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Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square

Magnolia Hill Productions

Sandollar Productions

Warner Bros. Television

United States of America

English

Dolly Parton

Christine Baranski

Treat Williams

Jenifer Lewis

Josh Segarra

Jeanine Mason

Mary Lane Haskell

Matthew Johnson

Selah Kimbro Jones

Douglas Sills

Vivian Nixon

Mary Donnelly-Haskell

Donald Corren

Brandon O'Neal

Mark Daniel Chmiel

Brandon Hudson

Carol Swarbrick

Andrew Brodeur

Terry Beeman

Yvonne Valadez

Stephen Caudill

Braxton Alexander

Lariah Alexandria

Jacob Moran

Cruz Abelita

Jasmine Alexia Jackson

Casey O. Rohrs

Provi Fulp Ramphal

Oliver Bokelberg

Maria S. Schlatter

Marybeth Dillon

Debbie Allen

Larry Blank

Thomas Ian Griffith

Mary Page Keller

Paul Lindsay

Joe Lazarov

Sam Haskell

Ina Mayhew

Hudson Hickman

Todd Hilyard

William Klug

Chase Paris

Patrick Rush

Katie Willard Troebs

Tara Feldstein Bennett

Brigman Foster-Owens

Denny Mooradian

Sarah Carter

Michael B. Koff

Christopher Scott

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Now, who doesn't like a bit of Dolly at Christmas? Well, add a little Treat Williams and make Christine Baranski a baddie, and that should have been a recipe for success. Well - it isn't. The whole thing is so sentimentally cheesy that it's almost excruciating to watch. The plot - insofar as that remotely matters - is a sort of "A Christmas Carol" affair, with Baranski deciding to sell her town to some property developers - and so she decides to deliver eviction notices to the populace with only days to go until Santa arrives. Dolly, complete with angel dust, decides to step in and stop the mean and wicked lady from carrying out her plan and... well, you can guess the rest. The whole thing reminded me of a cannibalisation of a school performance of "Godspell" I was in, in 1974 - the production and dance routines are staged to within an inch of their life - and a couple of episodes of "Glee". I doubt even at this time of year, this can resonate with anyone who isn't under ten years old - and I'm afraid Treat Williams just can't sing. One, perhaps, to leave the kids in front of the telly for, whilst you wrestle with the turkey but otherwise, even the schmaltzy lyric doesn't help. It might be borderline sacrilegious to say this but sorry, Dolly - this is terrible.

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Jenifer Lewis

Josh Segarra

Jeanine Mason

Mary Lane Haskell

Matthew Johnson

Selah Kimbro Jones

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