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"Dallas star Patrick Duffy has admitted that he was initially wary of TNT&amp;#039;s new revamp. The revival of the classic soap has been picked up for a second season in the US and will premiere in the UK on Channel 5. &amp;quot;We heard the rumour that TNT and Warners wanted to do a Dallas series and then we got sent our scripts and we were prepared for the worst,&amp;quot; Duffy told What&amp;#039;s on TV. The 63-year-old actor explained that he had been put off the idea of a Dallas revival by &amp;quot;atrocious&amp;quot; treatments for a movie adaptation. &amp;quot;The show was off the air in 1991, and since then there have been so many rumours re-circulating like bad air,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;We even heard things like, &amp;#039;Oh, they want to do a big feature movie without us&amp;#039;.  &amp;quot;I read that movie script - it was atrocious, so awful. And then after a while we realised they could never do a feature film of Dallas for two reasons - for a start Dallas is a serial, so a feature-length movie... would have to be five hours long because it would need to roll in story after story.  &amp;quot;And the other reason is... nobody on the planet... would accept a JR Ewing other than Larry Hagman and that&amp;#039;s a fact. With a Larry Hagman substitute you&amp;#039;d just think, &amp;#039;No way!&amp;#039;&amp;quot;  Duffy added that scripts for the new Dallas series have &amp;quot;captured what the characters were about from the inside out&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;The reason why the scripts in the past for film ideas didn&amp;#039;t work was because they wrote us all off as caricatures - they didn&amp;#039;t get it,&amp;quot; he claimed. Dallas begins on Wednesday, September 5 at 9pm on Channel 5. &amp;gt; John Barrowman&amp;#039;s Dallas Q&amp;amp;A: &amp;#039;I stripped down in front of Linda Gray&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Stephanie Beacham on Dynasty revival: &amp;#039;Joan Collins would love it&amp;#039; Watch a teaser trailer for Dallas on Channel 5 below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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