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Despite what you may read in the New York Times today, I nor anyone at Deadline ever wrote a review declaring that Showtime's George & Tammy had an "intense storyline." However, in a production mix-up, that is what you will see on page 24 of the today's Arts & Leisure section in the Grey Lady. In…

EXCLUSIVE: As production gets underway today on the John Hillcoat-directed George & Tammy with Michael Shannon playing George Jones and Jessica Chastain Tammy Wynette in a drama about their tempestuous marriage, Steve Zahn has joined the six-episode limited series. He will play George Richey, a songwriter, producer…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Shannon is closing a deal to join Jessica Chastain in George & Tammy, and John Hillcoat (The Road) is aboard is to direct all six episodes of a limited series on the tempestuous marriage of C&W music couple George Jones and Tammy Wynette. Production begins Wednesday in North Carolina, and I’m told…

Jessica Chastain is standing by her man as she saddles up to play the first lady of country music Tammy Wynette in a limited TV series for Spectrum Originals, the upcoming ViacomCBS streamer and Paramount Network. George & Tammy is based on the book, The Three of Us: Growing Up with Tammy and George, written by the…