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The premiere of "Dallas" — TNT's reboot of the classic series — averaged 6.8 million viewers on Wednesday, making it the No. 1 scripted series premiere on all of cable so far this year.

They’ve learned nothing. It’s the 21st century, filmed in rich “Friday Night Lights” hues of dappled sunbeams, and Bobby Ewing still leads with his heart, gullible as ever. Sue Ellen Ewing, the ex-wife triumphant, never stopped looking for the ladder’s next rung, campaigning now to become Texas’ next governor. That snake J.R.

The former TV critic for Salon writes in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine that the new series — it isn’t a “remake,” because it’s a “continuation” – is too slick, too insincere, too Hollywood, with its bland young stars who remind her of Abercrombie & Fitch models, or actors in “a swashbuckling high-capitalist adventure directed by Michael Bay,” or the cast of any prime-time soap: “just another gaggle of energetic, beautiful people with international ambitions and very little body hair, bedding and double-crossing one another…”

Turner Broadcasting told advertisers at the annual "upfront" presentation that it plans to add 14 new original shows to its TNT and TBS cable networks. They include a remake of "Dallas," with Larry Hagman reprising his role as J.R. Ewing.