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Dolly Parton's Corn Pone of Many Colors

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One of the curiosities of last spring’s upfronts in New York was the amount of time NBC devoted to Dolly Parton at the network’s presentation at Radio City Music Hall.

Here was this network promoting its programming as squarely aimed at a “younger” demo of 18-49 adults -- a target presumed to be more urban than rural -- and it was giving a showcase lasting 15-20 minutes to this 69 year-old country music star from Tennessee.

The reason for all the attention paid to this siren of the Smoky Mountains was the announcement that Parton would produce a series of holiday-themed movies based on her songs. Lo and behold, at least one of these movies has actually happened. It’s called “Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors” and it airs Thursday night.

In stories and reviews about this movie that you might come across this week, you might see the word “heartwarming” used all over the place to describe this movie. And it is heartwarming in spots. But if you’re a cynic -- or an urbanite more accustomed to the violent dramas and snarky insult comedies usually seen on networks such as NBC -- you’ll wonder if your remote control has made some sort of mistake identifying this network airing a Dolly Parton Smoky Mountain faith movie as NBC.
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http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/264149/dolly-partons-corn-pone-of-many-colors.html
 
Had to re-read that title 3x before I picked my jaw up off of the floor. Corn Pone...pretty shocking when you have dyslexia and switch up the P & the C. Whew...thought Dolly had lost it for a split second.
 
purpledevil said:
Had to re-read that title 3x before I picked my jaw up off of the floor. Corn Pone...pretty shocking when you have dyslexia and switch up the P & the C. Whew...thought Dolly had lost it for a split second.
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I'm not dyslexic yet I read the exact thing as you did :p
 
This sounds like a show that nobody but CBS would be interested in. Usually they're the most rural/small-market friendly network.
 
Hmmm...NBC is the network that did Peter Pan, The Sound of Music, and last week, The Wiz. This seems to fit into that style of programming, although it's not live.
 
It's the same logic that leads to radio scheduling non stop Christmas music. This type of film, this time of year, attracts a wide audience, a significant portion of which will be in the targeted demo. I'm sure NBC sold every spot at a decent price and the production cost was reasonable.
 
umfan said:
It's the same logic that leads to radio scheduling non stop Christmas music.
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And note that quite a bit of the Christmas music that your local AC station is playing this month is from decades that are normally excluded from airplay because they attract older listeners and repel younger ones. You won't hear Nat King Cole, Brenda Lee, Bobby Helms, the Royal Guardsmen, etc. on that station except around Christmastime. Yet the station doesn't lose the advertiser-friendly demos during the month of ho-ho-ho.

Network TV generally attracts an older crowd than radio, but it still has advertisers who'll pay to reach them (look at the commercials on "60 Minutes" sometime), so it doesn't matter much that Dolly won't put up great numbers in 18-34.
 
And IMO much of that Christmas music sounds horribly out of place up next to "Cheerleader" and "F*** You" ("Forget You" is the radio edit) and "More than a Feeling".
 
dolly parton's coat of many colors

Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors was an excellent movie! Beautifully filmed and well-acted. But I was not prepared for just how sad it was going to be!
P.S. I am a 54-year-old female, so I am of the demographic who would watch this movie, although I am not in the important demographic group (nor have I ever been, even when I was younger!).
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
And IMO much of that Christmas music sounds horribly out of place up next to "Cheerleader" and "F*** You" ("Forget You" is the radio edit) and "More than a Feeling".
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That might explain why all-Christmas or no-Christmas is the choice many stations seem to be making, rather than sprinkling two or three incongruous holiday songs into the hourly music mix. With AC, and its target audience, so relentlessly uptempo in musical preference these days, it's harder to wedge "Merry Christmas, Darling" into the rotation without causing a trainwreck. In the '80s, you could just plug it in anywhere, because your station was playing slow-paced non-holiday songs -- including some by the Carpenters -- anyway. (On the other hand, Christmas music on Top 40 radio didn't have many years left. Grunge and rap wound up making even once-an-hour Christmas songs an audience killer, whereas in the '60s and '70s Christmas music was being produced and performed in styles compatible with what a younger audience would stand for.)
 
skippercollector said:
Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors was an excellent movie! Beautifully filmed and well-acted. But I was not prepared for just how sad it was going to be!
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Agreed on all counts. Especially thought highly of Jennifer Nettles's performance as Mama Parton.
 
gr8oldies said:
Now don't be dissin' Dolly! 13 million watched, and seemingly everyone loved the little girl. Does everything on TV have to be some dysfunctional modern family?
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I watched because of the comments being made here. As a natural cynic, I was prepared to be critical. But I found the story moving and the acting above the average for network television.

As you say, a nice respite from the nastiness and bickering of most TV families today and a nice touch for the Christmas season.
 
I watched for awhile, but ultimately couldn't take the "corn"...or maybe I should say "corn syrup" since it was so sickly-sweet. I love Ms. Parton, and give her a lot of leeway due to her talent, and her very genuine and sincere personality, but it was too cloying for me - like one of those 50s's shows that mercilessly tugged at your heartstrings - Lassie, Father Knows Best, etc.
 
'Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors' Gets Christmas-Themed Sequel on NBC

Dolly Parton is adding two more colors to her already festive coat: red and green.

NBC on Wednesday announced production on Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love, a follow-up to 2015’s hugely successful Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors, which will continue to tell the story of Parton’s early years.

Here’s the film’s official description, per NBC:

The film delivers Christmas joy and peril as an unexpected blizzard threatens the Parton family, while at the same time Dolly’s father (and his kids) make sacrifices to raise enough money to finally buy his loving wife the wedding ring he could never afford to give her. Meanwhile, an important person in little Dolly’s life begins to see that her amazing voice and musical gift might just be made for something bigger than rural Tennessee.
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Not only will the sequel feature the same cast as the original — including Jennifer Nettles as Avie Lee Parton, Ricky Schroder as Robert Lee Parton and Alyvia Alyn Lind as young Dolly Parton — but director Stephen Herek will also return.
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https://tvline.com/2016/05/11/dolly-parton-christmas-movie-nbc-sequel-coat-of-many-colors/
 
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