Dolly Parton announces new TV movie biopic

Dolly Parton has announced plans for a TV movie biopic, in collaboration with NBC.

The country music legend announced at an NBC press event yesterday (May 12) that the network had greenlit her new project Coat of Many Colours, for which she will serve as executive producer.

Named after her 1971 hit, the TV movie will dramatise the star’s early life, dealing in particular with her impoverished upbringing in rural Tennessee.

Often cited by Parton as one of her personal favourites, the original song tells the true story of how her mother made her a coat out of rags, which she loved and wore to school, only to be ridiculed by her classmates.

The film “takes us inside the tight-knit Parton family as they struggle to overcome devastating tragedy and discover the healing power of love, faith, and a raggedy patchwork coat that helped make Dolly who she is today,” reads an official description.

The 69-year-old signed a deal with NBC earlier this year which will see the production of a series of standalone TV movies based on her songs, stories and life. Though they will contain music they won’t be musicals, but Parton hasn’t ruled out appearing in some herself.

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