“Nashville” chronicles the lives of various fictitious country music singers in Nashville, Tennessee that stars Rayna James as legendary country music superstar whose stardom begins fading while the younger Juliette emerges into the scene.
The series, created by Academy Award winner Callie Khouri and produced by R.J. Cutler, Khouri, Dee Johnson, Steve Buchanan, and Connie Britton, premiered on ABC on October 10, 2012, and had more than 8.93 million viewers. The pilot episode was made available on Hulu, iTunes, and ABC.com before it premiered on television.
The series was created by Khouri who lived in Nashville from 1978 to 1982. She already won an Academy Award for writing “Thelma & Louise.”
In an interview with the popular New York Times back then, Khouri said that Nashville is a place that can be mocked and made fun of, and sometimes it deserves to be, like any place. But she said that Nashville is also an incredibly beautiful cosmopolitan city that she wanted the world to see.
She further explained that she wants Nashville to be represented in the TV show in a way that everybody who lives in the place would find it completely realistic.
“Nashville” is actually the first TV series in Khouri’s writing career, after working for two decades as film writer and director on movies that create strong female characters.