After 21 years and one of the biggest TV cliff-hangers of all time, Dallas returns to TV this June on TNT. Just don’t call the new series a reboot or a remake.
“I couldn’t imagine making a remake. We’ve seen it. There were 357 episodes,” Dallas executive producer Cynthia Cidre told reporters Saturday at TNT’s winter TV previews. “It just seemed natural to catch up with Ewing family 20 years later.”
When we return to Southfork, Bobby Ewing is happily re-married — to Desperate Housewives’ Brenda Strong! — and his adopted son, Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe) is desperate to push the Ewing family into a new, more environmentally minded direction away from oil. However, J.R.’s son, John Ross (Josh Henderson), has very different ideas about the family business. In case you were worried that the new Dallas would lack conflict, John Ross’ girlfriend Elena (The Fast and the Furious‘ Jordana Brewster) is also Christopher’s ex-fiancée. “[The script] honored all of the intricate elements of what Dallas was in the past, and basically, we’ve dropped back in 20 years later,” executive producer
