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    The Nine New TV Shows We’ll Be Watching Next Season

    By | Yahoo! TV – Thu, May 17, 2012 12:58 PM PDT
    "Nashville" (ABC, Wednesdays at 10 PM)
    Connie Britton! We fell in love with her on “Friday Night Lights” and that love only grew with “American Horror Story,” so her starring role here makes this country-music soap an automatic “yes” for us. Britton plays an aging country star forced to pair up with a vapid young starlet (Hayden Panettiere, coming off like an even-trashier Miley Cyrus) to salvage her career. (Well, we already know Britton can deliver a Southern twang.) Yeah, the young-pup-vs.-old-veteran conflict is a little played out, but the Nashville setting adds some fresh juice to it. And we’ll tune in just on the off-chance that we get to see Connie smack the crap out of Hayden.



    "The New Normal" (NBC, Tuesdays at 9:30 PM)
    Ryan Murphy took time out of his busy schedule running “Glee” and “American Horror Story” to create this likable comedy about a gay couple (Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha) who enlist a daydreaming single mom (Georgia King) to be their surrogate. It has that snappy, fresh new-Ryan-Murphy-show smell (you know, before he loses interest and it all goes to hell), and Ellen Barkin looks poised to resurrect her career by channeling "Horror Story's" Jessica Lange as the single mom’s delightfully bitter grandma. Any show that features NeNe Leakes delivering a verbal beatdown to Ellen Barkin gets a thumbs-up from us.

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