Stephanie: Joan and I would do Dynasty revamp

Stephanie: Joan and I would do Dynasty revamp
Stephanie: Joan and I would do Dynasty revamp (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Stephanie Beacham says she's been discussing a revival of 80s TV hit Dynasty with old pal Joan Collins. The pair starred in the US drama which ran for the best part of a decade following the lives of the Carrington family, and also featured Linda Evans. Another TV staple of the era, Dallas, was given a makeover and proved to be popular on Channel 5 last year, although its star Larry Hagman - who played oil baron JR Ewing - died in November. British actress Stephanie, 65 - who has gone on to appear in Coronation Street - said on ITV's Loose Women that she would be up for a Dynasty reunion. She told the presenters: "Joan and I have been talking about it and we need a little bit of response and a little bit of encouragement." After being cheered on by the studio audience, she went on: "I can see Joan in one turret and Linda in another and me in another and all the youngies can do all the busy stuff and we'll just plot and plan." Dynasty ran for nine series until being cancelled in 1989, and famously featured the 'Moldavian massacre' in 1985, as terrorists burst into a wedding and left viewers wondering whether the leading characters had been killed off. Stephanie has also been a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother, but said that although she enjoyed the experience, she had no interest in watching the show which launched again on Channel 5 last week. She said: "I adored it but I'd never seen it and I never want to see it and I haven't seen it. But living it was a strangely spiritual experience."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.