I'm Begging of You, Please Set Your DVRs For NBC's Adaptation Of 'Jolene'
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When first reported earlier this year, NBC’s development deal with Dolly Parton was said to be for “uplifting” TV movies “the whole family” could enjoy. The first project they announced, an adaptation of “Coat of Many Colors,” seemed to fit that description. Like much of Parton’s earlier music, it’s an autobiographical story about a god-fearing family who manages to do just fine with very little money and a whole lot of love.
But NBC has just revealed its next project under the development deal, and it’s decidedly less wholesome. The network will base its next TV movie on “Jolene,” a song about some floozy who once tried to steal Dolly’s man. The nerve!