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Upfronts 2012: Watch previews of ABC’s ‘Nashville’ and ‘Red Widow’

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Politics and country music go hand in hand in ‘Nashville,’ the ABC drama set to debut this fall.

Connie Britton is back on a regular series where we presume she won’t end up as a ghost by the end of the first season, as she did in ‘American Horror Story.’ This time she’s past-her-prime country singer Rayna James looking to reignite her career by teaming with young upstart Juliette Barnes, played by Hayden Panettiere, on a tour. Of course, the women don’t get along. At all.

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Meanwhile, James’ powerful father, played by Powers Boothe, is looking to push her husband for mayor of Nashville. A move the singer isn’t pleased about. At all.

VIDEO: Watch 2012 TV Previews

‘Thelma & Louise’ screenwriter Callie Khouri created the series, which features documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler as executive producer. It will air at 10 p.m. Wednesdays.

American television raids Dutch TV once again for ‘Red Widow,’ an adaptation of the series ‘Penoza.’ (Dutch TV previously gave us the basis for AMC’s ‘The Killing.’)

The ABC drama stars Radha Mitchell as a widowed mother out to protect her three children against the men responsible for husband’s death. So she takes on the drug underworld as well as the FBI in her quest to clear her husband’s name and stop the bad guys, including her husband’s former business partners.

The series, adapted for U.S. television by ‘Twilight’ screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, also stars Wil Traval, Erin Moriarty, Lee Tergesen and Mido Hamada.

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‘Red Widow’ will join the schedule midseason.

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— Patrick Kevin Day

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