The Dolly music
you love, the stories you’ve been waiting for. Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings is
an anthology series that showcases the stories, memories, and inspirations
behind her most beloved songs. New and classic Dolly music will score every
episode. Each story will vary in tone, from love stories and inspirational
tales to family dramas, westerns, and revenge comedies.
Dolly
Parton’s Heartstrings’ award-winning cast includes Kathleen Turner,
Delta Burke, Gerald McRaney, Ginnifer Goodwin, Julianne Hough, Kimberly
Williams-Paisley, Timothy Busfield, and Melissa Leo (full cast lists can be
found below).
Episode Titles: These Old Bones, If I Had Wings, JJ Sneed, Jolene, Cracker Jack, Sugar Hill, Down From Dover, Two Doors Down
ABOUT DOLLY PARTON’S HEARTSTRINGS
Launch Date:
November 22, 2019
Showrunner: Patrick
Sean Smith
Executive Producers: Sam
Haskell, Dolly Parton, Patrick Sean Smith
Format: Anthology
series; 8 x 1-hour standalone episodes
Produced by: Magnolia Hill
Productions and Sandollar Productions in association with Warner Bros.
Television for Netflix
These Old Bones
CAST:
Kathleen
Turner – “Miss Mary Shaw aka Old Bones”
Ginnifer
Goodwin – “Genevieve”
Kyle
Bornheimer – “Landon”
Writer: Jim Strain
Director: Joe
Lazarov
SYNOPSIS: A big-city
lawyer comes home to TN to convince an alleged “witch” (Old Bones) to sell her
land to a mining company. She wrestles with her past and the future of the
town.
If I Had Wings
CAST:
Gerald McRaney – “Tom Freeman”
Delta Burke – “Ellie Holder”
Ben Lawson – “Clay”
Michele Weaver – “Phyllis”
Brooke Elliott – “Nancy Bridges”
Tim Reid – “Kendal Hooks”
Writer: Jim Strain
Director: Timothy
Busfield
SYNOPSIS: After
receiving invitations to the 70th birthday party of their decades-long
estranged father, three disparate siblings converge on a Mississippi farm where
they test the bonds of blood and issues of faith, all to confront the sins of
their father.
JJ Sneed
CAST:
Colin O’Donoghue – “JJ Sneed”
Willa Fitzgerald – “Maddie”
David Denman – “Deke
Fletcher”
Mac Davis – “Reverend Riggs”
Vanessa Rubio – “Cimmaron”
Writer: Jim Strain
Director: Terry
McDonough
SYNOPSIS: In the
1880s, a feisty young woman trapped in a mundane existence dreams of more,
until a seductive outlaw pulls her into the adventure of a lifetime
Jolene
CAST:
Julianne Hough – “Jolene”
Dolly Parton – “Babe”
Kimberly Williams-Paisley – “Emily”
Dallas Roberts – “Aaron”
Writer: Patrick
Sean Smith
Director: Andrew
Fleming
SYNOPSIS: Based on
Dolly Parton’s Grammy award-winning classic, “Jolene” tells the story of an
unexpected friendship between two very different women who find themselves part
of the iconic love triangle, ultimately impacting each other’s lives in
profound ways.
Cracker Jack
CAST:
Sarah Shahi – “Lucy Jane”
Rochelle Aytes – “Scarlett”
Jessica Collins – “Monica”
Tammy Lynn Michaels – “Bitsy”
Writer: Lisa
Melamed
Director: Liesl
Tommy
SYNOPSIS: Two
stories — one past, one present — about the power of unconditional love
between a girl and her dog, and that same girl, now grown, who questions what
her life means and who she can truly count on when faced with her greatest
fear.
Sugar Hill
CAST:
Patricia Wettig ‘ “Harper Cantrell”
Timothy Busfield – “Logan Cantrell”
Virginia Gardner – “Young Harper”
Tom Brittney – “Young Logan”
Writer: Thomas Ian
Griffith & Mary Page Keller
Director: Lev L.
Spiro
SYNOPSIS: A married
couple in their twilight embarks on a road trip back to the place where they
first fell in love, along the way revisiting the history of their love
story.
Down From Dover
CAST:
Holly Taylor – “Delilah ‘Dee’
Covern”
Shane McGhie – “Lincoln
Dollarhyde”
Robert Taylor – “Reverend Covern”
Bellamy Young – “Myrna Jorgensen”
Camryn Manheim – “Mrs. Grover”
Mary Lane Haskell – “Mrs.
Cunningham”
Writer: John
Sacret Young
Director: Erica
Dunton
SYNOPSIS: After being
shunned by her pious widowed father, a pregnant teenager finds support at a
home for unwed mothers, where she hopes for the safe return, of the young man
she loves, from the Vietnam War.
Two Doors Down
CAST:
Melissa Leo – “Amelia Meegers”
Ray McKinnon – “Roy Meegers”
Andy Mientus – “Tyler Meegers”
Katie Stevens – “Lee Meegers”
Michael Willett – “Cole Evans”
Writer: Mark B.
Perry
Director: Wendey
Stanzler
SYNOPSIS: A family’s
lifetime of secrets come bursting out during a chaotic and comedic New Year’s
Eve wedding weekend. Will they make it to witness the “I do’s” without killing
one another?
