Nashville season 5

The fifth season of the American television musical drama series Nashville, created by Callie Khouri, it premiered on December 15, 2016, on CMT, the first on the network. The show features an ensemble cast with Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere in the leading roles as two country music superstars, Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes. The season consisted of 22 episodes that were aired in two parts of eleven episodes each, with Britton appearing in the first part only.

As with seasons three and four, the episodes are named after songs from a variety of country artists, including Sara Evans ("A Little Bit Stronger"), Garth Brooks ("If Tomorrow Never Comes"), Carrie Underwood ("The Night Before (Life Goes On)"), Sheryl Crow ("A Change Would Do You Good"), and Dixie Chicks ("Not Ready to Make Nice").

Production
On May 12, 2016, ABC cancelled the series after four seasons. On June 10, 2016, it was announced that CMT had picked up the series for a fifth season of 22 episodes. The pick-up was assisted by $11 million in economic incentives: $8.5 million comes via the State of Tennessee Film Office, $1 million from the City of Nashville, $1 million from the Nashville Convention & Visitor Corp and $500,000 from Ryman Hospitality. The cast had the first table read on September 1, 2016. Filming began on September 7, 2016. Lily Mariye directed the fourth episode, which began filming on October 10, 2016. Production was well underway by November 2016, with filming on the sixth episode beginning on Friday, November 4. On March 16, 2017, the cast celebrated completing filming on the 100th episode. Filming on the seventeenth episode was taking place on April 26, 2017. Sam Palladio filmed his final scenes for the season on Tuesday, May 30, 2017. The season wrap party was held on June 4, 2017. Filming wrapped on June 8, 2017.

On December 1, 2016, it was announced that the first hour of the two-hour season premiere would premiere December 15, 2016. The sneak peek airing of the first episode aired simultaneously on CMT, MTV, and TV Land. The double episode season premiere totaled a 0.8 demo as it aired across two networks, CMT and Nick at Nite. New episodes first air on CMT, and then air again on Nick at Nite, the same day.

Cast
The fifth season featured two main cast members see their exit. Will Chase and Aubrey Peeples were announced to not be returning to the series in June 2016, although Chase did make a guest appearance.

Main

 * Connie Britton as Rayna Jaymes
 * Hayden Panettiere as Juliette Barnes
 * Clare Bowen as Scarlett O'Connor
 * Chris Carmack as Will Lexington
 * Charles Esten as Deacon Claybourne
 * Jonathan Jackson as Avery Barkley
 * Sam Palladio as Gunnar Scott
 * Lennon Stella as Maddie Conrad
 * Maisy Stella as Daphne Conrad
 * Cameron Scoggins as Zach Welles
 * Kaitlin Doubleday as Jessie Caine

Recurring

 * David Alford as Bucky Dawes
 * Ed Amatrudo as Glenn Goodman
 * Kourtney Hansen as Emily
 * Melvin Kearney as Bo
 * Andi Rayne and Nora Gill as Cadence Barkley
 * Rachel Bilson as Alyssa Greene (season 5B)
 * Joseph David-Jones as Clayton Carter
 * Rhiannon Giddens as Hallie Jordan
 * Christian Coulson as Damien George
 * Linds Edwards as Carl Hockney
 * Odessa Adlon as Liv
 * Ben Taylor as Flynn Burnett
 * Jordan Woods-Robinson as Randall St. Claire
 * Moses Black as Pastor Lewis
 * Jen Richards as Allyson Del Lago
 * Murray Bartlett as Jakob Fine
 * Joanie Stewart as Sheila Goldfarb
 * Bridgit Mendler as Ashley Willerman
 * Jeff Nordling as Brad Maitland
 * Myles Moore as Jake Maitland
 * Katrina Norman as Polly

Guest

 * Megan Barry as herself
 * Will Chase as Luke Wheeler
 * Sylvia Jeffries as Jolene Barnes
 * Kyle Dean Massey as Kevin Bicks
 * Carolina Chocolate Drops as Nashville Chocolate Drops
 * Kathie Lee Gifford as herself
 * Hoda Kotb as herself
 * Carla Gugino as Virginia Wyatt
 * Judith Hoag as Tandy Hampton
 * Eric Close as Teddy Conrad
 * Pam Tillis as herself
 * J.D. Souther as Watty White
 * Ruby Amanfu as herself
 * Blair Gardner as himself
 * Matthew Bellows as Mike Dolan
 * Trevor Noah as himself
 * Harry Connick Jr. as himself
 * Michael Ray as himself
 * Jaden Smith as himself
 * Cassadee Pope as herself
 * RaeLynn as herself
 * Lauren Alaina as herself
 * Kacey Musgraves as herself
 * Danielle Bradbery as herself