Latest in Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings

This once-proud category fell on hard times when the networks abandoned the format, and increasingly cable outlets did too. HBO and Netflix have kept it alive, the latter finding safe harbor here the past three years with an anthology series of 'movies' from its Black Mirror franchise, which was finally ruled…

Netflix’s Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings anthology series, released last November, featured eight installment, each inspired by a Parton song. During a PaleyFest LA panel discussion about the series, executive producers Parton and Sam Haskell were asked whether there will be a second season. “Netflix wants to continue…

“Jolene, I’m begging of you, please don’t take my man — please don’t take him just because you can.” That gut-wrenching lyric from Dolly Parton’s classic 1970s hit gets a new spin when Julianne Hough embodies the auburn-haired homewrecker whose “beauty is beyond compare” and with whom the narrator simply “cannot…

Oscar winners Melissa Leo and Ray McKinnon and Emmy winners Jessica Collins, Camryn Manheim, Timothy Busfield, and Patricia Wettig are among 19 new castings for Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings, an anthology based on the stories and inspirations behind Parton’s most beloved songs. New and classic Parton music will score…