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Dancing With The Stars: Good Luck, Kellie Pickler!

Jeanna D. — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:21:07 +0000

Kellie Pickler competes for the Mirror Ball Trophy tonight on Dancing With The Stars!

Pickler has been impressing us all season with her dance skills and continues to win everyone over with her adorable and genuine personality. The country sweetheart has really perfected her technique over the course of the show, and there are truly times where she seems like a professional dancer. While the competition is tough, she and partner Derek Hough consistently standout to me. Even though the judges generally score the contestants pretty evenly, Kellie seems to be on another level and she is sometimes maybe scrutinized harder than the rest because of her ability.

Pickler will be facing Aly Raisman, Zendaya Coleman, and Jacoby Jones, and the contestants will all perform three dances tonight in hopes of being crowned the winner tomorrow.

Part one of the two-night finale begins tonight at 8/7c on ABC. Tune in and make sure to vote for Kellie!

Good luck, Kellie & Derek… Team Pickler!

You can vote by phone, text, or online…

Kellie and Derek’s phone number: 1-800-868-3401

Text for AT&T customers only: Text “VOTE” to 3401

Nashville Renewed For 2nd Season

Jeanna D. — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:32:31 +0000

Nashville fans received exciting news this week! ABC has renewed the hit drama, and it will be back for another season.

I am a super fan of this show and watch it religiously. The cast, the writing, the music… it’s all so great. I also might be a complete fan girl for Deacon and Rayna!

If you have not checked out the show yet, you really should give it a shot especially if you’re a country music fan.

Congratulations to everyone involved with Nashville! Millions of us can’t wait to watch and hear some more stellar music.

DVR Alert: Nashville Cast on The View 3/27

Jeanna D. — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:14:09 +0000

So let me do a fangirl squeal for my current favorite TV show… Nashville!

The cast of the ABC hit series will be guests on The View this morning. There will be appearances from co-stars Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere as well as musical performances from Charles Esten, Clare Bowen & Sam Palladio, and Jonathan Jackson.

Set your DVRs, fans! The View airs on ABC at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. CT.

Plus, there is an all new episode of Nashville on ABC at 10 p.m. ET./9 p.m. CT.

PS: I’m not-so-patiently waiting for Rayna & Deacon to reunite!

It’s Official: Kellie Pickler & Wynonna Judd on “Dancing With The Stars”

Jeanna D. — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:28:12 +0000

We shared the internet buzz with you yesterday, but this morning Good Morning America made the official cast announcement for ABC’s Dancing With The Stars.

Country stars, Kellie Pickler and Wynonna Judd, will in fact be participating this season!

The always adorable and fun, Pickler, will be paired with Derek Hough, the brother of another country sweetheart, Julianne Hough. Pickler is the first past American Idol contestant to compete on the show.

Meanwhile, vocal powerhouse and 5-time Grammy winner, Judd, will be partnered with Tony Dovolani.

It should be an entertaining season for country music fans. Both pairs are a great match, and I can’t wait to watch!

Kellie Pickler & Wynonna Judd Joining “Dancing With The Stars” Cast?

Jeanna D. — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:15:44 +0000

This season’s cast of ABC’s hit show, Dancing With The Stars, is set to be revealed tomorrow morning on Good Morning America. However, some names have been leaked online and the rumor mill is churning.

According to TMZ and other media sources, country stars, Kellie Pickler and Wynonna Judd, will be among the line-up! Assuming this information is accurate, it will be exciting to watch Pickler and Judd compete on the show.

Stay tuned for the official announcement!

Sarah Darling To Make Second Appearance on The Bachelor

Jeanna D. — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:35:48 +0000

Sarah Darling is set to make her second appearance on a special episode of ABC’s The Bachelor on Tuesday, February 19 on 9 p.m. EST. During “The Bachelor: Sean Tells All Special,” fans will get to see never before seen footage of Darling’s concert in Whitefish, MT where she performed for this season’s bachelor, Sean Lowe, and his date, Lindsey Yenter.

Darling released her EP Home To Me digitally on January 29. Her featured performance on The Bachelor on February 4 increased sales of the title track, “Home To Me,” 220% bringing the total now to over 75,000 copies sold. You can download the single on iTunes: http://bit.ly/RCXsqn.

Darling is currently recording her upcoming album with renowned country producer and musician, Dann Huff.

For more information and tour dates, check out: www.sarahdarling.com. Don’t forget to also follow Sarah on Twitter: @_SarahDarling and Facebook: facebook.com/OfficialSarahDarling.

DVR Alert: Brantley Gilbert and Chris Young Head to Nashville

Jennifer Swirsky — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:43:17 +0000

ABC’s Nashville, that is. The two country music artists are slotted to make cameos on ABC’s newest smash hit musical drama as party goers at a celebratory bash thrown by fictional country music sensation, Juliette Barnes (played by Hayden Panettiere). Brantley Gilbert and Chris Young, who will appear as themselves, attend the party, which is intended to celebrate the success of Barnes’ and Rayna James’ (played by Connie Britton) duet, “Wrong Song”.

The episode featuring Brantley and Chris will air on Wednesday, January 23rd a 10:00 p.m. on ABC.

Catch Up on ABC’s “Nashville” This Weekend

Jennifer Swirsky — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:53:00 +0000

If you haven’t jumped on the “Nashville” bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for?! If your reasoning is that you missed an episode or two and feel as though you are now too far behind, well, fear no more. CMT has the cure to your “Nashville” woes, as it will be airing all six episodes back-to-back this Sunday, January 6th, beginning at 2:00 p.m. EST. So, set aside your day, tune in, and catch up.

New episodes of “Nashville” air on Wednesdays on ABC at 10:00 p.m. EST.

Nashville Is On the Globe

Jennifer Swirsky — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:15:30 +0000

The Golden Globe, that is. This morning, the nominees for the 2013 Golden Globe Awards were announced, and Nashville certainly made a showing; and we mean both “Nashville” the television show and residents of Nashville whose names you might recognize from the world of country music.

In the category of Best Actress, Television Drama, ABC’s “Nashville” was represented by a nomination for Connie Britton (who plays Rayna James in the highly coveted television series). In the category of Best Supporting Actress, Television, ABC’s “Nashville” was again represented by a nomination for Hayden Panettiere (who plays Juliette Barnes). Also getting nods for their involvement in film projects are Keith Urban and Taylor Swift. Keith lent his vocals to the soundtrack for “Act of Valor” with his song “For You,” while Taylor’s “Safe & Sound” was included on “The Hunger Games” soundtrack.

Good luck to the Nashville noms! Tune in on January 13 to see if any of the Golden Globes make their way back to Music City!

REVIEW: Nashville – Looking Back and Moving Forward

Jennifer Swirsky — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:35:54 +0000

That seems to be theme of the week in Music City. Everyone is looking back; remembering, questioning, regretting, and reminiscing their pasts and doing everything in their power to push forward to a better future. How, you may ask?

The return of Juliette’s mother has resulted in Juliette thinking about her childhood, which was filled with painful memories. Clearly Juliette’s mother is not the healthiest of parental units, as she is struggling with addiction and the mood swings that accompany the dependency. However, seeing Juliette witness her mother’s continual downward spirals shows us a deeper, darker side of country music’s sassy starlet. Think Meredith Grey, pre-McDreamy marriage, back when she was dark, twisty, Tequila Mer. That is what we have with Juliette, sans the Patron. Juliette finally decides, after some urging from Deacon, to allow him to step in and talk to her mother — addict to addict. Once Juliette’s mother recognizes that she is not alone and that someone understands her struggles, she agrees to be admitted into rehab … but not before she bids Juliette farewell — with a slap right across the face. And that, therein, was the final straw for Juliette, as she decides to let go of her home and move someplace new … someplace free of her mother and all remnants of her. In Juliette’s words, “anything she touched, I hate.” I’m pretty sure that Juliette is not telling her mother to “keep coming back” like the people in rehab are likely preaching at the end of their group sessions.

Meanwhile, Rayna is hard at work on a commercial because she is desperate for money, and she is attempting to use a song that she and Deacon wrote by changing the lyrics to fit the commercial. However, Deacon will not release the rights to the song because the song’s lyrics mean something to him. Aside from the commercial, in her quest to bring in the bucks, Rayna’s management has an idea to produce a Greatest Hits album. Rayna is not on board with this idea, as she would rather go to the studio and record something new. Obviously Rayna lost her writing partner when she fired Deacon, so she has to begin writing on her own. It actually works out well for her, as her management boasts that they think she actually created something that could be a first single off a new album. Looks like Rayna won’t need that Greatest Hits album after all to bring in the money!

Speaking of money, we find out what Peggy and Teddy’s relationship actually is/was. Oh, by the way, while we are on the topic of Peggy, she was our trivia person from last week, and the actress playing her is Kimberly Williams Paisley — Brad Paisley’s wife! ADHD aside (hey look, something shiny!), Peggy and Teddy were involved in some scheme years ago where they somehow embezzled two million dollars. Peggy is getting nervous because there are auditors starting to sniff around, and she mentions turning themselves into the feds. Teddy asks her to hold off and goes to talk to Rayna’s father, Lamar, the political aficionado with a lot of connections in Nashville. Lamar tells Teddy not to worry about it and focus on the campaign. Fast forward to Lamar meeting up with Peggy and telling her to stay quiet and keep calm — in a most threatening manner.

Let’s quickly backtrack to Deacon, as this guy has barely had his own storyline/drama without the help of Juliette and/or Rayna yet. Until now. Deacon is certainly distraught about his professional break-up with Rayna and, as he performs their songs solo in a bar, a heckler yells out to him that he prefers Rayna’s vocals. When Deacon sees the heckler outside, he ignores the an attempt at an apology, and Deacon lashes out — most likely from pent up aggression with everything surrounding him — and goes Mike Tyson on the heckler in the parking lot, punching him in the face, yet sparing his ear of any bite marks. End scene. It should come as no surprise that when Rayna’s phone rings in the middle of the night, it’s a collect call from the jail asking her to accept charges from Deacon. Considering that Teddy interrogated her earlier in the night about whether she wanted to sleep with Deacon, Rayna hit “2″ to decline the call. Next phone call? You guessed it. Deacon calls Juliette and, in true “what goes around comes around” fashion, Juliette literally bails Deacon out like he figuratively bailed her out.

In other news, there is still that whole Avery, Scarlett, Gunnar thing going on that has absolutely zero correlation to the rest of the happenings in Nashville. Here is the gist in a nutshell: Scarlett and Gunnar get a song to Lady Antebellum; Avery helps out and plays guitar for them as they showcase the song to the record execs; Avery “hijacks” the performance when he gets jealous of the way Scarlett and Gunnar are making eyes at each other; Scarlett gets mad; Avery gets mad; Scarlett professes her undying devotion to Avery and Avery is bull-headed, as usual.

Next week, maybe we will see Juliette start moving forward again with her career and reputation after her mother showed up and set her back; maybe Rayna will move forward with recording a new album; maybe Deacon will move forward in his quest to heal after Rayna broke his heart; maybe Teddy will move forward with his campaign without fear of his shady past coming back to haunt him; maybe Scarlett will move forward with her personal and professional relationships; maybe Avery will move forward and gain some confidence in his relationship. Regardless of who starts moving in a positive direction, one thing holds true — everyone needs to get out of the past soon, because the past is the past for a reason and the future is wide open … especially for a bunch of talented musicians in Music City!

Make sure to check out these tunes from Nashville, Episode 105!

“American Beauty” – Performed by Rayna

“Loving You is the Only Way to Fly” – Performed by Scarlett/Gunnar/Avery

“Fairlane” – Dirty Guv’nahs

“Down in Tennessee” – The Cadillac Black

“Sideshow” – Performed by Deacon

“Yellin’ from the Rooftop” – Performed by Juliette

“Buried Under” – Performed by Rayna