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Dolly Parton Secretly Produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Fans Have Only Just Found Out

posted by martyb on Sunday April 26 2020, @05:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-else-has-she-been-up-to? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Dolly Parton secretly produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and fans have only just found out:

While Parton was not herself credited as a producer on the long-running fantasy series, a company she co-created and owned was responsible for it coming to television.

Sandollar Entertainment, which is listed on the end credits of every episode of the show, was created by Parton and her friend and former business partner Sandy Gallin in 1986. It produced a number of films, including Father of the Bride (1991) and Fly Away Home (1996), as well as several Parton projects – most recently her Netflix anthology series Dolly Parton's Heartstrings.

It also produced the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, released in 1992 to dismal reviews. It was Gail Berman, then an executive at Sandollar, who still believed there was potential in the property, and proposed launching the concept as a TV series.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @07:07PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @07:07PM (#987333)

    Well, apart from Rhinestone [wikipedia.org], which I don't know what her involvement was outside of acting, but if she can survive that she can survive anything, she has had a pretty damn impressive career of savvy and successful projects.

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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @07:13PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @07:13PM (#987334)

    and big hooters.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @07:17PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @07:17PM (#987336)

      And Dollywood.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @01:01AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @01:01AM (#987418)

      How the F is big hooters offtopic with Dolly? It's the first thing you look.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by Reziac on Monday April 27 2020, @04:41AM

        by Reziac (2489) on Monday April 27 2020, @04:41AM (#987454) Homepage

        And if you don't, she'll make sure you do!

        --
        And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.

      • (Score: 4, Funny) by driverless on Monday April 27 2020, @06:25AM

        by driverless (4770) on Monday April 27 2020, @06:25AM (#987472)

        How the F is big hooters offtopic with Dolly? It's the first thing you look.

        They're definitely bigger than F's, gotta be G-cups at least.

  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Monday April 27 2020, @06:29AM

    by driverless (4770) on Monday April 27 2020, @06:29AM (#987473)

    So what was her actual involvement in Buffy? From that story, a company she co-founded had someone who was an executive producer in Buffy, but there's no evidence in there that she even knew Buffy existed. Perhaps the reason it's "Parton’s uncredited involvement in Buffy" is because she wasn't involved?