Nashville
Wednesdays at 10 on ABC

There have already been several pretty good dramas debuting this fall -- "Last Resort," "Vegas" and "Elementary" are a few.

None of them come close to ABC's "Nashville." "Nashville" is simply great. 

The series, debuting tonight at 10, stars Connie Britton ("Friday Night Lights," "American Horror Story") as cash-strapped Rayna Jaymes, a fading country star fighting to revitalize her waning career. The current center of the Nashville universe happens to be young Juliette Barnes (played by Hayden Panettiere from "Heroes"), a hateful, manipulative little schemer who out-draws and out-sells Rayna to the point that Rayna's own record company is ready to toss her away.

It gets nasty, folks.

What a stroke of luck: Lifetime just happens to have a repeat of their original movie "Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy" on tonight's schedule. They were rushing yesterday to do a few updates to the film, which stars Hayden Panettiere as the American accused of murdering her roommate. The real Amanda Knox was acquitted in Italy yesterday and released from prison.

The movie airs tonight at 9 p.m. on Lifetime.

I guess I can understand why those representing Amanda Knox were trying to stop Lifetime from airing "Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy' (9 tonight). After watching the movie, I can't decide if Knox is guilty or crazy or both. I sure don't see her as innocent.

Of course, it's a movie and we've watched enough of them to know filmmakers always take liberties. In fact, in a CYA move, Lifetime is airing an hour-long documentary "Beyond the Headlines: Amanda Knox" at 11, right after the movie, that includes Amanda's mother, father, friends, investigators and legal types discussing the case. (And, apparently, a murder scene has been cut to appease the families.)

So, we should just think about it as a piece of entertainment, and as far as that goes "Amanda Knox" is pretty good. It's pretty fair too. Although it leaves one with a sense that there was enough reasonable doubt to avoid conviction, it doesn't let Knox or the others convicted off the hook. This is a complicated case with a lot of unanswered questions, yet you're left with a sense that you've been shown all that's known and left to make up your own mind.