Though Nashville hasn’t been a stellar hit for ABC, it is the network’s most successful new series of the season. As a result, ABC has ordered a full season of episodes.
Nashville follows the story of country music’s Rayna James (Connie Britton), a legendary superstar whose popularity is starting to fade. Her producers offer her a joint tour with an up-and-comer, Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere), the young and sexy future of country music. The cast also includes Powers Boothe, Charles Esten, Eric Close, Clare Bowen, Jonathan Jackson, Sam Palladio, Robert Wisdom, and Judith Hoag.
The series debuted to a 2.8 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 8.93 million total viewers. The ratings fell by 29% in week two, hitting a 2.0 rating with 6.74 million. While the Halloween night episode dropped to a 1.8 rating, the show seems to have stabilized at a 2.0 demo rating.
Nashville marks the second full-season order of the season for a new ABC show. The first was for newbie sitcom The Neighbors. Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue both received additional script orders but no additional episodes have been ordered.
What do you think? Have you been watching Nashville on ABC? Are you glad to hear they’ve ordered more episodes? Do you think it will be renewed for a second season?
I absolutely loooooove this show!!! I look forward to it every week! Wednesdays use to be a drag because nothing interesting would come on and now I have something to look forward to! Even when I couldnt watch it that night I have it on DVR and also still go to the website to catch up! There are a little too many reruns, love reruns because you get a change to catch up but Ive already seen one episode place 2x already after its original air date!! Please Dont Cancel It!! I love Juliet and Reyna I cant wait to… Read more »
I’ve fallen in love with Nashville!. It keeps getting better and has drawn me in to each story line. ABC please keep this show!!!! I agree with a comment one wrote about the reruns being too often. I get sad when a new episode doesn’t air on Wednesdays. I’m sure it drives people away. Keep up the great writing and story lines and air new episodes more often!! Deacon is my favorite character…who doesn’t love him?
This is the best show I have seen in years. Please don’t even think of cancelling. I agree you lose viewers when you continue to show reruns in the middle of the season. People get frustrated with all the reruns. I watch every week anyway. I think the characters have a lot of chemistry which is rare. Advertise more if you want more viewers.
I agree, for sure!!
Love the show. Love the music.
I can’t believe you would cancel this show. The best in a long time. You have nothing but repeats. Maybe if you gave us a full year of a show people would get interested. The stars get millons of dollars on TV, we pay millons to see them and for weeeks and weeks get repeats,why?
LOVE this show!!!! But by repeating the shows so much, you are frustrating your viewers! All excited to watch and it’s ANOTHER rerun!!!!! You are making it hard to follow and you may lose viewers because we want to follow the story but we keep getting thrown backwards, WTH?!! DO NOT CANCEL this show!!!!! IT is one of the VERY BEST on!
This show will go on for decades it you would let it flow the PROPER way!
I can’t believe you have been showing reruns already. We just get into the show and you do this to us. This was about the only decent show on. Give us a break and bring it back new.
I love Nashville. Best show of the year. Talent is great. I llook forward to each week so have been really bummed at all repeats. A friend had not seen it so she came over and watched all of the episodes in one day. She couldn’t quit watching
I hope that this series will continue. It is one of the best on TV, and the music is great.
Love this show! Can’t wait from week to week to watch it! Soooooo disappointed the last 2 weeks have been reruns!! PLEASE DON’T CANCEL THIS SHOW!! Waiting for more Nashville!!!
DITTOS! Do NOT cancel Nashville!!! LOVE the show. Very P-O’d by the airing of two weeks in a row repeat episodes. Nashville and the Batchelor are the only two shows I watch that are non-cable channel shows.
This has been the best new show on regular tv. The new songs make the show different from the others. I love all the actors so I don’t miss a show! It would be a mistake for them not to renew for another season. With people’s busy lifestyle it takes a while before people even realize a certain shoe is even on. I was in Nashville a while back and was surprised that many people didn’t even know there was a show about Nashville. Give it a chance.
Came across the ratings article first when I went searching to see when Nashville would be back from hiatus and nearly had a heart attack seeing ‘cancelled’ in the title. Love this show. I buy every episode at amazon.com as it becomes available -and- buy the the mp3s to download to my phone to listen on the go.
ABC should renew for a second season, definitely! The Neilson rating system should no longer be the basis by which networks define if a show is a success or not.
Please do not cancel this show, it is my favorite show out of everything i watch, look forward to watching it every wed. nite, and the actors and actresses are Superb!!!!!!
My favorite show since Dynasty , which i used to watch . Please, dont’ cancel! I would be disappointed !!!!!!!!!! if they did.
Would like it if they would run it instead of constantly repeating about four episodes
ABC, Please Don’t Cancel This Show!