9-1-1 Spinoff Set in Nashville to Air on ABC After Lone Star Cancellation

Another 9-1-1 spinoff is set to air during the 2025-26 TV season.

The popular Ryan Murphy series will be getting the spinoff treatment, and this time, the first responders will be in Nashville, Deadline reported on Thursday, Feb. 20. ABC ordered 9-1-1: Nashville, straight-to-series, meaning the show will skip the pilot phase and instead go into production for the first season.

The new series is written and executive produced by the franchise’s co-creators Murphy and Tim Minear, as well as 9-1-1: Lone Star showrunner Rashad Raisani. Co-creator of the first two 9-1-1  series, Brad Falchuk and 9-1-1 star Angela Bassett, will also be serving as executive producers.

Bob Rains, executive director of the Tennessee Entertainment Commission, told the Nashville Tennessean, the team was “very excited” having the series in Nashville. “They really felt like Nashville was the right place to have the next one after Austin. We’ve been extremely supportive with them in conversations and working with our partners at the Visitors and Convention Corp. and the mayor’s office.”

Rains said he’s “under the impression from initial conversations” that active principal photography will begin this May.

“The big thing about a production like this is it is great for workforce development. These are high-quality, long-term jobs that come with a TV series. It gives people in our community the real opportunity to train on a professional production set.”

“A TV series like this will go out to 500-plus vendors across the city,” he continued. “The show ‘Nashville‘ used 500 to 1,000 vendors on each season. And because this is ‘9-1-1: Nashville,’ it’s also a good tool for tourism.”

The Thursday announcement follows reports by Variety that there were conversations about a spinoff.

“Tim Minear and I are working on a new spinoff that we’re actually writing, and that we hope to get on the air next fall,” Murphy told Variety in October. “Sadly, we all love Lone Star, but the financials just didn’t work. It’s a Disney company that was on a Fox network, and it just was never going to work. And we had a long run of it.”

However, after Lone Star premiered in 2020, a second spinoff was discussed, and several locations were considered — including Las Vegas and Hawaii, per a Deadline October 2024 report. Eventually, the series shifted to the South. Deadline reported that Nashville was the front-runner because of a proposed tax credit the production was offered.

The plot and casting of the new series have not been revealed. But 9-1-1: Lone Star follows the work and personal lives of a team of first responders.

9-1-1: Lone Star was canceled after its fifth season by FOX in September 2024. The popular procedural drama was led by Rob Lowe and starred Ronen Rubinstein and Gina Torres. The last episode aired on Feb. 3.

Meanwhile, the original series is in its eighth season and stars Bassett, Peter Krause, Oliver Stark, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Guzman, Aisha Hinds, Kenneth Choi and Gavin McHugh.

9-1-1 season 8 airs on Thursdays at 8 PM ET on ABC. Both 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Lone Star are available to stream on Hulu.