SYNOPSIS:

After his divorce is final TOM O’REILLY is left total control over the business TOM-CAT CATERING, of Nashville. Having cashed-out his former wife CATLIN’S interest in their settlement, which is inclusive of alimony. Free from violating the constraints of his marriage vows that he's incapable of adhering to, he's driven to pursue an impetuous appetite for womanizing leading him deeper into the labyrinth of a vice-ridden lifestyle. Finally, accepting his misjudgments brought about by his philandering behavior he is now forced into taking responsibility for the violations of trust committed against Catlin and their daughter SKYE HIGH RICH that cost him his marriage and lost of their respect. Coming to grips with the possibility of losing his business due to his neglect and gambling debts he seeks Catlin’s help. Still in love with her, and she having deep feeling for him as well, she agrees to return taking-over management of the business while contemplating a possible reconciliation. Selfishly she realizes if Tom-Cat Catering goes bankrupt her monthly alimony payments would cease. Due to high employee turn-over Tom has resorted to hiring illegal aliens, such as DANNY OKORIE, from Nigeria; and, BRUCE LEE WONG from Hong Kong, who both moonlight as stand-up comics in the evenings. His longest employed driver BILLY JOE-BOB, a redneck hillbilly loser from the sticks who grew-up working for his father (a moonshiner) in his still. He saw his first movie Star Wars at age twelve and ever since believes he's a Jedi Knight protected by the powers of “the force.” Having just lost a driver he hires the walk-in P.J. Proby, a washed-up country singer and songwriter who twenty years earlier had a promising recording career before abusing drugs and alcohol and disappeared. Now cleaned-up he returns to Nashville from self imposed exile in an attempt to recapture the limelight after trashing his career years earlier. Tom’s trampy daughter Skye, like her mother reverted to using her mother’s maiden name, is his unreliable fifth driver. At nineteen Skye is an aspiring country singer and songsmith having just delivered a demo disk with three newly penned songs to a major country music producer, who signs her to contract to produce an album. She has two months to write and arrange six new songs before cutting an album. Skye, with the help and guidance of her mother, is trying to cope with the pressures imposed by time constraints of her contract and questions her artistic abilities to perform the writing requirements in time. Struggling to keep all the catering wagons manned with drivers Tom takes delivery of a sixth vehicle and desperately needs another driver. Tom feels his luck is changing when HOLLY ROCKET, shows-up seeking employment having just arrived in Nashville from Austin, Texas. With Catlin’s capable management the mess created by Tom’s neglect is slowly being ironed-out and debts being paid. And with Tom working hard at changing his ways when unwittingly he’s smitten by the tall attractive blond blue-eyed lackadaisical Holly Rocket, a pole-dancer, sometimes stripper, and blues singer with a body that won’t quit on her 5-11” sexy frame. Alerted instinctively by the dangers Holly poses due to Tom’s infatuation with her, Catlin seeks to block her employment, but is overruled by Tom. Her guidance and employment recommendation by Tom's insistence to hire Holly, Catlin resorts to marking her territory in an attempt to defuse and stifle any relationship from blossoming between Tom and Holly before it gets started. -END- END OF TV PILOT (S01E01)

TOM CAT'N NASHVILLE (TV PILOT)