Can Nashville's Deacon Ever Forgive His Dad? Charles Esten, EP Preview Finale

The bourbon bottle Deacon found in his father’s car and hurled into the night in last week’s Nashville might as well have been a bomb, for all the damage it will cause for the Claybourne men. The revelation that Gideon, Deacon’s estranged father and fellow recovering alcoholic, is drinking again pretty much obliterates the men’s […]

Nashville's Charles Esten Forecasts Deacon's First Post-Rayna Date

Ladies and gentlemen, Nashville‘s Deacon Claybourne is officially back on the market. And in tonight’s episode (CMT, 9/8c), the Highway 65 chief goes on his first date since Rayna’s death last season — an occasion for mixed feelings, star Charles Esten says, if ever there were one. “It’s a horrifically hard position he’s in right now,” […]

Nashville Finale: Charles Esten, EP Weigh In On That Surprising Kiss

Deacon might’ve been taken mightily aback by the moment in Nashville‘s Season 5 finale when Alyssa kisses him on the lips outside The Bluebird, but co-showrunner Marshall Herskovitz saw it coming from the moment the bespectacled strategy guru first walked into Highway 65. “It was our plan to do that scene all along. From the […]