‘9-1-1: Nashville’ Promo Reveals First Look at Ryan Phillipe’s Character
What To Know
- Ryan Phillippe joins 9-1-1: Nashville Season 2 as Detective Kelly.
- A new promo shows him meeting Chris O’Donnell’s Don.
9-1-1: Nashville is expanding its cast in Season 2, premiering on Thursday, October 15, and the first promo offers a look at the newest member.
At a crime scene, Captain Don Hart (Chris O’Donnell) sees Ryan Phillippe‘s character approaching and asks, “Who are you?” The detective introduces himself. Watch the video below. It also includes a look at 9-1-1 Season 10 and Athena (Angela Bassett), now a detective, in the middle of some sort of collapse, promising someone, “We’re coming to you!”
With the introduction of Phillippe’s detective, Kelly, as a series regular, the 9-1-1 spinoff is adding the police element that is present in the original series and was part of the Lone Star. This first exchange with Don could be particularly interesting since when TV Insider spoke with showrunner Rashad Raisani about the Season 1 finale in May, he’d said that it’s possible that Kelly might have crossed paths at one point with the fire captain’s wife, Blythe (Jessica Capshaw), or they’ll at least be “some sparks.”
HD clip of the 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Nashville previews from the new ABC promo. pic.twitter.com/3FnPZb7Y3x
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“He’ll be playing this sort of maverick detective who comes in and he’s kind of a disruptor in a different way, and he’ll get in Don’s craw, but he’ll also have a real affinity and friendship with Ryan [Michael Provost], Don’s son. And it will start almost this weird father-son triangle with somebody else,” teased Raisani.
The showrunner also revealed that with the addition of Kelly, there will be a major arc with a criminal “who’s creating 9-1-1 calamities for our firefighters and our first responders. [With] a criminal element underneath it, the police can get involved and our teams can work together with Ryan Phillippe’s character to get to the bottom of this.”
These attacks are “incredibly biblical in scope and I think a very almost True Detective-y kind of feel for us, which we’re just really excited to see that to go into a bit more of a spookier, creepier place, but still having the big scope that we’re used to and our character dynamics that we’ve really grown into,” Raisani added.
What do you think of this first look at Ryan Phillippe on 9-1-1: Nashville? Let us know in the comments section below.
9-1-1: Nashville, Season 2 Premiere, Thursday, October 15, 9/8c, ABC
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R
And my hope for Det. Kelly & Taylor's 3rd-oldest gospel singing brother, Ofc. Washington (née Thompson)-(Luke James), will work together with the whole entire 113 crew this season for real! 💯
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P
Nashville was so disappointing. Just so hard to watch.
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O
Two women fighting over one man is so Dynasty. And that was made in the 80's. It's gross and lame.
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R
Welcome to the 113 crew, Det. Kelly & behave yourself brother! 😹
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D
Hope this doesn’t mess up the element of the show. Love all the characters
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Now here's a 4-block episode schedule for 911: Nashville's follow-up season with 18 chapters on ABC from mid-October of 2026 to early June of 2027 (7 months and 3 quarters total)! 💯
Block A (Fall/Winter 2026): from Thursday, October 15th to December 3rd, 2026 (5 episodes total)! 💯
1. 10/15/2026
2. 10/22/2026
3. 10/29/2026
4. 11/26/2026
&
5. 12/03/2026
Block B (Winter 2027): from Thursday, January 14th to February 4th, 2027 (4 episodes total)! 💯
6. 01/14/2027
7. 01/21/2027
8. 01/28/2027
&
9. 02/04/2027
Block C (Spring 2027): from Thursday, March 4th to April 1st, 2027 (5 episodes total)! 💯
10. 03/04/2027
11. 03/11/2027
12. 03/18/2027
13. 03/25/2027
&
14. 04/01/2027
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Block D (Spring/Summer 2027): from Thursday, May 13th to June 3rd, 2027
& that's an official dates for the Nashville spinoff's sophomore season (late 2026 - mid 2027)! 😁
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J
Its no 911, but not too bad a show. Got tired of it at beginning after watching first four episodes rerun three times. Need to lose LeAnn Rimes, bad from the get go. Hopefully second season will be better.
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Ryan Phillippe aka Det. Kelly is born! 💯💖☺️
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