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'Nashville' Canceled After 4 Seasons at ABC

Drama starring Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere will not return for Season 5

| May 12, 2016 @ 2:59 PM
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"Nashville" has been cancelled by ABC and will not return for Season 5, TheWrap has learned.

The country music drama, starring Hayden Panettiere and Connie Britton, was one of the few veteran ABC series that remained on the bubble after the network handed out 15 early renewals in March.

Previously, "My So-Called Life" producers Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick were named new showrunners of "Nashville" for a potential fifth season, replacing departing showrunner Dee Johnson if the show were to be renewed.

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The show's ratings slipped to an all-time series low with the fall finale, pulling a 0.8 rating in the key 18-49 demographic, and delivered a new rock-bottom 4.137 million total viewers, per Nielsen's live-plus-same-day data.

The news comes ahead of ABC's May 17 upfronts event, where the network will officially announce its new fall schedule, including which shows will be renewed for another season and which pilots will go to series.

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Spoiler alert: TheWrap looks back on some of the wildest plot twists in ABC country music drama's four seasons

"Nashville" is the story of reigning country music queen Rayna (Connie Britton), who feels threatened with the arrival of young sensation Juliette (Hayden Panettiere). But the two eventually come to terms and help each other navigate the drama-filled world of country music

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