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Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
The show is coming back. End of story.
Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
From a purely emtional fan.. Stay in Nashville! I live watching the background for street performers and locals that I've seen on visits to my favorite vacation city! Keep it authentic. That alone should set it apart from other dramas. Do what it takes Tennesee!
Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
Steve Buchanan is NASHVILLE's executive producer, not THE producer. He's not about to speak out, other than perhaps anonymously, due to a previous, analogous lapse of judgment not related to the series (Stay tuned...)
CBS' Criminal Minds and NBC's Chicago Fire beat out NASHVILLE's season finale at a time the series needed an explosion of viewers, if not the benefit of the explosion staged last month at the intersection of Granny White Pike and Battlefield Drive (doubtlessly annoying locals who don't value noise, traffic delays and detours).
Keep in mind that production of the finale wrapped while the prospect of cancellation was still looming, thus the pressure to write a script that tied up the plot lines' "loose ends" while simultaneously providing a cliffhanger that could, with luck, launch (sustained interest in) new episodes.
My sister is not a country-music fan but she loves NASHVILLE- and not because her sister was cast in a couple of episodes as a paid extra during Season One (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4239537/?ref_=fn_al_nm_4). She is among a legion of the show's fans who don't live in Tennessee and don't care where Nashville is filmed (apart from being happy whenever her sister gets TV work).
Good acting (and NASHVILLE certainly has that) and good scripts, I'm guessing, are the key to retaining my sister's interest in the series. (My focus on my sister is because I believe she is the typical NASHVILLE viewer to the extent that there is such a thing.)
Second season scripts will make or break NASHVILLE. Sadly, all of the bed-hopping during Season One episodes neither supports nor sustains the penchant for realism that has taken the series as far as it has gone. Same is true of the whole paternity issue subplot. How paternity could be kept secret for 13 years only to "suddenly" surface following an overheard conversation followed by a discovery of the hidden evidence fails to answer why all of the conversations on the subject prior to the overheard one were completely discreet (THAT was not by accident) and how evidence, discreetly and successfully hidden all of that time, was suddenly unearthed by someone who was not looking for it. (Tim McGraw should have been a production consultant on this one.)
Stacy Harris
Publisher/Executive Editor/Media Critic
Stacy's Music Row Report
http://stacyharris.com
Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
From a purely practical viewpoint, if production of season 2 is to crank up in July, would the producers even have time to build sets and find locations in L.A. to make it happen there? Talk about spending too much money on overtime. Now that the sets are built and locations secured here in Nashville, wouldn't they be starting from scratch to re-create that infrastructure elsewhere (California or Georgia)? Maybe they'd have time to get all that in place to move production for a potential season 3 but I doubt they could pull it off in 6 weeks to begin shooting the 2nd season.
And I also heard Connie Britton was looking at houses in Nashville. I say they're staying here.
Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
I'm not that impressed with Connie Britton or the show
Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
--make that "crew" members
Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
I heard that Connie Britton bought a home in Nashville, as well as other cast and drew members.
Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
Steve Buchanan from Gaylord lives here and is a Producer. Why isn't he quoted in this article?
Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
Sad to see Nashville officials offering to pony up public funds and begging the production company to take their money - just goes to show you "It aint Show 'ART' it's Show BUSINESS". These giant corporations have had a Wall Steet-esque halcyon period of states competing to get their
'business' when in fact, just as with any other greedy corporate exploiter of say, fossil fuels, once the well (tax breaks) runs dry they move on to greener (Green = Inexperienced) pastures where millions/billions have been spent in a desperate hope to attract the 'Big Business' that is film/TV production, building studios, granting huge tax breaks; free police/public services etc. only to be left used and abused in the night without so much as a kiss goodbye. All the while the 'Over The Line' Producers & Executive Producers list grows Longer and LONGER, cutting costs & corners below the line and granting HUGE pay outs to the Fat Cats that run the heartless production business. Sorry Nashville, you've been had.