Reality Rumors

Fox has announced that Nashville, a new reality series that will follow a group of young people trying to make their mark in Nashville’s music industry, will debut as part of the network’s Fall 2007 primetime programming schedule.

Fox Entertainment president Peter Liguori, who announced the new show during a Thursday conference call in which the network unveiled its 2007-2008 primetime programming schedule, told reporters that Nashville – created by Go Go Lucky Productions, the same production company behind MTV’s Laguna Beach, The Hills, and 8th & Ocean reality shows – came about as the result of the network’s “[interest] in looking at an unscripted drama.”

“I fell in love with the casting,” said Liguori about Nashville.  “When you see it, these kids are beautiful and they’re talented and they have great back stories.  I mean we have the proverbial coal-miner’s daughter as someone who is talented.  Their stories… each and everyone one of them has a great one.  And honestly, they’re going into something that is meaningful.  They’re going into Music City to land a record deal and I feel like their stories are very aspirational and really, really Americana.”

Nashville will air in the Fridays at 9PM ET/PT time slot, immediately following broadcasts of The Search for the Next Great American Band, Fox’s new recently announced American Idol-like reality competition series that will do just what its overly wordy title implies and air Fridays at 8PM ET/PT.