A live aftershow, NashChat, began airing live across social media platforms on Thursday, January 5, and aired immediately after every new episode during season five. On December 1, 2016, it was announced that a preview of episode one would air on December 15, 2016, with the season starting on January 5, 2017, along with a set of new producers, writers, and showrunners. In June 2016, it was picked up by CMT for a fifth season. The series premiered on ABC, on October 10, 2012, and had more than 8.93 million viewers. The series chronicles the lives of various fictitious country music singers in Nashville, Tennessee, starring Connie Britton as Rayna Jaymes, a legendary country music superstar, whose stardom begins fading, and Hayden Panettiere as rising younger star Juliette Barnes. Cutler, Khouri, Dee Johnson, and Steve Buchanan through season four, Connie Britton through season five, and Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick from season five on. It was created by Callie Khouri and produced by R. Nashville is an American musical soap opera television series.
