Happy trails. ABC has cancelled Nashville after four seasons, Deadline reports.
The country music drama, which stars Hayden Panettiere and Connie Britton, is currently nearing the end of its fourth season.
The cancellation comes as a bit of a surprise. Only a few weeks ago, we reported new showrunners Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz were getting the writer’s room ready for season five and hopeful ABC would renew the series.
However, ratings have dropped over the course of the show’s fourth season. So far, Nashville is earning an average rating of .98 in the 18-49 demo and 4.221 million viewers. Comparatively, the third season averaged a 1.34 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 5.16 million total viewers.
The season four, and now series, finale of Nashville airs on May 25th.
What do you think? Do you watch Nashville? Do you think the series should’ve been renewed?
Best show on tv, please keep it.
Please don’t cancel Nashville it is my favorite show!!!!! You shouldn’t have such a long break in the middle of the year I think people think the season is over?????
James Ruble I think that sucks it was bad enough it wasn’t on every week but now to cancel it? My whole family is home to watch it and if not we watch it from the DVR I have every show recorded. I think this is a poor move by ABC.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME????? I cannot BELIEVE Nashville has been cancelled – I AM DEVASTATED !!!!! PLEASE reconsider……:(
Idiot move, cancelling both Castle & Nashville – same story w/Body of Proof & Forever in the past. ABC cannot hope to get ratings on par w/any of these shows in their 3rd hour w/a new show. No wonder they are so bad in the ratings race.
Nashville is my favorite show. I want it to be renewed. I never in a million years thought it was even on the cancelled show list. This is an excellant show with a great story line. I don’t even like country music, but i love Nashville. I think maybe people arn’t watching becuase they don’t like country music, but it so much more than that. Please Please don’t cancel the show.
I think Nashville should remain on. It’s such a good show. Cancel something else ! Like a reality show !!
Nashville was great up until this season. The direction the show went into is depressing and downright irritating. While I agree there are other sillier shows out there that should go away before Nashville, I won’t miss this one as much as I would have in past seasons when they were playing lots of good music and allowing some of the characters to be happy.
I look forward to Wednesday’s because of Nashville. I pray the series will find a new home to continue if you cancel the show.
Darn it don’t cancel it, this is one of only a few shows on ABC that I watch. I love this show!! Just when it starting to get really good, I want to see where the character of Mattie going to New York.
I am so sad that Nashville is cancelled. I love the show and have watched it since the beginning. Ratings were probably down because Hayden Panettiere was on leave from the show and her character is very important to the dynamics of the show. I wish ABC would reconsider and renew it for another season. It deserves a second chance.
I loved Nashville – as a previous writer said it was in the same genre of the great shows like Dallas and Dynasty.
ABC has the Thursday lineup and could well afford to keep a solid show like Nashville in its lineup despite slight rating drops.
It’s a shame that we are subjected to all the so-called reality shows and mindless sitcoms.
Totally sick of all these self-proclaimed ‘programming geniuses’ catering to the 49 and under crowd. People don’t crawl into an easy chair and watch news all day when they turn 50. Love Nashville! Love the music! Love that I don’t feel uncomfortable watching it with my parents, kids, or grandkids! There are a lot more shows on ABC that should be cancelled before Nashville.
I have watched Nashville since first episode it is like the older nighttime soap stories, Dallas, Dynasty, Knots Landing. TV is becoming reality shows only and so many people do NOT want reality shows we want good stories to watch and follow each week. This show has been great. To many silly 30 min sitcoms on that should be taken off before Nashville should be canceled. Doesn’t make any sense to cancel this show.
Is it just me or does it seem like when your really getting into a series they go and change or cancel it? I was saddened to hear this about this show. I’m an avid fan of country music and really enjoyed this show because of the storyline wrapping around the Nashville scene. Hopefully, a fifth season will still be in the works and another station or avenue like Netflix or Hulu will pick it up. One can only hope.