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EXCLUSIVE: George & Tammy, the country music drama series centered around Tammy Wynette, is bulking up its cast.

EXCLUSIVE: As production gets underway today on the John Hillcoat-directed George & Tammy with Michael Shannon playing George Jones and Jessica Chastain Tammy Wynette in a drama about their tempestuous marriage, Steve Zahn has joined the six-episode limited series. He will play George Richey, a songwriter, producer and mainstay of the Nashville country music community who married Wynette after she and Jones split up in 1975. Richey managed Wynette until her death in 1998.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Shannon is closing a deal to join Jessica Chastain in George & Tammy, and John Hillcoat (The Road) is aboard is to direct all six episodes of a limited series on the tempestuous marriage of C&W music couple George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

Billboard reports, a special show at the Grand Ole Opry will take place on Saturday night (December 11) in tribute to Jackson.Remembering Jackson, the late country legend George Jones’ wife Nancy said: “Stonewall’s breakout hit ‘Life to Go’ was written by George [Jones] and they both became members of the Grand Ole Opry in 1956.“They held a special friendship over the years and although Stonewall was retired, he participated in the final George Jones No Show tribute event after he passed.

Jessica Chastain is heading to TV. And she’s going to play one of the most iconic country music singers of all time.

Jessica Chastain is heading to television for an upcoming series about country music legend Tammy Wynette!

Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain is set to play country music star Tammy Wynette in a TV miniseries focused on the singer’s marriage to George Jones.

above) is (still) set to star as Wynette. She and Josh Brolin, the original actor attached to the George Jones role, were going to star opposite one another in the movie version.No word yet on who will play Jones in the limited series.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterSpectrum Originals and Paramount Network are teaming to co-produce a limited series starring Jessica Chastain as country music legend Tammy Wynette.After a nine-month exclusive run for Spectrum subscribers, the series, titled “George & Tammy,” will have a second window on ViacomCBS’ forthcoming streaming service and Paramount Network.The series chronicles the country music power couple, Wynette and George Jones, whose complicated relationship inspired some of the most

above) is (still) set to star as Wynette. She and Josh Brolin (as George Jones) were going to star opposite one another in the movie version.No word yet on who will play Jones in the limited series.

George Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today" rose 2-1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.The legend earned his eighth of 13 No. 1s with the song, which Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman co-wrote.

Beloved veteran country session musician and longtime Grand Ole Opry house band guitarist Jimmy Capps has died at age 81. A spokesperson for the Opry confirmed the news to Billboard, though no cause of death was revealed at press time.

Taken from Clark Duke's directorial debut 'Arkansas', out May 5