Bring it back?
Its been 25 years....and they brought back Dallas.
so....why or why not?
The nighttime soap opera is long dead for a show like Falcon Crest. I liked the show but no one would watch it these days. I think that is what the new Dallas quickly found out.
shareI think the reason the new Dallas did not work out is because TNT kept moving it around on the schedule and there was a severe lack of characters that fans of the original Dallas could recognize. They focused a bit to much on the kids and the cartel when the focus should have been on characters from the original series. Don't get me wrong...the younger characters were interesting but the original characters are why I tuned in. But I do want to say something about bringing FC back...FC had a bad habit of killing all of their characters off. All that would be left now would possibly be Cole and Lance and Richard and Emma and maybe Julie. Personally the only way I'd tune back in is if they figured out a way to get Melissa back. For example...Angela hid Melissa away in a psych ward for the last 25 years and faked her death. Then again...that's the old kind of soap. No the new.
share"FC had a bad habit of killing all of their characters off. All that would be left now would possibly be Cole and Lance and Richard and Emma and maybe Julie. "
Like the new Dallas, a resurrected Falcon Crest would more likely focus on the next generation. Cole did have a son with Melissa, Joseph. Lance also had a daughter with Pilar and Pilar was expecting another baby when the show ended. Richard also had two sons, Michael and Kevin. Emma also had a daughter named Angela.
I think a reboot of "Dallas" or "Falcon Crest" would do better as a Netflix or Amazon series instead of on a network.
I was hoping "Dallas" could have moved to a streaming service, but licensing deals reportedly prevented that.
"The nighttime soap opera is long dead for a show like Falcon Crest."
Tell that to the producers of Empire or Scandal. TV is cyclical. What's out one day, will be in again another day.
I would accept the last three seasons being a dream or swept under the rug if it meant the return of Robert Foxworth, Susan Sullivan, and Ana Alicia.
Or just wipe out that horrid last season. You could explain away the resurrections of Chase and Melissa pretty easily. Focus on the younger generation and have some of the old cast on as recurring.