Dallas (TV Show)

Dallas, Now Less Popular Than Teen Mom 2, is Hemorrhaging Viewers

When the first season of the revamped Dallas debuted in June, it was described in the trade press as a ratings gusher, pulling in a solid 6.9 million viewers. It seems that the ratings bonanza is now over. The show's second season pulled in fewer than 3 million viewers, a series low. It fared even ... More >>

DTC's King Lear Strips the Mean Old Coot to the Skin

Human Rights, As Told By Hagman’s Eyebrows

The Omni Apparently Wants to Set Dallas' Image Back Three Decades With "Texas Tycoon" Sweepstakes

Last we checked, the downtown Omni is doing pretty well. Better than expected, as a matter of fact, as it finishes its first season this week after hosting conventions for such groups as the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Microbiology, salsa-swilling library scientists and presu ... More >>

LaGrange Snow Cone Trailer: At 5 o'clock Today it's Go Time!

A of couple weeks ago we were happy to report that LaGrange's new snow cone trailer is giving out free booze, thanks to a salacious little loophole in Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code. Well, today we have even better news: The snow cone trailer is opening at 5 p.m. for a test run. Then, starting Wedn ... More >>

Five References to Dallas in Pop Culture

Is everyone so excited for the new season of Dallas? Oh, you are actually excited? Then you should join our friends at Mixmaster tonight at the Angelika for a screening of the first episode of the new show. We even made you a drinking schedule! So, to get you nice and limbered up for the big night ... More >>

Here's Dallas Getting Pummeled By Hail

Reports of smashed car windows, skylights and pretty-expensive-art exhibits rolled on Twitter this evening, as egg-to-baseball sized hail fell in Dallas. The storm hit right around the time the Dallas reboot kicked in on TNT, which meteorologists said was due to Mother Nature's hatred for Patrick Du ... More >>

At the New Dallas' Red Carpet Premier, Patrick Duffy Will Sign My Step By Step Box Set

I was 6 when Dallas went off the air, so I have been spared thus far, mercifully from everything I hear, from ever having to watch an episode. I haven't been able to maintain the level of ignorance that I would have liked, since on occasion when I've mention my hometown in places that aren't Texas, ... More >>

At the Omni, J.R. and Sue Ellen Ewing, Mayors Mike and Tom Come Together to Cut a Ribbon

​I've been regretting all day we didn't have a warm body to spare to send to the ribbon-cutting of The People's Hotel, aka the downtown Omni. Then this arrived, courtesy the good folks at Weber Shandwick: Larry Hagman and Linda Gray -- in town shooting Dallas, of course -- joining Mayor Mike Rawli ... More >>

Dallas Finally Does Dallas, or: They Started Shooting J.R. Ewing (and Family) This Week

Photo by Zade Rosenthal, courtesy Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc.Father and son: Larry Hagman and Josh Henderson on the set of Dallas yesterday​TNT's crack publicity department sends word: Production began on that next-gen Dallas this week -- 21 hours ago, or thereabouts, from the looks of Jo ... More >>

Maybe They'll Shoot the Next-Generation Dallas At Your House. Guess It Doesn't Hurt to Ask.

This scene was shot at a house on Deloache. Trust me.​Back when Dallas was on the air, the series barely shot in Dallas -- maybe two months out of the season, tops, which was "crazy-making," as Linda Gray told Unfair Park back in April. That said, an old friend did have his folks' house used in a ... More >>

Don't Mince Words, GQ, What Do You Really Think About How Dallas Men Dress?

​A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to GQ's round-up of The 40 Worst-Dressed Cities in America, and if there's one bit of good news, it's this: Austin and Houston are just a wee bit fuglier, coming at No. 18 and No. 21, respectively, on a list where Dallas ranks 23rd. But, really, the l ... More >>

"We're Serious About Doing Dallas The Way Dallas Is Supposed to Be Done."

That quote in the headline comes from Patrick Duffy in the behind-the-scenes peek that follows; Bobby Ewing always was so ... sincere. Still is. Now, more than ever. Above, of course, is the sneak peek at the next-gen Dallas TNT provided last night -- a good year before the series makes its official ... More >>

TNT Orders 10 Episodes of Dallas Reboot

TNT/Warner Horizon​At long last, TNT has finally announced that it will indeed air that next-gen Dallas, featuring Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray and a cast of younglings playing their offspring. The series, which is expected to shoot here now that the city council's OK'd that $235,000 so ... More >>

Council Told If The City Doesn't Pony Up for Studio, TNT Won't Shoot Dallas in Dallas

WireImageMary Crosby, Larry Hagman, former Dallas and Walker, Texas Ranger director Michael Preece and Sheree Wilson at the auction of Hagman's memorabilia in Beverly Hills last week​Saturday morning we sneak-peeked an item that was just the subject of much debate during this morning's meeting of ... More >>

In Other Economic Developments, The City Wants To Turn City Lights Back On. And: Dallas Wants Dallas to Furnish a Studio, Apparently.

The old George Dahl library in a cleaned-up rendering found in Monday's briefing​First off, as promised yesterday, here's that Statler Hilton update, which was posted last night to the city's website as the cumbersomely titled Filling in the Missing Pieces Downtown Upcoming Redevelopment Projects ... More >>

As the Ewings Return to Dallas For a Second Shot, Linda Gray on Sue Ellen Then and Now

Photo by Patrick MichelsLarry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray on the Southfork Ranch balcony at the November 2008 Dallas cast reunion​Larry Hagman's already in Dallas -- downtown, to be specific, where the once and future J.R. Ewing will speak at 11 this morning and again at 2 this afternoon ... More >>

Finally, Dallas International Film Festival Reveals Its Closing Night Film. And: "Captain America" and J.R. Ewing to Give Out Awards.

Peter Fonda's coming to town to give our DIFF's big-money prizes.​Close to midnight this morning I got an email from Dallas International Film Festival Artistic Director in which, at last, he revealed the title of the fest's closing-night film: Burke and Hare, the latest from director John Landis ... More >>

Next Month, Dallas Returns to Dallas As TNT Decides to Shoot Pilot Here After All

Looks like those old bumper stickers the city made finally did the trick.​We've been waiting since at least September to see whether TNT and Warner Horizon Television would be shooting that Dallas pilot here -- ya know, in Dallas? Larry Hagman, who will be among The Holy Trinity of original cast m ... More >>

At Least J.R. Wants to Be Shot in Dallas (Again)

​Like I wrote last week, TNT's coming to town this week (and good luck with all that) to see if its wants to shoot Dallas in Dallas, which I can't even believe is a question at this point. Neither can Larry Hagman, who was at an AARP dinner last night and offered his own hot sports opinions about ... More >>

Janine Turner's Audition Video Provides a Sneak Peek at New Dallas?

​Thirty years ago -- which is to say, a decade before Northern Exposure -- a very young Janine Turner appeared on a handful of episodes of Dallas. Since then, of course, the Fort Worth native who presently lives on 300 acres just outside of Dallas appeared in myriad other teevee shows and movies, ... More >>

In TV Series News: Dallas Is Coming to Look at Dallas. And: ABC Gives Bitches an Order.

Patrick MichelsLarry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray at Southfork Ranch at the Dallas reunion in November '08​The teevee networks, major and minor and cable and otherwise, are starting to slow-roll-out their next-season pilots. And two, very specifically, affect Dallas -- which would love to ... More >>

More on TNT's Dallas Reboot. Except Where They're Filming the Danged Thing.

​At this very moment the Television Critics Association is holding its biannual press tour in Pasadena, during which the stars of series debuting and returning parade across a stage to tell writers how great those series are. Yesterday, during the press-the-flesh, Variety's Stuart Levine grabbed T ... More >>

At the Lakewood Last Night, A Home-Field Look at SMU Football Doc Pony Excess

Patrick MichelsDirector Thaddeus Matula introduces his film.​Mustangs young and old turned out at the Lakewood Theater last night, for a very special screening of Pony Excess -- or "Exce$$," if you prefer -- Southern Methodist film-school grad Thaddeus Matula's ESPN-bound documentary about SMU foo ... More >>

Yes, But Is TNT Gonna Shoot Dallas in Dallas?

If you want one of these bumper stickers, why, you just let me know.​Two months ago TNT announced that it was indeed planning on a return to Southfork with the Ewing clan in tow. For now, though, the new Dallas is but a hypothetical -- a pilot that will more than likely shoot in the spring. Effort ... More >>

Khatter Vineyards: Want More Than a Bottle? Buy the Vineyard.

​If you are familiar with Parker, Texas, at all, doubtless it's because of Southfork Ranch, home to JR Ewing and his fictional clan from Dallas. But while the symbol for the Ewing empire might be the oil well, the signage for Parker's only winery features the peacock. You see, when Jay and Ca ... More >>

Annual Dallas CVB Meeters Would Like To Reiterate: We Are Not J.R. Ewing. No, Seriously.

Photos by Andrea GrimesFor those about to not talk about Dallas in terms of shoulder pads and oil barons, Mayor Tom Leppert salutes you.​Perhaps you've heard: Dallas is no longer the city of J.R. Ewing. Mayor Tom Leppert said as much during the topping-off ceremony at the convention center hotel, ... More >>

Dallas One Step Closer to Return to TV

​Eleven long months ago we got word that while there'd be no big-screen Dallas, TNT was eying a small-screen revisit to Southfork. Since then, nothing -- at least, not till today. The Turner-owned network confirms that "an updated version of the classic TV series" is indeed among the four pilots o ... More >>

Tonight at Fest, a Film That Really Does Blend Dallas With "International"

Patrick MichelsJames Gillies and Sharon MacDonald of Scotland were among hundreds of fans who traveled to Southfork in November '08.​Back in November 2008 Patrick Michels and I schlepped out to Southfork Ranch for that clusterfudge of a Dallas reunion, for which thousands of people flew in from al ... More >>

Michael Manos Was Living the Same Lie in Dallas That He Peddled Across the Country. Only Here, the Truth Caught Up with Him.

Dallas After Dark: Tomorrow Night, It's Lights Out, Yet Again, For Earth Hour

Justin TerveenDowntown Dallas as it looked during last year's Earth Hour​Speaking of our pal Justin ...Last year we enlisted him to shoot the city as it went dark for World Wildlife Fund's Earth Hour. Only problem: Despite the lengthy list of buildings scheduled to join the 60-minute blackout, it ... More >>

Big D Romance

Advertisements for Itself: Or, Dallas Is Great City in Which to "Jump on the Hood of a Car"

Burn Notice creator Matt NIx, also responsible for the working-titled Code 58​Just a quick follow-up about Code 58, the FOX buddy-cop series set to shoot here beginning January 26 with Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks. Yes, yes, as the great Ed Bark noted yesterday on something called LocateTV.com ... More >>

Dallas to Host Olympics: Don't Laugh, it Could, Maybe, Conceivably, in Theory Happen.

​Was chatting up Michael Johnson the other day about the relative impact of the looming Super Bowl XLV in comparison to what he's seen happen to Olympic cities. Economic impact, enduring legacies, improved infastructures and whatnot. Johnson, a five-time gold medalist and Dallas' most de ... More >>

There's Probably Not Gonna Be a Dallas Movie. But a New TV Show? Looks Like It.

Patrick MichelsLarry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray at Southfork Ranch at the Dallas reunion in November '08​Can't believe it -- we get to use our "Ugh, More New About the Dallas Movie" slug again, long after that remake died a slow death some time in '07. Only this time, according to The Ne ... More >>

Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray, Probably Not the Best Name for A.M. Random Notes

I swear ... this guy looks so familiar.Some random notes this a.m. -- so till Merten decides to get back in gear with his Virtual Coffee, how 'bout a First Smoke of the Day? Like this puff (piece) from New York magazine concerning New York City Opera's new director, some guy named George Steel ... s ... More >>

Buzz Reviews the News of 2008: Yes. It Was All Bad.

Sex clubs in the 'burbs, teacher layoffs in the district, black holes in the commissioners court—Buzz makes perfect sense of 2008

Put a Southfork In 'Em, or: How Some Folks Came to Dallas to Waste Thousands

Tomorrow, Back to Dallas (Bonus Video: Starring Brad Pitt as "Randy"!)

Campaign Flashback: Perot for Prez! And Other Political Grab-Bag Goodies.

"Dallas, You Merciless Universe!"

Dallas No Dallas? Y'Don't Say.

How Lowe Can Dallas Movie Go?

What Felled Oakley?| The M Word| Rounding the Cape| Its a Crying Shame| Correction

Dead Dallas? More 'n Likely.

At This Point, Feel Free to Write In "Unfair Park" on Your Ballot Tomorrow

Free Pair o' Tix to Craziest Concert Line-up Ever

How Dallas Helped and Hurt Dallas

It Was All a Dream

J.R.'s Not Dead. He's Just Resting.