sometimes there’s a train leaving a station, and if you don’t get on it your life will be different forever.” Yes, the end is near for Nashville, CMT’s venerable countrified soap whose final eight-episode run kicks off at 9 PM Thursday. Check out the new trailer that aired tonight during the CMT Music…

CMT cued up the sixth and final season of Nashville on Thursday and drew the series’ best L+3 numbers since its S5 midseason premiere in early June. The countrified soap drew 1.6M total viewers and a .8 rating in the demo — a 7% boost in viewership and 20% jump in 18-49 over the previous cycle’s average. It also was…

Nashville is officially back at work at its new home on CMT. The show tweeted out the first pics as production kicked off today. The images feature the front page of the script for an episode titled "The Wayfaring Stranger" as well a pic of a few of cast members at the table read. It's the day we've been waiting…

Nashville stars Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere are set to return for Season 5 on CMT. The network and Lionsgate aren’t commenting, but sources tell Deadline it’s pretty much a done deal. The cast of the show is under contract for a couple of more seasons, but it was unclear when the show moved from ABC to CMT…

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about tonight’s ABC series finale of Nashville. If tonight’s Nashville closer felt like a season and not a series finale, that was not by necessity but by design. Like fellow ABC bubble drama Castle, which too got a shocking cancellation, I hear Nashville filmed two endings of…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s every parent’s nightmare, or one of them, more real for some than others depending on social status and the access that privilege and money confer: A disobedient child is reprimanded in the heat of anger, resulting in a minor injury. A suspicious teacher reports the wound and suddenly a mother has her…

SPOILER ALERT: This story includes details about Wednesday night’s episode of Nashville. An already dark beginning of Nashville's fourth season got even darker last night with the tragic death of Oliver Hudson's scheming Jeff Fordham as he tried to save Juliette from jumping off a ledge. The accident comes as Scarlett…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Heroes star Hayden Panettiere is heading back to primetime with a starring role in ABC's drama pilot Nashville. Written by Callie Khouri, directed by R.J. Cutler and produced by Lionsgate and ABC Studios, Nashville is described as a family soap about love, country music, family, politics and sex set…