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Jonathan Jackson Posts Special Message to Nashies: CMT Acknowledges Fans Helped Make Nashville's Fifth Season A Reality!

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Friday was a great day for #Nashies with the vocal fans of Nashville, received the news that their soap is continuing on for its fifth season on CMT, with the following day episodes being made available online at Hulu.

Former General Hospital favorite and one of the main stars of Nashville, Jonathan Jackson (Avery) took to Twitter with a special thank you to the fans for helping keeping the series alive and now their efforts are paying off.  (See video below) Jackson posted along with his video message: “Thank you, #Nashies #NashvillesBack”

In the official press release from CMT on the series pick-up, Brian Phillips, president of the network noted: “The wave of love and appreciation they have unleashed for Nashville has been overwhelming. Nashville is a perfect addition to our evolving line-up of big music specials, documentaries, and original series.  We see our fans and ourselves in this show and we will treasure it like no other network. Nashville belongs on CMT.”

Connie Britton (Rayna) was also credited the fans for Nashville’s upcoming fifth season, when she told ETOnline: ” Look, that was an example of fans being really enthusiastic and we really owe that all to the fans. The same (happened) with Friday Night Lights and Nashville is experiencing the same good fortune.”

Glad to see Jonathan will be back as Avery on the upcoming fifth season of Nashville? Watch his video ‘thank you’ after the jump, and then weigh-in on how the fans brought back the music city drama!


 

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I am so thrilled Nashville will be returning! YEAH!!!!! Great show, storyline and actors, glad to know you all are returning.

There’s a reason why Michael Fairman is as respected in the soap industry as an alley cat and it’s because of things like this: his constant ass-kissing of homophobic douche Jonathan Jackson.

As a gay man, he should be ashamed of himself a thousand times over, especially on a weekend like this.

Jonathan Jackson is homoohobic?? Oh wow, I have never heard that!! Details??

WHAT THE H ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT????? JONATHAN JACKSON??

Thank you, thank you, thank you CMT! Yes Nashville belongs on CMT!♥️

This is AWSOME news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am thrilled!! Thank you CMT for being so SMART to pick up this wonderful show with such talented stars.

YAY!!!! Thrilled to know all Nashville fans can continue to watch this great show!! Big thanks to CMT!! Yes, Nashville DOES belong on CMT❤️

Wonderful news …… Love the show

Oh, yay! I’ll definitely be watching.

I love Nashville!! I sure was going to miss it and the characters. So glad CMY picked it up!!

Very, Very Happy! I’ll be sure to watch!

Still say he’s wasting his talent there.

He’s not wasting his talent there. This phenomenal show has over six million viewers. Jonathan lives in Nashvillie, has his own band and acts. He gets to have it all on this show; he’s one of the main characters AND he gets to play music. I’d say he’s living his dream.

Awesome news CMT gain is ABC lost- what dumb butts! Cannot wait to see the show this fall !!!!

Happy for all the fans that their show continues. I does make me wonder whats up with ABC. They give us great shows ( AMC & OLTL) and then cancel them. Nashville is the latest prove of this. I feel so many viewers must watch online or other ways that ABC thinks their show are less popular than they really are. Still dreaming of a proper retunn of OLTL but we all know dreams hardly come true.

There is so many of us dreamers out there but ABC no longer has a connection to their audience. Shame on them.

Jonatham Jackson is an excellent actor and performer. Thrilled to see Nashville lives on.

Nashville

Hayden Panettiere Reveals Filming ‘Nashville’ was ‘Traumatizing’; Writers Used Her Personal Struggles with Addiction, Postpartum as Storylines

Nashville and former Guiding Light star, Hayden Panettiere (ex-Lizzie, GL) opened up about her final seasons on the ABC country music primetime drama, where the show touched too close to home for the actress who played lead character, Juliette Barnes.

In an interview with The Messenger, Hayden shared that during the run of the show from 2012-2018, she feels that the writers, more often that not, pulled from her real life while crafting Juliette’s storylines.

Hayden said on the years she spent filming the series that it was “also very traumatizing because I felt like I was acting out my own life.”

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Previously, the actress had shared that her dependency on alcohol and opioids as a teenager led to her dependency in her adult life. In addition, Nashville told the story of Juliette’s postpartum depression, which also mirrored Panettiere’s experience who went through the same thing when her own daughter was born.

Explaining what went down behind the scenes, Hayden recalled: “Straight from the beginning, it was like, I’m dating a football player, (and then) Juliette dates a football player. And then they turned her into an alcoholic. Then they turned to her leaving her daughter and going to this crazy (place) in Europe, and it was very obvious.”

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The actress added, ‘They weren’t doing their homework. They weren’t creating new storylines. They were just looking at my life and going, ‘Oh, let’s just take what she’s going through and put our little spin on it.’ And then, ta-da! It’s done and done.”

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Hayden added that she didn’t have time to care of herself and the pain she was going through physically and emotionally, so she tried to watch mindless TV and shows to help her calm down. Panettiere also felt that when she knew she had to go back to the set of Nashville, she did, “anything to keep my mind off of that because I knew that next day I was going to be back at it again. I was like, tear central. I don’t even think on a soap opera that I cried as much (as I did) on Nashville.”

Hayden is set to make three upcoming appearances of her A Conversation With Hayden Panettiere live series in New York on February 23 and Washington D.C. on February 24.

So, do you think the Nashville writers literally stole creative ideas for the character of Juliette Barnes based on Hayden’s personal struggles? It certainly on paper seems so. Share your thoughts via the comment section below.

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Jonathan Jackson Reunites with Stars from ‘Nashville’ for New Tour Across the UK

He won five Daytime Emmys as General Hospital’s Lucky Spencer and now actor and musician, Jonathan Jackson is scheduled to head to the United Kingdom this fall, when he reunites with some of the cast of the former ABC primetime music city drama, Nashville.

Jackson shared on his Instagram, “This has been in the works for a while, and I’m thrilled to announce that the NASHVILLE cast and I are reuniting for a special UK tour this October. I’m excited about this!”

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On Nashville, Jonathan Jackson starred for six season as Avery Barkley before the series concluded in the summer of 2018, after it moved from ABC to CMT for its final two seasons.

Joining Jonathan on the Nashville reunion tour are his former co-stars Clare Bowen, Charles Esten, and Sam Palladio. The fab four will play shows in Glasgow, Birmingham,  London, and Cardiff, as they tour the UK.

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If you are in the UK and wanted to get your tickets early, the presale is already underway.  The general sale tickets will become available tomorrow on Thursday, March 9, beginning at 9:30 a.m.  Go to Gigs and Tours.com to purchase.

With GH’s 60th anniversary just a few weeks away, do you wish somehow Jonathan Jackson was brought back just for even a little while to reprise his role as Lucky? Would you like to see the ‘Nashville’ tour here in the states? Comment below.

 

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Guiding Light

GL and ‘Nashville’ Alum Hayden Panettiere Loses Her Younger Brother Jansen at 28-Years-Old

Just devastating news to report on Monday evening.  Hayden Panettiere’s (ex-Lizzie, Guiding Light, ex-Juliette, Nashville) younger brother Jansen Panettiere has died at only 28-years-old.

According to TMZ,  Jansen died over the weekend in New York.  His cause of death is not available, but there was no foul play suspected in Jansen’s death.  Police responded to a call and came to a residence at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday where they found Jansen.

As with his sister, Jansen was deep into his acting career and was only five years younger than Hayden.

Throughout his career he appeared in Even Stevens, The X’sTiger CruiseRacing StripesThe Martial Arts Kid, The Walking Dead, Major Crimes, and the holiday film Love and Love Not.

Less than 3 weeks ago, Jansen shared an adorable picture on his Instagram with his hair being cut by his big sister, Hayden.

Jansen is survived by Hayden and their parents, Lesley Vogel and Skip Panettiere.

Send your love and condolences to Hayden and her family on the sudden passing of Jansen via the comment section below.

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