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EXCLUSIVE: 9-1-1: Nashville is yet to wrap its Season 1 tally connected ABC but nan first responder play is already making a awesome move for Season 2, bringing successful Ryan Phillippe arsenic a caller bid regular.
Phillippe, who has a multi-year deal, will prima arsenic a brilliant, iconoclastic detective who moves to Nashville from New York. A seductive bad boy pinch a past, he’ll operation up each kinds of juicy play pinch our first responders while starring an investigation into a mysterious criminal tormenting Nashville connected a biblical scale.
He joins existent bid regulars Chris O’Donnell, Jessica Capshaw, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, LeAnn Rimes, Michael Provost, Juani Feliz, Hailey Kilgore, and Hunter McVey.
9-1-1: Nashville, which extends nan 9-1-1 franchise to Tennessee pinch a caller group of heroic first responders and their families, received an early renewal for nan 2026-27 play alongside mothership 9-1-1 successful early March.
After a coagulated ratings start, nan spinoff saw its viewership dip to a debased successful nan autumn finale and enactment debased successful its wintertime return earlier rebounding and hitting 2 bid precocious marks, 1 successful precocious January and 1 successful precocious March. The show presently averages nearly 8 million total viewers complete 35 days of multiplatform viewing connected ABC, Hulu, Hulu connected Disney+ and integer platforms.
There had been immoderate retooling done midstream, pinch much changes planned for nan offseason. That includes a high-profile casting arsenic Phillippe is joining nan show.
9-1-1: Nashville is produced by 20th Television successful relation pinch Ryan Murphy Television. Ryan Murphy, Tim Minear and showrunner Rashad Raisani service arsenic executive producers, on pinch Chris O’Donnell, Brad Buecker, Brad Falchuk and Angela Bassett.
After a break, 9-1-1: Nashville returns April 30, pinch nan Season 1 finale slated for nan pursuing Thursday, May 7.
Phillippe is coming disconnected a starring domiciled connected Prime Video’s YA play bid Motorheads. His bid credits see 2 ABC series, Secrets and Lies and Big Sky, arsenic good arsenic nan lead successful USA’s Shooter. In features, Phillippe adjacent stars successful Paramount’s One Mile and its sequel One Mile More. He is repped by Gersh, MGMT, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
