Original Article on New York Magazine

Here we go again: According to TV Guide, TNT is moving full steam ahead on its remake of the classic eighties nighttime soap Dallas, and the network is even negotiating deals with Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, and Linda Gray to join the cast and reprise their old roles. "It's a perfect sequel to continuing the Dallas tradition," Duffy told TV Guide, but is it? TV is already littered with plenty of failed remakes (and there's plenty more on the way, as Vulture told you earlier today), and if the producers of Dallas aren't careful, they'll walk into the same traps that doomed those shows. Here are three lessons they should follow from the misfires that came before them. Don't bring back the old actors. Hasn't Dallas learned anything from the C...(read more)