Dolly Parton is the queen of country, but also the queen of our hearts because many of us are just now learning that she had a hand with one of best shows of the Millennial generation. And she’s also teasing that it might be getting a revival.
The 78-year-old singer was a producer on the 1997-2003 series,Buffy the Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Now, they are looking to bring the show back to inspire another generation of powerful women. “They’re still working on that,” Parton hinted at the possible reboot in an interview with Business Insider. “They’re thinking about bringing it back and revamping it.” She didn’t reveal any other details about seeing Buffy again on our TV screens, but it is a positive step in the right direction for fans who miss the show.
What viewers may not know is that Parton cofounded the production company, Sandollar Productions, with her former manager Sandy Gallin. They first coproduced the 1992 film starring Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry, and even though the film did poorly at the box office, Sandollar executive Gail Berman pushed for them to make it into a TV series. Her hunch was right, and it became a hit on The WB, running for seven seasons, and giving them the spinoff, Angel.
Fans will only see Berman and Gallin’s names in the credits, but Parton’s contributions might be the most meaningful to the series. When the “Islands in the Stream” singer learned that Berman didn’t get an equal share of royalties from the show as the male executives at Sandollar, it was Parton who made up the difference with her own money, per The New York Times. (Parton truly is the embodiment of women supporting women.)
Even Gellar sang Parton’s praises on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon about her silent participation on Buffy. “Yes, little known fact, the legend Dolly Parton was a producer,” Gellar said in 2023. “We never saw her [but] we’d get Christmas gifts in the beginning that would have our name, and I would think, ‘She doesn’t even know who I am.’ And then one day, someone asked her about it, and she complimented the show and my performance. I was like, ‘Oh, I can die now. Dolly Parton knows who I am and thinks I’m good.’”
Gellar told SFX Magazine, via Movie Web, that she’s completely done with the series, but she is “all for them continuing the story because there’s the story of female empowerment” — and it looks like Parton may have another chapter in making it happen.
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