Patrick Duffy

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 >>

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 >>

"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 >>

Ever Wanted to Own J.R. Ewing's Hats and Boots? Larry Hagman's Having a Garage Sale.

Ro Kim's original painting of Jim Davis as Jock Ewing can now be yours.​TNT's still in and around town shooting that next-gen Dallas pilot; Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy and the kids are due to wrap this week, after which network execs will decide whether to move ahead with a full series ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Will That Dallas Reboot Be Shot in Dallas? And Will It Be Without J.R. Ewing? Stay Tuned.

​Over the weekend, a local TV-bizzer sent to Unfair Park this TV Guide piece about the future of TNT's Dallas reboot and whether or not it'll include one J.R. Ewing. Late last week, there was a report that Larry Hagman was out on the Cynthia Cidre-penned relaunch -- something to do with lack of su ... More >>

SMU and "Pony Excess": The Scars Remain

No one from the 1980s pay-for-play scandals remains at SMU, but the stigma - and the residue from the NCAA's Death Penalty - remain on the Hilltop. Those wounds may not be re-opened, but they'll certainly be re-visited Saturday night when ESPN presents its latest 30 for 30 documentary: "Pony Exces ... 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 >>

Now, There's a Writer for the Small-Screen Dallas Do-Over. Ewing Excited Yet?

​We're probably a long ways off from finding out if TNT and Warner Bros. TV plan on shooting their small-screen Dallas remake in Dallas. Which hasn't stopped me from leaving messages all morning for Janis Burklund, head of the Dallas Film Commission, to see if she knows what's what on the heels of ... 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 >>

Dallas Cast Reunion Leaves Fans Southforked

Thirty years after Dallas, fans worldwide came, saw and were conquered.

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"!)

It Was All a Dream

Ewing Don't Want to Eat with J.R.?