COMING IN HOT

Expect four-alarm action and intense family drama as one of TV's most popular franchises heads south for 9-1-1: Nashville

- DAMIAN HOLBROOK

O'Donnell's fireman and father is also a former rodeo rider

BUCKLE UP, MUSIC City. The 9-1-1 franchise is back...and going country. Having wreaked havoc with the L.A.-based mothership and the just-wrapped Lone Star spinoff, überproducer Ryan Murphy has a new first-responder drama, 9-1-1: Nashville. This one is set in the Athens of the South. And it's bringing the same kind of on-brand 9-1-1 disasters that would make Irwin Allen proud.

Williams-Paisley

"We have an Airstream trailer that ends up on top of a bridge and a poor guy on a Segway tour of the city who ends up impaled on a water tower," previews showrunner Rashad Raisani, adding that he's finally getting to stage the splashy water-park crisis he's dreamed of since his time overseeing Lone Star. "We're going to get a bunch of crazy emergencies where people end up in places where they shouldn't be."

Feliz

But while "its DNA, of course, is 9-1-1," Raisani says the spinoff is taking a soapier approach (as well as shooting on location!) to forge its own identity. "There's some Succession...and some Dynasty slipped in there," he offers. "The show begins with an explosive revelation that affects the central dynamic of a character's world. And then we shamelessly use tornadoes to great effect as a metaphor for the storm that has come into these characters' lives."