TNT to revive Dallas – including original cast members.

Wait.  What?

It’s official: TNT is bringing back Dallas, and with original series stars Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray.

The 1980s hit will get a modern makeover on the cable network, which just gave its new version of Dallas a 10-episode series order (full official description below). But you don’t have to wait until next summer, when the series debuts, to get a look at the show: TNT will give viewers a preview of the pilot on Monday night during the season premieres of The Closer and Rizzoli & Isles.

(Via Drudge)

If you’re wondering why I’m reporting on this, it’s because when I was in college I’d get together with a bunch of people every week to watch this show; somebody would cook a dinner, we’d all get half-plastered, then we’d watch the episode while calling out what we thought were witticisms at the time.  And yeah, we knew the show was crappy.  That’s why we were watching it; it was fun crappy. Still, I can’t quite in good conscience tell you to click through the link below and buy the show…

6 thoughts on “TNT to revive Dallas – including original cast members.”

  1. Heh. I still know the theme from Dallas, for the simple reason that it was on immediately after The Dukes of Hazzard, which I did watch when I was a kid. (The movie remake? Hell no, they couldn’t even be arsed to get the haircolors of the main cast correct.)

  2. I think we can now safely say, without fear of contradiction, that Hollywood is Out Of Ideas. It would be at least a bit interesting to learn how much life insurance they bought on Hagman.

    Regards,
    Ric

  3. They can’t be out of ideas yet – there hasn’t been a steampunk ‘Leave it to Beaver with Zombies’ done.

  4. This actually doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. It’ll have the consequence of making the original series look ever so much better.

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