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>>REPORTER: Welcome to the Ewing family home. During the original series, most of the interiors
were shot in Hollywood. This time around they’re being filmed entirely here on this sound stage,
in Dallas.
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>>Richard Berg: The thing that we were trying to capture the most is some sense of reality
in terms of we have old viewers, we have new viewers. So how do we bring in the old viewers
and create this environment that is somewhat acceptably familiar to them but at the same
time it allows the new viewers to sort-of see a new, refreshed, up-to-date Dallas. If
you look at the original Southfork, just the architecture from the outside, it’s actually
not a very big house so we realized that we’ve got to actually make a bigger interior than
what’s actually there on the exterior. So what we did is we paid special attention to
the windows on the exterior and tried to match windows with windows on the interiors of rooms.
I think it would be hard-pressed for someone, an old fan, to actually draw on paper how
they feel the layout of the house was beyond the front door, the dining room and then the
living room on the other side of the hallway. I mean we know there’s a kitchen but we
don’t know geographically where they all connect so that was actually a benefit to
us. It was very important to have this memory of the parents in the house and so I painted
this painting to actually take place of the original painting that was there which was
just of Jock alone so now we have Jock and Miss Ellie and it just becomes the centerpiece
of the house and they are the centerpiece of this family. We really left the house in
a way that it was almost like it’s been renovated. There’s been 30 years since the
last series and its gone through a few different generations of morphosis. This is history.
It’s television history, it’s television royalty really, and to be a part of it is
extremely exciting for me and my career.