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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.

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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) by looorg on Monday April 27 2020, @12:50AM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Monday April 27 2020, @12:50AM (#987416)

    I guess they could reboot with Dolly in the lead -- show setting, Buffy had a hard life, a massive boobjob and is now "enjoying" retirement at the Sunnydale (I'm sure they rebuilt the town) Slayer retirementhome when ...

    Not sure why but I kinda liked the movie more then the tv-show, the show just got worse by the season.

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Monday April 27 2020, @02:12AM

    by Arik (4543) on Monday April 27 2020, @02:12AM (#987435) Journal
    The movie was fun.

    The show was fun too, but it made the mistake of taking itself too seriously and by the end I didn't even know why I was watching anymore.

    Angel was a decent spinoff while it lasted, but they never really got back to that initial level of fun.
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