Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure

Dynasty The Making of a Guilty Pleasure is a 2005 American television movie based on the creation and behind the scenes production of the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty. It was broadcast on ABC onJanuary 2005.

The following dramatization includes time compression and composite and fictionalized characters and incidents.In 1980, ABC development executive Vince Peterson John Terry meets with producer Aaron Spelling Nicholas Hammond, looking for a series featuring greed and manipulation and sex and power and vanity to battle against CBS hit nighttime serial Dallas and make it look like Sesame Street. Writers Richard and Esther Shapiro Pamela Reed and Ritchie Singer are already developing their own modern take on I, Claudius, and Dynasty is conceived. From the beginning, Esthers intent to explore real social issues and not have the show be an inane soap with beautiful people and beautiful clothes clashes with the network and advertisers squeamishness with homosexual character Steven, the first openly gay character on a prime time drama series. John Forsythe Bartholomew John the voice of Charlies Angels Charlie and Linda Evans Melora Hardin are cast as Blake and Krystle Carrington. With the new series atin the ratings, ABC pushes for Steven to be cured, and Richard conceives a female J. R. Ewing Blakes bitter exwife Alexis. Soon Dynasty welcomes Heather Locklear Holly Brisley as sexpot Sammy Jo, and Joan Collins Alice Krige as villainess Alexis. ........

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