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Dolly Parton has confirmed she is working with NBC on a series of new TV movies.
In a statement the country matriarch announced: "I am so excited to be involved with my friend Bob Greenblatt...and my longtime friend and former agent Sam Haskell. We want to create projects for NBC that are both fun and inspirational with a family audience in mind".
Speaking at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, NBC's entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt revealed that the network has partnered with Parton to create the films. "I produced 9 to 5: The Musical on Broadway and we became very close," Greenblatt tells Rolling Stone Country. "She's just thinking about a lot of things going on in her life and things she's written about and I had lunch with her a couple of months ago and she said, 'You know, I'd love to see if there's some movies we can develop out of the stories I've been writing about.'"
Greenblatt says Parton could appear in the films "if there was something that was right" for her as an actress.
The pint-sized legend is no stranger to the delights of the screen after appearing in critically-acclaimed films Steel Magnolias and 9 to 5 - in which her track of the same name was nominated for an Oscar.
