Hayden Panettiere plays up-and-comer Juliette and Charles Esten is Deacon, one of Rayna Jaymes' (Connie Britton) former romantic and musical partners.
(Credit: Katherine Bomboy-Thornton, ABC)
ABC has picked up freshman drama Nashville for a full season, the network announced Monday.
The country-music soap starring Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere as dueling divas is ABC's third full-season renewal — nine more episodes totaling 22 to carry it into spring — along with comedy The Neighbors and returning drama Scandal. Nashville averages about 9 million viewers, and wins its Wednesday 10 p.m. time period in the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49 age group.
The network has several other shows whose full-season fate remains undetermined, including dramas 666 Park Avenue and Last Resort and late-premiering comedy Malibu Country.
