NBC announced this afternoon that Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors, the first of many made-for-TV movies the network plans to make with the country music legend, will debut in December.
Coat will debut on Dec. 10 at 9 p.m. and will help viewers learn about Parton’s early life in the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains in 1955. Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles is set to play Parton’s mother, while Ricky Schroder (24) plays her father. Gerald McRaney (Longmire, House of Cards) is playing her grandpa.
Alyvia Alyn Lind, who has been seen in A Deadly Adoption and Masters of Sex, will play 9-year-old Parton.
The network described the film as a special movie that looks at the Parton family’s struggles to overcome tragedy and understand the power of love and faith.
Coat starts production in Atlanta this week. It was written by Pamela K. Long, who is executive producing with Parton and Sam Haskell. It is a Magnolia Hill Entertainment and DP production, in association with Warner Bros. TV.
This is the first of several Parton movies NBC has agreed to air. The network announced earlier this month that the second movie will be based on the song “Jolene.”
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