Connie Britton To Star In Basic steps Nashville

After extended discussions, Friday Evening Lights alumna Connie Britton has closed an offer to star in Basic steps drama pilot Nashville. Compiled by Callie Khouri, directed by R.J. Cutler and created by Lionsgate and ABC Galleries, Nashville is referred to like a family cleaning soap about love, new bands, family, politics and sex set from the backdrop from the Nashville music scene. It focuses on 40-year-old Nashville celebrity Rayna James (Britton) who's stunned to locate that her star is diminishing and her label requires her to synergy with teen sensation Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere) on touror else face losing her very own tour and also the labels promotion of her latest record, whose sales happen to be underwhelming. Further complicating things for Rayna, a married mother of two is always that she's the household’s sole breadwinner. This marks Britton’s go back to broadcast television after lately starring around the first season of Forex’s anthology horror drama American Horror Story. She formerly toplined with Kyle Chandler Friday Evening Lights, reprising her role in the hit Peter Berg movie of the identical title. The drama series, which came from on NBC before moving to DirecTV, gained Britton two Emmy nominations. Around the giant screen Britton, repped by WME and Untitled Entertainment, will next be observed in Friend For that Finish around the globe opposite Keira Knightly and Steve Carell.