I didn’t know it either until yesterday morning (yes, I can be woefully behind on pop culture at times). Not a “reboot” as it turns out but a new series on cable network TNT that’s a continuation of the primetime drama that ran on CBS from 1978 to 1991 (not counting the ’85-’86 “Bobby Ewing/Only a dream” season).

So I tuned into Dallas, which I rarely do for a new television series. And lo and behold I enjoyed it quite a lot! It was like the Ewings had been going about their lives all this time and we caught up with them two decades later. Larry Hagman is back as the scheming J.R. Ewing, Patrick Duffy returns to the saddle as brother Bobby and Linda Gray – lovely as ever – has come back to the role of J.R.’s on-again/off-again wife Sue Ellen. But the real action is found ...