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Dolly Parton’S Mountain Magic Christmas — Pictured: Dolly Parton as herself — (Photo by: Katherine Bomboy/NBC) Starring the global superstar and 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, “Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas” will air Thursday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt on NBC. Musical guests Jimmy Fallon, Willie Nelson, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jimmie Allen, Zach Williams and Miley Cyrus join Dolly on the two-hour holiday special. Tom Everett Scott, Angel Parker and Ana Gasteyer also star. Mary Lane Haskell, Bryan Batt, Brendan Bradley, John Newberg, Rachel Parton George, Cassie Parton Griffith, Rhoda Griffis, Liam Rauhoff and Steve Summers round out the cast. The film will include a pair of Dolly’s iconic songs (“9 to 5” and “I Will Always Love You”) as well as a new holiday melody. In all, there are numerous songs that capture the spirit of Christmas and the importance of gathering with family during the holidays.

The previously announced two-hour holiday special film featuring country/pop superstar Dolly Parton has set its debut date.

Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas will air Thursday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt on NBC. Musical guests Jimmy Fallon, Willie Nelson, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jimmie Allen, Zach Williams and Miley Cyrus join Dolly on the special.

Tom Everett Scott, Angel Parker and Ana Gasteyer also star. Mary Lane Haskell, Bryan Batt, Brendan Bradley, John Newberg, Rachel Parton George, Cassie Parton Griffith, Rhoda Griffis, Liam Rauhoff and Steve Summers round out the cast.

The film will include a pair of Parton’s iconic songs (“9 to 5” and “I Will Always Love You”) as well as a new holiday melody.

The film is described as a modern-day movie musical about the making of a network TV special. Throughout the movie’s production numbers and rehearsal chaos, Parton finds herself taking a private journey into her past,...

Dolly Parton as herself in ‘Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas’ (Photo by: Katherine Bomboy/NBC)

Dolly Parton’s upcoming special, “Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas,” will help ring in the holiday season on Thursday, December 1, 2022. The movie musical airs at 8pm Et/Pt on NBC and will feature special guests Willie Nelson, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jimmie Allen, Zach Williams, and Miley Cyrus, joining the iconic superstar for some lighthearted fun.

The film’s cast includes Tom Everett Scott, Angel Parker, Ana Gasteyer, Mary Lane Haskell, Bryan Batt, and Brendan Bradley. John Newberg, Rachel Parton George, Cassie Parton Griffith, Rhoda Griffis, Liam Rauhoff, and Steve Summers also star.

Joe Lazarov directed from a screenplay by David Rambo. Lazarov, Rambo, Dolly Parton, Sam Haskell, and Hudson Hickman executive produced, and Billy Levin and Steve Summers served as producers. Emmy winner Kathryn Burns provided the choreography along with assistant choreographer David Hull.

Fans of Dolly Parton and/or movie musicals will have an early present to unwrap, when NBC premieres Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas on Thursday, Dec. 1 at 8/7c.

Starring Parton, Tom Everett Scott (SouthLAnd), Angel Parker (The Rookie) and Ana Gasteyer (The Goldbergs) — and counting Miley Cyrus, Willie Nelson, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jimmie Allen, Zach Williams and, well, Jimmy Fallon among its musical guests — the two-hour special promises a “modern-day movie musical about the making of a network TV special” as it depicts “the frenetic backstage story and delightful on-camera results of Dolly’s desire to uplift an exhausted...

Here’s Dolly! NBC’s “Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas” will air on the network at 8 p.m. Et/Pt on Dec. 1. The revered artist and 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee stars as herself in the modern-day movie musical about the making of a live TV special.

Previously announced in August, guest stars include Miley Cyrus (Parton’s goddaughter), Willie Nelson, Jimmy Fallon, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jimmie Allen and Zach Williams, along with cast members Tom Everett Scott, Ana Gasteyer and Angel Parker. Rounding out the cast are Mary Lane Haskell, Bryan Batt, Brendan Bradley, John Newberg, Rachel Parton George, Cassie Parton Griffith, Rhoda Griffis, Liam Rauhoff and Steve Summers.

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The meta film unfolds with the “the frenetic backstage story and delightful on-camera results of Dolly’s desire to uplift an exhausted world’s spirits...