9-1-1: Nashville
American television series (2025–present)
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9-1-1: Nashville is an American procedural drama television series which premiered on ABC on October 9, 2025.[1] It is the second spin-off of the 9-1-1 franchise, following 9-1-1: Lone Star, which concluded in February 2025. The series is created by Ryan Murphy, Tim Minear, and Rashad Raisani, with Brad Falchuk and Angela Bassett also serving as executive producers.
- Ryan Murphy
- Tim Minear
- Rashad Raisani
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| Genre | Procedural drama |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 18 |
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| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 42–45 minutes |
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| Network | ABC |
| Release | October 9, 2025 – present |
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In March 2026, the series was renewed for a second season.[2]
Premise
As with 9-1-1, the series follows the personal and professional lives of first responders and 911 dispatchers. The series primarily follows the staff of Station 113 of the Nashville Fire Department and their families, including Captain Donald "Don" Hart (Chris O'Donnell), his wealthy wife Blythe (Jessica Capshaw), and Cammie Raleigh (Kimberly Williams-Paisley)—a Nashville 911 dispatcher who is Blythe's sister-in-law.
Cast and characters
Main
- Chris O'Donnell as Captain Donald "Don" Hart, a veteran firefighter and rodeo rider who leads the 113 Nashville firehouse with his son Ryan[3]
- Jessica Capshaw as Blythe Hart, Don's wife and Ryan's mother, who comes from wealth[4]
- Kimberly Williams-Paisley as Cammie Raleigh, a 911 dispatcher, Blythe's sister-in-law. Her late husband was Blythe's brother.[5]
- LeAnn Rimes as Dixie Bennings, Blue's mother and Don's ex-girlfriend, who is a singer[5]
- Michael Provost as Ryan Hart, Don and Blythe's son, who is a firefighter lieutenant and a "modern-day cowboy"[6]
- Juani Feliz as Roxie Alba, a firefighter who is an adrenaline junkie and a former trauma surgeon[6]
- Hailey Kilgore as Taylor Thompson, a firefighter at the 113 firehouse who is also a singer[6]
- Hunter McVey as Blue Bennings, a "haunted bad-boy" type and stripper who becomes a firefighter cadet at the 113 firehouse after helping a crashed party bike. He is Don and Dixie's son,[6] and Ryan's half-brother.[7]
- Ryan Philippe (season 2)[8]
Recurring
- Gregory Alan Williams as Harold Foster, the chief of the Nashville Fire Department[9]
- MacKenzie Porter as Samantha Hart, an ER doctor and Ryan's wife[9]
- Tim Matheson as Edward Raleigh, Blythe’s wealthy father and a city council member[9]
Guest stars
- Kane Brown as himself[10]
- Oliver Stark as Evan "Buck" Buckley, a firefighter from the LAFD 118
- Ryan Guzman as Edmundo "Eddie" Diaz, a firefighter from the LAFD 118 and Buck's best friend
- Adhir Kalyan as Stuart Pearson
- Julie Clairvallais as Jacqueline
- Kristin Cavallari as herself
- Anna Akana as Elena
- Freddie O'Connell as himself
- Anna Lore as Tilda
- Noah Cyrus as herself
Episodes
| No. | Title [11] | Directed by | Written by | Original release date [11] | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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| 1 | "Pilot" | Bradley Buecker | Ryan Murphy & Tim Minear & Rashad Raisani | October 9, 2025 | 1JUM01 | 3.75[12] |
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Rodeo rider Don Hart is the captain of Station 113, which he runs with son Ryan. They run into Don's secret son, Blue, to whom Don offers a job. Blue's mother, former back-up singer Dixie Bennings, hatches a scheme to get revenge on Don for staying with his wife, Blythe, and to get money for her vocal polyps surgery. | ||||||
| 2 | "Hell and High Water" | Bradley Buecker | Ryan Murphy & Tim Minear & Rashad Raisani | October 16, 2025 | 1JUM02 | 3.18[13] |
| 3 | "Forces of Nature" | Bradley Buecker | Ryan Murphy & Tim Minear & Rashad Raisani | October 23, 2025 | 1JUM03 | 3.02[14] |
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The crew grapple with emotions as Don lies comatose in the hospital, but are soon called to the site of a tornado that touched down near an Airstream trailer, where Blue and Ryan have to work together. After encountering Dixie visiting Don in his hospital room, Blythe kicks her out and has an emotional moment with Don, and he regains consciousness. The tornado is discovered to have lifted the trailer in the air and left it hanging from the Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge, with a young boy trapped inside. Ryan ascends to rescue the boy, but does not have enough length of safety rope to reach him and the boy is trapped behind a refrigerator. Don, having left the hospital against medical advice, arrives on the scene and gives Ryan advice over the radio as the trailer is about to fall. Ryan ties off his safety rope to the refrigerator, and he and the boy climb on the refrigerator as the trailer plummets to the deck of the bridge, and then brought down safely, with the boy reunited with his family and Ryan reunited with Don and the rest of the crew. Blythe later visits Dixie and they have a tense exchange about Don. | ||||||
| 4 | "Bad Case of the Blues" | Chad Lowe | Jamie Kessler | October 30, 2025 | 1JUM04 | 3.03[15] |
| 5 | "Lost Children" | Tessa Blake | Jim Garvey | November 6, 2025 | 1JUM05 | 3.33[16] |
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Blue is taking his firefighter exam, but at the finish line, his anger towards Don and Dixie boils over and he storms out, refusing to talk with his parents. Even Ryan is unable to convince him. Emergencies include a desperate father abducting his children and threatening to kill them along with himself and a Jane Doe discovered by pair of fishermen. Finally, as Blue tries to get his old job back, he notices a drunken woman entering a car. He goes after her and calls 911. The woman passes out on the wheel and is about to hit children crossing the street. Blue drives in front of the car to stop it, causing his car to flip over and catch fire. 113 extract Blue out of the car, and in the hospital he opens to Don and Dixie and Don informs him his brave act and that he basically completed the exam, allowed him to officially join Nashville fire department. | ||||||
| 6 | "Great Southern Manors" | Chad Lowe | Marta Gené Camps | November 13, 2025 | 1JUM06 | 2.70[17] |
| 7 | "You've Been Boarded" | John J. Gray | Tyler Hisel | January 8, 2026 | 1JUM07 | N/A |
| 8 | "All Hands" | Marita Grabiak | Britt Wilkinson | January 15, 2026 | 1JUM08 | N/A |
| 9 | "Pipe Dreams" | Yangzom Brauen | Eli Talbert | January 22, 2026 | 1JUM09 | N/A |
| 10 | "Let It R.I.P." | Keith Tripler | Alie Turfe | January 29, 2026 | 1JUM10 | N/A |
| 11 | "Don Begins" | Chad Lowe | Jamie Kessler | February 26, 2026 | 1JUM11 | N/A |
| 12 | "Spirit of the Games" | Dawn Wilkinson | Rashad Raisani | March 5, 2026 | 1JUM16 | N/A |
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Nashville hosts the American Firefighting Games, featuring teams from cities such as Boston, Kenosha, and Los Angeles. The Los Angeles team is represented by Evan "Buck" Buckley and Eddie Diaz from the 118. Ryan and Don are initially slated to represent Nashville, but Blue is forced to step in to replace Don on short notice after he injures his hand while training. During the ensuing events, the Los Angeles and Nashville teams develop a bitter rivalry, Boston's team constantly tries to cheat, while the Kenosha team are underdogs who don't take the competition as seriously because they've never done well. In the partner relay event, Kenosha team member Carl pulls a hamstring and collapses, prompting Ryan and Buck to set aside their differences and help him across the finish line; this results in Kenosha winning the race, while Los Angeles and Nashville tie for first in the final standings and agree to share the championship. This is the conclusion of a two-part crossover that began on 9-1-1. | ||||||
| 13 | "Small Potatoes" | John J. Gray | Jim Garvey | March 12, 2026 | 1JUM13 | N/A |
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The team helps a father and his daughter dangling in their car on a cliff. Later, the father comes into the firehouse to offer Taylor the opportunity to work with a famous producer, Victoria Vamp. On another call, Roxie and Taylor help a teenage girl with removing a potato growing in her vagina. The parents of the teenager try to sue Roxie. A third call comes in of a man falling from scaffolding and damaging his spine. After creative differences, Taylor chooses to not work with Victoria. Finally, at the court hearing, Roxie helps the teenage girl after assessing that she is suffering from an ectopic pregnancy and her parents drop all charges. | ||||||
| 14 | "Hard Knox" | Christine Khalafian | Annie Fawke | March 19, 2026 | 1JUM12 | N/A |
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Blythe is holding her annual equine therapy for firefighters, but her headliner drops out, so Blue suggests his mother to fill in. On a call to an accountant’s office, the team discovers that the manager has been sitting dead at her desk for days with no one noticing. Ryan and Sam decide to go to Knoxville for the weekend after their couples therapist suggest they spend more time together. While at the gala, Dixie gets horribly drunk and ends up spending the night at Don and Blythe’s manor to sleep it off, where she reveals she got pregnant on purpose to make Don stay. | ||||||
| 15 | "Bad Girls" | Yangzom Brauen | Marta Gené Camps | March 26, 2026 | 1JUM14 | N/A |
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A makeup influencer, Elena, is working with Kristin Cavallari on a product rollout when a face mask gets stuck to her face. The team works together to rescue her and is thanked with PR packages. Ryan wants to surprise Sam at work with the makeup, but she has lied about being at work and has turned her location services off on her phone. On another call, a wife pushes her husband off a ladder because she thinks he is cheating on her, accidentally sending him through a window. Impaled on the broken glass, he reveals that he was not and has been truthful. The team also responds to a house fire; dispatch informs them that the house has one resident, a woman named Susan. Susan mentions that she has a son, Jared. Upon re-entering the house in search of her son, they find a grown, malnourished man, who reveals to the team that he has been locked up for a long time. It's also revealed that Jared started the fire to escape his mother. Elena DMs Roxie, and they possibly go on a date. Ryan confronts Sam about her whereabouts, and she reveals she has a deformity in her uterus and is pregnant. Dixie gives an ultimatum to Blue about his birthday party and kicks him out of the house when Blue decides to go to Don and Blythe's for his birthday. | ||||||
| 16 | "Love to Death" | John J. Gray | Eli Talbert | April 2, 2026 | 1JUM15 | N/A |
| 17 | "Saboteurs" | John J. Gray | Jim Garvey & Jamie Kessler | April 30, 2026 | 1JUM17 | TBD |
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Dixie gets advice from her grandmother and writes a diss-track about Blythe. The 113 responds to a woman choking on an engagement ring. On another call, the men who were dynamite fishing in a previous episode sabotage the break lines on a fork lift which starts crushing one of their coworkers. Roxie keeps sabotaging her meetings and dates with Elena. Dixie’s song comes between Blythe and Don’s marriage as she keeps making songs about an anonymous woman. | ||||||
| 18 | "Intrusive Thoughts" | Chad Lowe | Rashad Raisani & Marta Gené Camps | May 7, 2026 | 1JUM18 | TBD |
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Noah Cyrus is rehearsing for an upcoming concert and the whole crew collapses from chlorine gas. Blue is moving into a new apartment. Sam goes for her 10-week checkup and learns that she has a tumor growing. Blythe drives herself mad trying to figure out who is spilling secrets. Cammie talks a woman out of jumping off a bridge. The crew responds to a runaway lawn mower and a woman holding it back to stop it from running over her baby, horribly burning her hands in the process. Blythe goes to confront Dixie and they get into a physical fight. | ||||||
Production
Development
Following the conclusion of 9-1-1: Lone Star, ABC announced a straight-to-series order for 9-1-1: Nashville in February 2025.[18] The decision to set the series in Nashville was influenced by the city's distinctive musical culture and scenic setting. On March 5, 2026, ABC renewed the series for a second season.[2]
Casting
On March 17, 2025, Chris O'Donnell was announced to be starring in the series.[3] The following month, Jessica Capshaw had joined the cast.[4] In May 2025, LeAnn Rimes and Kimberly Williams-Paisley were added to the cast. [5] In June 2025, Hailey Kilgore, Michael Provost, Juani Feliz and Hunter McVey were announced as series regulars.[6] In August 2025, Gregory Alan Williams, MacKenzie Porter, and Tim Matheson joined cast in recurring capacities.[9]
On April 20, 2026, Ryan Phillippe joined the cast as a series regular for the second season.[8]
Release
Reception
Critical response
Joel Keller of Decider appreciated that 9-1-1: Nashville embraces its absurdity, starting with a tornado-related emergency and placing characters in improbable situations, and complimented the show for being "entertainingly silly," noting that the 9-1-1 franchise's willingness to be ridiculous gives it freedom to explore unusual scenarios.[20] Aramide Tinubu of Variety emphasized that 9-1-1: Nashville maintains the franchise's mix of emergency action and character-driven drama, highlighting the tornado and other crises alongside family tensions in the Hart household. He noted the series' fast pace, engaging plot turns, and feel-good moments of people helping each other, and said that the show delivers what franchise fans expect, adding a "country flair" and new characters.[21]
Ratings
The premiere of 9-1-1: Nashville drew 12.4 million total viewers across ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+, and digital platforms after seven days, marking a 231% increase from its same-day audience of 3.75 million, according to Nielsen Media Research. Excluding encore broadcasts, the episode reached 7.8 million viewers, representing a 108% gain from the same-day figure, and earned a 1.51 rating among adults aged 18–49. On streaming, 9-1-1: Nashville ranked as ABC's second-highest drama premiere after seven days, behind High Potential.[22] After 35 days, total viewership rose to 19.29 million, with 10.44 million excluding encores, and a 2.15 rating among adults 18–49, ranking the series as the No. 1 new broadcast series in that demographic.[23]
The January 29 episode of 9-1-1: Nashville drew its largest multi-platform audience since the series premiere, with 6.99 million viewers after seven days of viewing across ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+, and other digital platforms. The episode achieved a 1.09 rating among adults aged 18–49, representing a 241% increase from its live-plus-same-day rating, while total viewership rose by 82% over the same period. On linear broadcast alone, the episode also set a series high, with 5.79 million viewers and a 0.59 rating in the 18–49 demographic.[24]
| No. | Title | Air date | Rating/share (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) | Ref. |
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| 1 | "Pilot" | October 9, 2025 | 0.3/3 | 3.75 | 0.13 | 1.45 | 0.42 | 5.20 | [12] |
| 2 | "Hell and High Water" | October 16, 2025 | 0.2/3 | 3.18 | 0.17 | 1.69 | 0.40 | 4.87 | [13] |
| 3 | "Forces of Nature" | October 23, 2025 | 0.3/3 | 3.02 | 0.15 | 1.62 | 0.41 | 4.64 | [14] |
| 4 | "Bad Case of the Blues" | October 30, 2025 | 0.3/3 | 3.03 | 0.12 | 1.28 | 0.39 | 4.32 | [15] |
| 5 | "Lost Children" | November 6, 2025 | 0.3/3 | 3.33 | 0.09 | 0.96 | 0.34 | 4.29 | [16] |
| 6 | "Good Southern Manors" | November 13, 2025 | 0.2/3 | 2.70 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | [17] |
