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 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.