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"Jonathan Jackson has joined ABC&amp;#039;s musical pilot Nashville. The actor - who has appeared on ABC soap General Hospital since 1993 - will play bad boy musician Avery, according to Deadline. Nashville will focus on the eponymous city&amp;#039;s music scene, with Jackson&amp;#039;s character described as an &amp;quot;aspiring songwriter&amp;quot;. Jackson previously played Kyle Reese on Fox drama Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and also appeared in 2002 Al Pacino film Insomnia. The Nashville pilot has been written by Thelma &amp;amp; Louise scribe Callie Khouri and will be directed by RJ Cutler. Other drama pilots under consideration at ABC include Marc Cherry&amp;#039;s Devious Maids, Last Resort from The Shield creator Shawn Ryan and a remake of Dutch series Penoza. &amp;gt; Chris Egan joins ABC pilot Beauty and the Beast "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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