ABC‘s fall 2025 schedule has a 8 PM – 10 PM 9-1-1 block on Thursdays with the mothership sequence and the most recent spinoff, 9-1-1: Nashville, starring Chris O’Donnell. Like its 9-1-1 predecessors — and in typical Ryan Murphy vogue — the rookie is predicted to start out with a bang, Craig Erwich, president, Disney Tv Group, informed Deadline, calling 9-1-1: Nashville, the one new ABC sequence for subsequent season up to now, “an enormous precedence.”
The scheduling has potential crossovers written throughout it; one thing 9-1-1 franchise’s govt producer Murphy completed with 9-1-1 and his different ABC sequence, Physician Odyssey, this season.
“I believe that the 9-1-1 group are actually the masters of event-izing tv, the way in which that be-nado kicked off 9-1-1 final yr,” Erwich mentioned. “They’ve a very particular occasion deliberate for 9-1-1: Nashville, and though we haven’t mentioned [crossovers], I believe it’s an unimaginable alternative that I’m positive in some unspecified time in the future we’ll determine capitalize on. What the 9-1-1‘s been in a position to do, it’s actually a grasp class in tv, which is persistently event-izing that present to maintain it contemporary in any case these a few years, my hat’s off to [showrunner] Tim {Minear] and Ryan for that.”
The mothership 9-1-1 delivered a shocker this spring, with male lead Peter Krause‘s Bobby Nash dying because of a chemical lab leak, leaving his spouse, Athena (Angela Bassett) and his group devastated. Erwuch shared his ideas concerning the plot twist as a viewer and as an govt who needed to log off on it.
“As a viewer, it was extremely emotional. He’s a beloved character, and there was a lot grist for the mill for Angela Bassett, who I believed gave such an unimaginable efficiency in each the episode the place he died and the funeral,” he mentioned.
“In the end, it’s concerning the inventive, and it was a choice that Tim Minear got here to us with, and we supported him, as we all the time do. It was a very nice night time of tv that created a large quantity — not only a viewing, however actually social dialog. And I believe it’ll give us a whole lot of momentum going into Thursdays subsequent yr. And it’ll be a fantastic lead off for 9-1-1 Nashville, which shall be an enormous precedence for us.”
9-1-1: Nashville is an motion procedural about heroic first responders, in addition to their household saga of energy and glamour set in Tennessee. It stars O’Donnell as Captain Don Sharpe, Jessica Capshaw, LeAnn Rimes and Kimberly Williams-Paisley. 9-1-1: Nashville is produced by twentieth Tv in affiliation with Ryan Murphy Tv. Murphy, Minear and Rashad Raisani will function govt producers and writers, with O’Donnell, Brad Buecker, Brad Falchuk and Bassett additionally govt producing.
