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Blake Shelton’s Award Winning ‘God’s Country’ Is Headed To TV

Blake Shelton’s 2019 CMA Award-winning Single of the Year “God’s Country” is now going to be a TV series on NBC. Deadline reports that NBC is developing God’s Country, a…

Blake Shelton's Award Winning 'God's Country' Is Headed To TV
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Blake Shelton's 2019 CMA Award-winning Single of the Year "God's Country" is now going to be a TV series on NBC.

Deadline reports that NBC is developing God’s Country, a drama inspired by Blake Shelton’s hit song of the same name. The project hails from Shelton, Las Vegas creator Gary Scott Thompson and Universal Television.

Written by Thompson, in God’s Country, when the patriarch of a hardworking Midwestern farm family dies mysteriously in a car accident, his grown children discover he was keeping a devastating secret they could never have imagined.

Shelton’s song “God’s Country”, written by Devin Dawson, Michael Wilson Hardy and Jordan Schmidt, was released in March 2019. It has gone triple platinum and won Single of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards last week.

The song’s official video has been viewed more than 114 million times on YouTube alone.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.