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Linda Gray On DALLAS: "We're Not Finished With The Characters. We're Not Finished With The Show!"
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Dallas star Linda Gray (Sue Ellen Ewing) who is hoping and championing the return of the television reboot of Dallas to another cable home, appeared over the weekend at at the “Wings Over the Wetland: Beyond the Surface” philanthropic event in the city of Dallas.
Gray was chosen as the 2014 honorary chair for the fundraiser, which raises money to expand water and wildlife education curriculum and research programs for the John Bunker Sands Wetland Center, which serves as the hub of environmental and social interest for the 3,100 acres of man-made wetland habitat on the Rosewood Seagoville Ranch property located about 20 miles south of downtown Dallas.
When speaking to Dallas’ CultureMap.com about the status of the status of the beloved series since TNT canceled it after three seasons , Gray said,“I just talked to our producers today, and we’re thinking we have to find a new home. There are no bad feelings. It’s called show business for a reason, so in this industry, we’re always like, if one door shuts, another opens. But we also feel that we’re not finished. We’re not finished with the characters. We’re not finished with the show.”
As we have previously reported, Dallas showrunner Cynthia Cidre is actively pursuing a new home for the primetime soap and hopes to have news on this front in the weeks ahead!
Would you love to see Linda Gray get a chance to play Sue Ellen again? Do you think Dallas will land a new cable TV home soon? Comment below!
I love Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy. They are Dallas. Please let it be true. I want Dallas to continue or at least come to a real conclusion.
Loved Sue Ellen & Dallas then & now. More Dallas Please.
I would love to see it on a different channel, however I doubt if it would work. Look at what happened to AMC and OLTL.
That fell about due to funding and miss management. ABC will see their error and make corrections hopefully!
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Dallas is a classic, it will survive..
I agree, a new home! Leave it to Linda to say it with grace and spirit!
We can only hope if you love your show you need to watch and let the network know your watching dallas had such good acting and good writing is a sad thing we all need to get behind days so it dosnt happen to it to
Bring back Dallas! We all love it! Always have and always will!
I liked seeing linda gray judith light patrick Duffy and that dude from the xfiles but that was it the younger cast was generic especially elena!
Lifetime!
LOGO!
Come on, CBS. Now it your chance to have that DALLAS glory again.
I liked the show very disappointed it is cancelled. I wasn’t happy with some of the direction of the writing. I thought it was too much Emma and Christopher getting killed was too premature but I enjoyed the show.
Yes, please save Dallas. Best season yet!!
please bring Dallas to another network! Loved this show ever since it aired years ago. Wonderful actors!! Check updates everday hoping for good news soon
Some network has to give this show a fighting chance. Keep it on for a whole season instead of splitting it would certain help sustain continued interest. This show was/is fantastic! I really hope it finds another home.
I hope their efforts are successful. Nu-Dallas was so much mire entertaining than the original.
Give it up Linda. It’s already been brought back once and Larry’s no longer with us. It’s inconceivable to perceive the show like him. Besides, Dallas is a relic of another age.
TVGN would be a great home for Dallas
Please don’t give up on this show, work on getting more of the older cast back from retirement, find another network and get it going to at least finish it properly, not just telling all the fans its over, that is just not the right thing to do, too many of us loved the old Dallas, and tried to adapt and like the new one, I was lucky enough to be an extra cast in a couple of episodes, I am 100% certain I am not alone in my thoughts, bring it back to at least end it PROPERLY..!!!!
Yes, definitely bring Dallas back!! Once again I got hooked when I found out it was on another channel! Dallas was the beginning of my week, couldn’t wait to sit down on Monday nights to see it!!
Please bring Dallas back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do hope they find a new network to pick up the show. Dallas is a great show and the actors are phenomenal. I recommend they put it on Wedneday or Friday. Monday has too much competition. I am optimistic as well and do believe they will be back on another network. USA, TVGN, and possibly OWN.
I want more DALLAS!!!
More of Dallas – it’s too good to bite the dust !
Yes I absolutely agree!! We the fans need this show to continue its far from over its a great show with great actors. I watched the original Dallas from start to finish…and people young and old im telling you please do all you can to keep this series going you will not regret it. Im a loyal fan to the end!
I feel bad for Gray and Duffy. They certainly have shown loyalty to the show and really gave it their best effort in this version of “Dallas.”
That being said, the writers and the producers REALLY let down Gray and Duffy and the viewers with the (too numerous) mistakes that were made — uninteresting new characters, shifting the main focus from the Ewings to Elena and the Mexican drug cartel, putting Gray in the millionth version of “Sue Ellen’s on the bottle again” plot, missing numerous opportunities to introduce characters from the show’s history (Lucas Krebs? Margaret Krebs?).
I like the Ewings and “Dallas.” However, I did NOT like what this show had become. This “Dallas” was not about the Ewings (no family dinners, no genuine family friction but simply quick rehashing of past issues).
Linda, I appreciate everything that you’ve done for this franchise and I certainly like you. However, if the producers and the writers of this latest version of “Dallas” will continue to be involved in the show if (by a miracle) it finds a home, I’d prefer if things just ended now.
I was an on again, off again fan of the original, but really enjoyed the three seasons on TNT. I too thought there was too much of the drug cartel but it was easy to overlook when the writing was so good and I trusted the writers to bring everything around to an interesting conclusion at the end of each season. Performances, too, were top notch all the way around.
Hope that it can find a home somewhere else. But without zombies, gruesome horrors, meth, guns, stabbings, rapes, ADD editing, how can anything like Dallas survive on modern day TV?
More dallas please…….. #savedallas I love the show and always have it’s the best thing on TV.
More Dallas PLEASE!!
Yes, please find another cable channel and save Dallas. It is an amazing show. I have been watching the show since the beginning. with Jock, Ellie, Pamela, JR, Bobby, Lucy, Ray, and Sue Ellen. Keep with next Generation. There is still a lot of questions to be answered and plots to put together.
If not TNT please find another channel and save Dallas. I am so hooked, just like the original. This is one awesome show and will be very disappointed if it is cancelled. Please keep the show on.
I am terribly disappointed that Dallas was cancelled. Hopefully, they will find a way to come back. Has to be a better conclusion than the season ending finale. Too much left up in the air as to the fate of some of the characters. Please come back again.
CBS was the original network for Dallas. Les needs to make room on the network schedule for the 4th season. It would certainly be a Top 20 show.
Please bring Dallas back. I would love to see the same cast members back…Sue Ewing, Bobby Ewing, John Ross, Pamela, I.e….including Christopher. TNT rethink your previous decision…Please!!!
Hey all you Dallas fans…this is totally wrong. Dallas must live on! There is so much storyline that can be told. Excellent cast, excellent writing…….please someone listen to the fans and bring it back. love, carmelina from connecticut
I love the show and hope some other channel picks it up. I was a big fan of the show in the eighties.
No Dallas can’t be finished so I hope someone hurry and get a new home I can’t wait for Dallas to pick up where they left off even tho I don’t like the way it ended. So, yeah !!
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Priscilla Pointer, ‘Dallas’ On-Screen Mom to Victoria Principal, and Real-Life Mom to Amy Irving, Dies at 100
Hollywood veteran actress, Priscilla Pointer, best known to primetime soap opera fans for her role on CBS’ Dallas as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth passed away on Monday, April 28th. Pointer was 100.
Pointer had two famous “daughters.” On Dallas, Priscilla played the mother to Victoria Principal’s Pam Barnes. The actress recurred in the role of Rebecca Barnes Wentworth in seasons 4-6, while appearing in nearly 44 episodes on the iconic 80’s series.
In real-life, Priscilla is the mother to actress Amy Irving, and in fact, the two appeared in more than a half-dozen movies together including in Brian De Palma’s 1976 horror classic Carrie, starring Sissy Spacek.
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Taking to her Instagram upon the news of Pointer’s passing, Victoria Principal expressed, “My favorite TV mama and a wonderful woman passed away today. My sincere condolences to Amy Irving and all of Priscilla’s family. Always a special place in my heart.”
Meanwhile, Amy Irving’s official Instagram account shared more touching details of the moment when her mother passed on sharing: “Priscilla Pointer, May 18th, 1924-April 28th, 2025. Priscilla Pointer, acclaimed stage television and film actress, and mother of David, Katie, and Amy Irving, died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 100, hopefully to run off with her 2 adoring husbands and her many dogs. She most definitely will be missed.”
In addition, Priscilla also played the on-screen mom to Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Sean Penn in The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) and Kyle MacLachlan in Blue Velvet (1986). Throughout her lengthy TV career, Pointer also appeared in The Rockford Files, L.A. Law, The A-Team, Judging Amy and Cold Case to name but a few. However, it should be noted, Pointer got her first big break on the CBS soap opera, Where the Heart Is playing the role of Adrienne Harris Rainey back in 1972.
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‘Dallas’ Star Linda Gray Signs on as Executive Producer of Proposed Holiday-Themed TV Movie to Shoot at ‘Southfork’
Dallas star Linda Gray (ex-Sue Ellen Ewing) has signed on as executive producer of a proposed holiday-themed TV movie that would see her return to the former shooting location of her legendary primetime soap with a major twist.
Conceived as a love letter to the legions of Dallas fans, the project is a lighthearted romantic Christmas comedy, which finds Gray, and potentially Dallas co-star Patrick Duffy (ex-Bobby Ewing), back at Southfork Ranch playing all-new characters but in supporting roles to a pair of younger leads.
Teaming with Gray to shop the project is executive producer Larry Thompson, who cast the actress in last December’s hit Lifetime TV movie Ladies of the 80s: A Divas Christmas.
According to sources, one of Gray’s motivations for wanting to return to the real life Southfork Ranch in Parker, Texas, is to bid a proper farewell to the beloved filming location after TNT’s 2012-2014 Dallas reboot ended abruptly.
The TV-movie script, is written by former Hallmark Channel Home & Family producer William Keck (who also guest starred on General Hospital as Russell and gave Morgan Fairchild a lot of grief on-screen), was inspired by the 1937 film classic Topper, which cast Cary Grant and Constance Bennett as glamorous matchmaking ghosts.
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In this upcoming project, Gray and potentially Duffy would portray a pair of former co-stars, now deceased, who are steadfastly guarding their sacred homestead from a Taylor Swift-type pop princess who takes up residence to shoot a music video for her new holiday song. As part of their plan, the spirits plot to sabotage the young star’s budding romance with the ranch’s handsome caretaker.
While the Southfork ranch routinely hosts annual, well-attended holiday celebrations, the property was remarkably never shown decked out for Christmas in any Dallas episode.
This announcement follows the news that Lifetime is developing character-driven TV-movies themed from the legendary soap opera, All My Children, one also being holiday-themed.
So, what do you think about an holiday-themed TV-movie with Linda Gray as EP and co-star shot at Southfork? Would you be interested in seeing it come to fruition? Comment below.
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Lifetime’s ‘Ladies of the ’80s: A Divas Christmas’ Brings Epic Food Fight and “Slapfest Coup de Grâce”
Get ready for the feuding soap opera divas, when five actresses known for their signature primetime and daytime roles are brought together in Lifetime’s new holiday film, Ladies of the ’80s: A Divas Christmas.
Saturday night, December 2nd on Lifetime (8pm ET/7PM CT) marks the highly-anticipated holiday movie premiere featuring: Donna Mills (ex-Knots Landing), Nicolette Sheridan (ex-Knots Landing), Morgan Fairchild (ex-Falcon Crest et al), Linda Gray (ex-Dallas) and Loni Anderson (ex-WKRP in Cincinnati).
Here’s what we do know! In story, five alums from the long-running soap, The Great Lakes reunite for a live Christmas finale. Uh-oh! Now take a look at the backstory of the colorful cast of characters (pay special attention to the clever twists on the actresses names!)
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LAUREN EWING (Linda Gray) “Everyone thinks I’m so damn good all the time,” confesses the junk food-loving Lauren of her second act as a lifestyle guru. “I don’t know how Gwenyth Paltrow does it!”
DANA CUNNINGHAM (Donna Mills) Now a sitcom mom, she’s yet to make amends to ex-bestie Juliette after abruptly leaving the soap back in the day. Not that she hasn’t tried: “When I thought the world was going to end in Y2K,” Dana says, “I reached out to her, and she never called me back.”
LILY MARLOWE (Loni Anderson) After replacing Dana on ‘Great Lakes’, Lily never again found a role to win her acclaim. “What do I have to show for (my career)? An arc on For the People – Shonda Rhimes’ only flop!”
JULIETTE MATHESON (Nicollette Sheridan) “She left me for L.A.,” the party girl turned fashion mogul recalls of Dana’s betrayal. Will their feud derail the entire event?
MARGEAUX ROBERTS (Morgan Fairchild) “Fasten your face-lifts, ladies, it’s gonna be a bumpy weekend!” The sassy grande dame of ‘Great Lakes’ sees the Juliette-Dana beef as the perfect escape from her own domestic drama.
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Now, making this all the more hysterical is the director of The Great Lakes reunion special, which makes the five women live under the same roof, is its former child star Alex, who has gotten his ex-girlfriend, Nell to direct the finale. Meanwhile, in the subplot. the ‘Ladies of the ’80s’ come up with a plan to get Alex and Nell back together.
As with any good soap opera, there is a major food fight. Linda Gray shared with USA Today ,”The food fight was one take. And it was fabulous.” And of course, their is a bitch-fest slap-fest. Morgan Fairchild revealed, “Oh honey, we all got ours in. Mine was a simple, ‘How dare you?’ with a slap. But I was hoping for a punch.”
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The movie’s EP, Larry Thompson, who is a Hollywood manager and has Donna Mills as a client, said that the entire scene peaks with the”slapfest coup de grâce.” What is that exactly? That is when Donna Mills pushes Nicollette Sheridan into a pool in a nod to Dynasty’s Lily bond battle between Dynasty’s Alexis (Joan Collins) and Krystle (Linda Evans).
In case you missed it previously, check out the trailer for Ladies of the ’80s: A Divas Christmas below, also starring Patrika Darbo, Alec Mapa, Mills real-life daughter, Chloe Mills, and Christopher Atkins with theme song by Tiffany.
Now let us know, will you be tuning in to the movie for a premise that should delight many a longtime soap fan? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
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