The Sun
HERE'S the line-up for the remake of glitzy soap Dallas - and fans can't wait to get JR viewing. The smash hit saga about a Texas oil dynasty hits US TV screens again next year. Larry Hagman has been signed up to reprise his role as scheming JR Ewing - at the age of 79. He first played the part back in 1978 and was at the centre of the most famous Dallas storyline - "Who Shot JR?"
Other famous names from the first time round include Linda Gray, 70 - alias Sue Ellen - and Patrick Duffy, 62, who played JR's brother Bobby Ewing. Ten new episodes are being made for US network TNT, who say the series - screened here from 1978 to 1991 on BBC1 - will focus on the next generation of Ewings.
New recruit Jesse Metcalfe, 32 - who has starred in Desperate Housewives - said it will be even raunchier, describing his own debut as "a pretty risqué sex scene". He joked: "I come out on the show with a bang. Literally and figuratively."
TNT said of the new series: "We couldn't be more pleased with how Dallas has come together."
