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Page 2 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote December 6 - 12, 2015 Editor's choice STORY S Dolly Parton brings her ‘Coat of Many Colors’ to NBC Pictured: Jennifer Nettles (left), Alyvia Alyn Lind and Ricky Schroder BY JAY BOBBIN Young actress Lind clearly is thrilled to be playing Parton, Dolly Parton hopes a story – and a song – with great especially since she cites “9 to 5” as her “favorite movie. meaning for her will have that for many viewers this holiday I knew a lot about her before this, and I know even more season, too. about her now. I just knew for sure when we met. I felt so warm with her, and when our eyes met, I felt I definitely The country-music icon’s “Coat of Many Colors” becomes saw myself in her. I feel like she doesn’t really have to a TV movie Thursday, Dec. 10, as her new deal to supply speak to give a really great lesson, because she’s so programming to NBC begins. The true tale actually is wonderful, she’s so caring and she’s so nice.” about the young Dolly – played by Alyvia Alyn Lind – and her relationships with her parents (fellow country star Parton also is developing her entire life story as a Jennifer Nettles and Ricky Schroder) and grandfather Broadway musical, and Nettles – the Sugarland veteran (Gerald McRaney) in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains who’s beginning an acting career, having made her in the 1950s. A very special garment and voiceovers by Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in “Chicago” earlier the present-day Parton, an executive producer of the film, this year – forecasts that viewers “will get why it is this provide the framework. concentrated amount of time” that “Coat of Many Colors” deals with. “It is a great anti-bullying song,” Parton says of the “Coat of Many Colors” tune, “and that’s one of the reasons I thought “As we all know, within a family’s story and a family’s it would also be great to play it on television for families. trajectory, points within those families are milestones,” I had the ‘Coat of Many Colors’ song illustrated into a Nettles reflects. “There are a couple of turning points in this children’s book a few years ago, and they actually teach story that are so rich and so deep and partially so tragic, out of it in some of the schools around the country ... and you don’t need more than that amount of time because it’s it’s to say that we should celebrate the difference in one such a rich story in and of itself. When you see it, the nine another.” months (covered) is a very full and rich nine months.” Parton adds that hers was “not the poorest family” in her Parton notes that “Coat of Many Colors” remains “a very area as she grew up, “and certainly, there were many emotional song for me. During the time my mom was sick people around us that were poor. But in this particular and especially after my mama passed, it was really, really case, it just shows a certain type of children that make fun hard for me to sing this song without just kind of breaking of the others. I’ve had so many people tell me through the down or just really having to contain it ... but that little coat years that the song itself has had a healing effect on them, is just a symbol. Now that I’m older, I see all those colors whether it was about their race, their nationality, whether and it’s kind of like the girl of many colors, like a life of they’re overweight or whether they were (disabled), many colors. It kind of symbolizes all that.” whatever. It’s just that people identify with it. When people make you feel less about yourself than you should, it’s a Click or tap here for more! hard thing.” December 6 - 12, 2015 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 3 C CELEBRITY GEORGE DICKIE’S Q&A EDEN SHER ‘The Middle’ Wednesday on ABC How are things going with your character Sue Heck on ABC’s “The Middle” this year? Things are going. Actually, things are going pretty well. Things are happening. Things are moving and shaking. I think there are new prospects on the horizon, boywise and friendwise. Yeah, college has been treating Sue OK, which is natural, which is kind of like how it would go in real life. ... How has the character changed from your standpoint over the years? I guess in the way that I felt I’ve grown more comfortable playing Sue, I feel like it’s sort of translated into Sue being more comfortable being Sue. It’s kind of like you can be a certain way and still be confident without being necessarily super comfortable with yourself. I feel like ... people who were just comfortable with themselves forever or were not awkward when they were anywhere from like 13 to 18, no, I cannot relate to you as a human. I, like a lot of people, have like a general discomfort with (myself). And it sounds so cliché but ... with Sue, she doesn’t really change but in just kind of understanding and being more OK with (her) ... reactions to things and knowing more how (she is) going to react ... (she) can make more decisions based on that. So it’s as if (she has) made more life decisions based on understanding (herself) a little more. You recently did an episode of co-star Patricia Heaton’s Food Channel series “Patricia Heaton Parties.” How did that go? It was great. It was super super fun. ... It’s so different when you’re doing something (other than our show and) what a groove we’ve all gotten in and our set and our dynamic, it’s just like a well-oiled machine. And so when you are working on something that’s sort of finding its groove ... it’s work to do that. And so doing that was like ... having a best friend at summer camp and Click or tap here for more! then having them go to your hometown or something and it’s a FOLIO totally different experience. Really good but totally different. Page 4 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote December 6 - 12, 2015 CELEBRITY C JAY BOBBIN’S Q&A TAREK EL MOUSSA of ‘Flip or Flop’ Thursday on HGTV Since you’re now in your fourth season of “Flip or Flop,” are you still conscious of the cameras being around you while you film? We don’t even notice they’re there anymore. We just kind of do our thing and that’s it. As you currently film Season 6 of the show, do you and your wife Christina foresee it continuing for a long while beyond that? Absolutely. Going into this thing, we never knew what to expect. How do you manage to stay focused on your We never looked at ourselves as TV personalities, we looked at real-estate business while also filming “Flip or Flop”? ourselves as realty investors who It’s still business as usual. We have 40 employees, we’re managing our properties were on TV. And now, it’s kind of and our rentals and our commercial ventures. We’re doing a lot of stuff. One thing morphed into the fact that we’re for people to understand is that this isn’t a design show; it’s a flip show that’s kind both realty investors and TV of morphed into a design show, too. personalities. We’ve been doing We could step up and put more into the houses, but because we’re on it as a this for a few years now, and I business, it prevents us from spending too much money.