{"id":229930,"date":"2025-10-16T21:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229930\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:20:12","slug":"911-nashville-boss-teases-episode-2-and-crossover-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229930\/","title":{"rendered":"911 Nashville Boss Teases Episode 2 and Crossover Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT:\u00a0This review contains spoilers for the series premiere of \u201c9-1-1<\/a>: Nashville.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRyan Murphy\u2019s \u201c9-1-1\u201d franchise set out to fill the \u201cLone Star\u201d-shaped hole in fans\u2019 hearts with the Oct. 9 debut of new spinoff \u201c9-1-1: Nashville<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile similar to Fox\u2019s \u201c9-1-1: Lone Star<\/a>\u201d with its cowboy aesthetic, ABC\u2019s \u201cNashville\u201d has an all new cast \u2014 Chris O\u2019Donnell, Jessica Capshaw, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, LeAnn Rimes, Hailey Kilgore, Michael Provost, Juani Feliz and Hunter McVey \u2014 a new city and new drama in its first responder\u2019s personal lives, in the form of long-lost sons, scheming exes and jealous brothers.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show returns Oct. 16 with its second episode, which will pick up immediately where the series premiere left off, with a multi-episode tornado and stadium-collapse disaster arc. Yes, the \u201c9-1-1\u201d franchise has seen a twister before, but showrunner Rashad Raisani (who was also the head writer and producer on \u201cLone Star\u201d) assures fans that \u201cNashville\u201d will distinguish itself from its L.A.-based parent series \u201c9-1-1\u201d (led by series creator and showrunner Tim Minear) as well as \u201cLone Star.\u201d But its first crossover episode with lead-in \u201c9-1-1\u201d is in the second episode of \u201cNashville.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cThere is going to be a small one coming up right away that is more on the \u20189-1-1\u2019 hour,\u201d Raisani teased to Variety ahead of Episode 2, adding: \u201cWe are planning and trying to figure out a way to get this crossover going. Whether it\u2019ll be late in Season 1 or early Season 2, it\u2019s in the works for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for whether or not Raisani is planning to bring back any fan-favorite \u201cLone Star\u201d characters on \u201cNashville,\u201d he says he would \u201clove it,\u201d but \u201cit\u2019s going to depend on story, and it\u2019s going to depend on actors\u2019 availability.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe definitely would love to bring them in, and I think we\u2019re going to balance that with wanting to let our characters from \u2018Nashville\u2019 find their footing with the audience, and shine. And then once that\u2019s really up and running, then we can start integrating some of these other characters.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Disney\/Jake Giles Netter<\/p>\n

\n\tRaisani noted that \u201cLone Star\u201d lead Rob Lowe\u2019s character Owen ended in up New York at the end of the Fox series, \u201cso that\u2019s not too far away\u201d \u2014 plus, Lowe\u2019s real-life brother, Chad Lowe, is a producer on the \u201cNashville\u201d set, \u201cso there\u2019s always possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSee below for more from Variety\u2019s \u201c9-1-1: Nashville\u201d debut chat with Raisani.<\/p>\n

\t\t\u201c9-1-1: Nashville\u201d breaks a precedent set by \u201c9-1-1: Lone Star,\u201d which could have been \u201c9-1-1: Austin.\u201d Did you consider \u201c9-1-1: Music City,\u201d to be more in keeping with the previous choice?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWe actually did explore a few different titles. And as we got to know the city of Nashville, and in talking with them, too \u2014 and to be honest, I think there may have been some marketing people \u2014 I think that \u201cNashville\u201d just said it. And there was a little bit of vagueness about Music City, that people would think it was a musical or music-based. And also, we wanted to not just say that Nashville is only about music. There\u2019s other things that are really cool and dynamic about it. And so I think at the end of the day, we just thought, OK, let\u2019s just say \u201cNashville,\u201d because then it\u2019s a little bit more all encompassing than maybe naming one aspect of the city.<\/p>\n

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\t\tWhere did the long-lost son storyline between Don (Chris O\u2019Donnell), his son Ryan (Michael Provost), and his estranged son Blue (Hunter McVey), come from as the central conflict of the show?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tRyan Murphy had that original inspiration. He just really wanted to tell a story about a father and a son, and the son felt like he always had the perfect family, and then it gets disrupted in the biggest way. That was Ryan\u2019s original inspiration for how to approach this whole series, and then we just kind of went with it. And for me, I\u2019ve always been obsessed with the prodigal son story in the Bible, and I\u2019m an older brother. I\u2019ve always identify with a brother who feels like, \u201cHey, what the hell? I did all this work, and now I\u2019m getting kicked to the curb.\u201d So it\u2019s always been a really powerful story for me, and when he pitched it, I was able to connect with it right away.<\/p>\n

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\t\tHow did LeAnn Rimes get involved in the show to play Dixie, Blue\u2019s mother \u2014 and the ex-girlfriend of Don, who is married to Blythe (Jessica Capshaw)?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tShe got involved the old-fashioned way. That part was just written as Dixie, and she auditioned. And I\u2019ll never forget, we got a call from casting right after she auditioned to say, \u201cWe just saw lightning in a bottle.\u201d And when I watched that audition, it was so electric, it was so incredible. Because obviously, I\u2019ve known who LeAnn Rimes is for many years, but I thought she was unrecognizable as Dixie. It was just one of those things where even before she spoke, she had the cigarette in her hand, and the way she held it, I was like, \u201cOh, well, that\u2019s it. That\u2019s her.\u201d And so she truly just gave the audition of all time. For me, it was just amazing.<\/p>\n

\t\tI need to know if the character name for Dixie\u2019s son, Blue, came before or after LeAnn Rimes \u2014 who has a famous song titled \u201cBlue\u201d \u2014 was cast.\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThat is just kismet. Ryan Murphy, another great line of his was, \u201cAnd I think the son should be named Blue, because I think America is ready for a kid named Blue.\u201d And so that was before we knew LeAnn was involved. And then I said to her, \u201cIsn\u2019t this bizarre?\u201d It\u2019s just kismet.<\/p>\n

\t\tHow did you decide what the big opening emergency for \u201cNashville\u201d would be?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was a confluence of things. One of them was there\u2019s a real stadium collapse, a terrible story, that this was inspired by. We had been looking at it when we were doing \u201cLone Star,\u201d specifically, but it didn\u2019t ever make sense for the creative or the logistics that we could pull it off in \u201cLone Star.\u201d And then as we were looking for, what\u2019s the most sort of iconic way to get into \u201cNashville\u201d? What\u2019s the most iconic emergency? That collapse was always in my mind, that we could use that. And then our great partners at ABC, they were like, \u201cLet\u2019s get somebody great. Let\u2019s not have it be some fake singer. Let\u2019s get a real singer who can act and can be a character in the show.\u201d And that was how it started to turn into Kane Brown. And then it just felt like, OK, now we really have something exciting, where it can be somebody who\u2019s famous anyway, who has a great song they\u2019ll play, and then they can have a big hand in the resolution of the story.<\/p>\n

\t\tWe only got to see a little bit of Kimberly Williams-Paisley\u2019s character, the 9-1-1- dispatcher Cammie, in the premiere. What can you tease about her?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tHer character, we call her the Southern heartbeat of the show. Kimberly is so wonderful as Cammie. She\u2019s got such a sweet, but also wry, funny energy. And I just, I just love all the calls she does. She\u2019s so terrific. And we\u2019re gonna find out that Cammie did not start as a 9-1-1 dispatcher. She came to this very late in life, in the last five years. She was a music producer, and after a terrible tragedy, which we\u2019ll unpack in the show, she switched careers to try and make the world a better place. She has a lot going on beneath the surface.<\/p>\n

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\t\tIn the premiere, Don decides to give his long-lost son Blue a job at the fire station alongside himself and his other son, Ryan, citing a cadet program where you can get training in the field. Is that a real program? And how is this going to work in the show, because it feels crazy even for \u201c9-1-1\u201d?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cadet program is a real program, and it has been. Now, the part where you go, \u201cOK, it\u2019s usually done in, like, extreme emergencies. It\u2019s when it\u2019s the fire of all fires.\u201d So, yeah, Don is technically right, that does exist. But as Ryan\u2019s like, that\u2019s crazy \u2014 and then the chief of the fire department in a few episodes is going to be like, That\u2019s crazy. That\u2019s unacceptable \u2014 the you-know-what will hit the fan on that. But a big thing that we\u2019re trying to do also is Don\u2019s guilt is making him do things that maybe he shouldn\u2019t necessarily do as a captain at the beginning. That was the impetus for that.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis interview has been edited and condensed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT:\u00a0This review contains spoilers for the series premiere of \u201c9-1-1: Nashville.\u201d Ryan Murphy\u2019s \u201c9-1-1\u201d franchise set out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[36125,128372,36126,88,128373,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-229930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-9-1-1","9":"tag-9-1-1-lone-star","10":"tag-9-1-1-nashville","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-just-watched","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}