Connie Britton goes unscripted on Hallmarks The Motherhood

Chances are there’s a Connie Britton character you absolutely adore.Whether it’s Rayna Jaymes on “Nashville,” Tami Taylor on “Friday Night Lights” or, for Gen Xers, Nikki Faber on “Spin City,” Britton is a cherished part of the American TV and film landscape.

There’s just something about her: That voice with a delicate hint of twang in it, that trademark strawberry blond mane, the sense that she’d be your closest confidante if you were lucky enough to have her in your social orbitNow that she’s a mom to a teenager, she’s garnering a new generation of fans, Britton says, joining Alexa on Zoom from her home in LA.“I’ll do a lot of things with kids around my son’s age, and I’m getting a lot of parents saying, ‘I just started watching “Friday Night Lights” with my kids,’” the 58-year-old Britton says with a laugh.

“There’s another generation discovering it, and that’s really fun.”That’s to say nothing of Britton’s chops for dark comedy, like her roles as a gaslighting college dean in 2020’s “Promising Young Woman,” a pampered lifestyle guru in the first season of “The White Lotus” and a therapist-turned-girlfriend in 2014’s “This Is Where I Leave You.”The one version of her we haven’t seen much of is … Connie Britton.For the first time in her career, Britton’s appearing in an unscripted show: Hallmark’s “The Motherhood,” out May 5, in which Britton hosts a six-episode series focusing on building a support system for single mothers, one mom per week.Together with three experts the show dubs “The Neighbor Ladies,” Britton talks to each mom about the particular challenges she’s facing and confers with her experts to come up with a plan to devise supports.

The other moms join in the support group, with the goal of creating a community of friends that’ll last long after the cameras are off.“I don’t watch a lot of reality TV,” Britton admits.“But I watched ‘Queer Eye,’ be...