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‘Nashville’ television drama gets a new life

NEW YORK

The television series “Nashville” is getting a second life.

The CMT network said Friday it will make a fifth season of the music-oriented drama, which had been canceled less than a month ago by ABC.

CMT has ordered 22 new episodes of the show, which corresponds to a typical broadcast television season. CMT would not say when it will begin airing “Nashville.”

There also was no word Friday on how many of the show’s regular cast members will return. The show will have new producers, with “Thirtysomething” creators Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz taking over.

CMT president Brian Philips said the love for the show that fans unleashed upon hearing it was leaving had been overwhelming.

Diamond was jailed for oxycodone use

MADISON, Wis.

Former “Saved by the Bell” star Dustin Diamond tested positive for a painkiller last month in violation of his probation conditions, according to records the Wisconsin Department of Corrections released Friday.

Diamond, 39, who played Screech on the popular 1990s television show about a group of California high-school students, was convicted last year in Wisconsin on charges he stabbed a man during a barroom brawl in Port Washington, just north of Milwaukee, in 2014. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail. He was released in April and placed on probation with conditions that he maintain absolute sobriety and not use any controlled substances or prescription medication without a doctor’s permission.

He was arrested May 25 and spent two days in the Ozaukee County Jail for what corrections officials would describe only as a probation violation.

Associated Press