'Without a Trace's' Eric Close Joins ABC Drama Pilot 'Nashville'

Former "Without any Trace" star Eric Close is headed to "Nashville."The actor, whose credits include FX's "American Horror Story," remains attracted onto co-star round the ABC drama pilot from "Thelma & Louise" scribe Callie Khouri, "The Hollywood Reporter" knows.Your family cleaning cleaning soap, set in the backdrop in the Nashville music scene, involves one star at her peak and also the other growing. Close may have Teddy, the loyal and handsome husband in the so far uncast 40-year-old Nashville celebrity Rayna. "Heroes'" Hayden Panettiere may have Juliette, growing star with whom Rayna teams around the tour as her album sales are fighting.Khouri and R.J. Cutler will write and executive result in the drama project, which arises from ABC Art galleries, Lionsgate and Gaylord Entertainment. The latter's Steve Buchanan assists becoming an executive producer, with Cutler pointing the pilot.Close carried out Hugo Langdon, the husband to Jessica Lange's Constance, on FX's "American Horror Story." He's repped by Gersh, Untitled Entertainment and Sutton, Barth. The Hollywood Reporter