
- Playing
- "Dallas," Your Pitiless Universe
- From
- Julia Barton
Update 2 [11/23/2012]: Larry Hagman dies in Dallas in the midst of shooting the new tv series for TNT.
Update [7/8/2011] TNT just announced that it's commissioned a full "Dallas" sequel. Website: http://www.tnt.tv/series/dallas/
notes: this feature aired, in modified form, on PRI's Studio 360
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Piece Description
Update 2 [11/23/2012]: Larry Hagman dies in Dallas in the midst of shooting the new tv series for TNT.
Update [7/8/2011] TNT just announced that it's commissioned a full "Dallas" sequel. Website: http://www.tnt.tv/series/dallas/
notes: this feature aired, in modified form, on PRI's Studio 360
Broadcast History
Studio 360, Feb. 18, 2011
Transcript
for transcript see: http://www.scribd.com/doc/49121934/Studio-360-Dallas-final
Read the full transcript
Timing and Cues
time to SOC: 13:00, with one minute music out
Intro and Outro
INTRO:"Dallas" star Larry Hagman died on November 23rd, 2012. But the prime-time soap that made him famous as J.R. Ewing lives on. The original show aired from 1978-1991, and the cable network TNT has been filming a new series based on the next generation of Ewings to booze, buy and slut forth from Southfork Ranch. What is it about the program that makes it one of the best known in the world? Dallas native Julia Barton explores this American icon.
OUTRO:This piece originally aired on PRI's Studio 360.






