9-1-1 Fans Think There Will Be a Crossover With Nashville Spinoff

9-1-1: Nashville hasn’t even premiered yet, but fans are already hoping there are crossovers being filmed with the OG series.

Oliver Stark fueled rumors that 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Nashville will be filming together sooner rather than later when he shared an Instagram post on Sunday, August 3, writing, “6 Nashville Miles for breakfast.” The social media upload included a video of Stark, 34, running in the city and he added a smirking devil emoji as well.

Both ABC shows are currently filming as viewers await the premiere of the highly anticipated spinoff. The Nashville version is set to star Chris O’Donnell, Jessica Capshaw, LeAnn Rimes and Kimberly Williams-Paisley.

Cocreator Tim Minear was previously asked whether 9-1-1 stars — mainly from the Lone Star iteration — will make cameos on the Nashville spinoff, to which he told TVLine in November 2024, “I have no current plans for that. But it’s not impossible!”

The 9-1-1 universe originated with the OG series, which premiered on Fox in 2018. It followed the professional and personal lives of Los Angeles first responders with stars Angela Bassett, Peter Krause, Aisha Hinds, Oliver Stark, Connie Britton and Kenneth Choi. Fox canceled the series in 2023, which allowed ABC to swoop in and renew the show that is currently still airing on the network.

9-1-1 then expanded with 9-1-1: Lone Star, which followed a New York City firefighter (played by Rob Lowe) who relocated to Texas while trying to balance his job alongside his personal issues. Liv Tyler, Ronen Rubinstein, Rafael L. Silva, Sierra McClain, Jim Parrack, Natacha Karam, Brian Michael Smith, Julian Works and Gina Torres made up the rest of the cast.

By 2023, 9-1-1: Lone Star was renewed for its fifth and final season after remaining on Fox. Cocreators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Minear, meanwhile, shifted their focus to the Nashville spinoff.

“Tim Minear and I are working on a new spinoff that we’re actually writing, and that we hope to get on the air next fall. Sadly, we all love Lone Star, but the financials just didn’t work,” Murphy, 59, told Variety in October 2024. “It’s a Disney company that was on a Fox network, and it just was never going to work. And we had a long run of it.”

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He continued: “So now we’re going to launch a new show in a new city that I can’t name, but it’s fun. And 9-1-1 moved to ABC and suddenly became, I think, the biggest show on Thursday night. They obviously have an appetite for that, so we’re going to give them another one that I really love.”

The president of Disney Television Group, Craig Erwich, also recently teased what fans can expect from the newest iteration.

“I think that the 9-1-1 team are truly the masters of event-izing television, the way that bee-nado kicked off 9-1-1 last year,” Erwich told Deadline in May. “They have a really special event planned for 9-1-1: Nashville, and although we haven’t discussed [crossovers], I think it’s an incredible opportunity that I’m sure at some point we’ll figure out how to capitalize on. What 9-1-1’s been able to do, it’s really a master class in television, which is consistently event-izing that show to keep it fresh after all these many years, my hat’s off to Tim and Ryan for that.”

9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Nashville airs on ABC October 9.