I found out today that the TV show, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, probably wouldn't have existed if it hadn't have been for a Country and Western singer.
The Buffster began as a so-so film which even Joss Whedon wasn't best pleased with but an executive at the production house which co-produced the film, Sandollar, convinced the company to acquire the television rights.
Sandollar was co-founded by Dolly Parton and her manager in order for Dolly to get into the movie business and it had a big hit with the film Clueless in 1995 and it used the proceeds to hire Whedon to write a pilot based on the Buffy film, and the rest is blood drenched, vampire gore history.
Us Buffy fans have the person who wrote the world's greatest song about tumbling outta bed and stumbling to the kitchen to pour ourselves a cup of ambition working from 9 to 5 to thank for giving us the best TV program ever.
Thanks Dolly.
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