Nation music followers are getting an early vacation reward! Tanya Tucker is ready to star within the film A Nashville Nation Christmas, which can premiere Monday, Dec. 12, at 8 p.m. ET through Paramount Community, with a simulcast on CMT.
Tucker portrays a rustic music singer who’s overwhelmed along with her work on an over-the-top Hollywood manufacturing and seeks respite by retreating to her grandmother’s Tennessee farm. Nonetheless, she additionally finds much-needed reconnection on a number of ranges, from rekindling a romance with an ex-lover, returning to her personal musical roots, and discovering a novel familial bond when she realizes three kids who’ve outsmarted the native foster care system are as an alternative residing on the household’s property.
Along with Tucker, the solid consists of Keith Carradine, Ana Oritz and Olivia Sanabia. Tucker additionally serves as an government producer on the mission, alongside Stephanie Slack, Margret Huddleston, Ali Spuck and Kristofer McNeeley.
“It’s wonderful that after 50 years on this enterprise, I get to see my goals change into actuality! And being a part of A Nashville Nation Christmas is certainly certainly one of them,” Tucker mentioned in an announcement. “I’ve at all times wished to do extra appearing, and it was a present from the great Lord when this position got here alongside. I can’t wait for everybody to benefit from the film this season.”
The movie was produced by Andrew Gernhard and Dustin Rikert, and directed by Ashley Williams. For MTV Leisure Studios, government producers embrace Trevor Rose, Leslie Fram, Amal Baggar, Andrew Lutin and Donny Hugo Herran.
An encore presentation of A Nashville Nation Christmas will air Sunday, Dec. 25, at 11 a.m. ET on CMT.
The romantic vacation film is the newest movie mission for two-time CMA Award winner Tucker, who lately teamed with Brandi Carlile for the documentary The Return of Tanya Tucker, which chronicles Tucker’s 5 many years within the music trade, in addition to the making of her Grammy-winning album Whereas I’m Livin’ (produced by Carlile and Shooter Jennings). Through the years, Tucker has additionally appeared in a number of TV films and sequence, together with 1979’s The Rebels and 1981’s The Love Boat. In 2005, she starred in and served as government producer for the truth sequence Tuckerville.
Watch the official trailer for A Nashville Nation Christmas beneath: