Is Dolly Parton just about to announce a big new TV deal with Netflix?
I apparently stumbled into that scoop during the “Grace and Frankie” panel I moderated yesterday at Netflix’s Emmy headquarters at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood. And Lily Tomlin wants all the credit for this breaking news.
When I asked Tomlin and co-star Jane Fonda (on the panel with Martin Sheen, Sam Waterston, and co-creators/exec producers Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris) if Parton might be a future guest star on their show, both said they would love it, but Tomlin interjected that Parton may be too busy as she has her own Netflix project coming up, apparently a series of films a la her NBC movie “Coat of Many Colors.” Fonda was stunned to hear this, as was a Netflix representative I spoke to about it afterwards. Tomlin seemed to think it wasn’t a secret as she explained it would be based on Parton’s songs, and when I asked if Parton would be starring, she said “Yes, when the script called for it.”
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