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(AgapePress) -- It's no fairy tale -- a new reality-TV show premiering Friday will be granting real wishes for ordinary people across America. In each one-hour episode, NBC's "Three Wishes" will follow host Amy Grant and her team of experts to a different town where they will spend one week turning the hopes and dreams of deserving locals into reality.

Each episode of the weekly show depicts individuals, families, and entire towns that are affected as the Three Wishes team moves from town to town, where they inquire about people's wishes and select three to grant. Then, the wish-granting experts go to work, and soon they are witnessing firsthand the extraordinary consequences of their involvement and the powerful spirit of community that often helps fuel their missions to make dreams of all sizes come true -- from the simple and light-hearted to the more dramatic and serious.

The host of "Three Wishes," five-time Grammy and multiple Dove Award winner Amy Grant, says she was "extremely moved" when she heard about the premise of the show, and "the production company's concept to provide incredibly positive changes in the lives of different people." Grant says seeing the prep work that went into the pilot episode gave her a reason to look at her own life and to remind herself, once again "to never underestimate the impact one life can have on another."

The wishes addressed in the pilot episode are dramatic and real: while Grant goes to work helping a family cope with a child's life-threatening medical crisis, one team member takes on the wish of an entire school community, and another wish-granter helps a boy pay tribute to a man who has made a tremendous difference in his life.

Skillfully presented, the stories unfold with all their inherent suspense and surprises, for maximum emotional impact. It is a show that dares viewers to get all the way to the end with dry eyes. But Grant emphasizes the fact that the show is real, unscripted and unembellished, and perhaps every bit as meaningful for watchers as for wishers.

Grant's Wish

"It's a teaching tool," Grant says. "Yes, it's a television show, and we are using network dollars, sponsorship dollars, to do a good thing for people. But we live in an age where people are not connecting the way they used to, not meeting each others' needs on a basic level. My hope, when I first went to NBC -- I just said I hope that people see this show and feel inspired to reinvest. That's my hope, that people are re-energized."

After shooting several episodes, the recording artist and TV host says she has already seen that hope realized, to some extent, just among the people she and her team have met in the towns the show has visited. While only three wishes are chosen for each town out of however many hundreds or thousands are presented, Grant says many times other wishes get granted off camera and behind the scenes, as a result of people coming together to share their needs.

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