Josh Henderson has a big Stetson to fill!

Stepping into TNT’s new version of the fan favorite, and acclaimed, primetime soap Dallas as John Ross, J.R.’s son, Henderson is being set up to be the new character we love to hate. He has to be charming; he has to be cunning; he has to both recall the sweet towheaded tyke we last knew him as and inspire the new wave of ruthless businessman. Yes, indeed, it’s a tall order.

“John Ross feels like he has a lot to live up to,” Henderson admitted to LA TV Insider Examiner when we caught up with him at a press conference for the show in Los Angeles last month.

“As much as he and J.R. didn’t necessarily have a good father-son relationship, he definitely admires J.R., and he wants to live up to that. He feels like it’s his duty and his birthright to carry the Ewing name to the next generation.”

Henderson shared that one of the most exciting things about slipping into John Ross was getting to explore who he was now and what type of man he became after watching his father work but ultimately being raised thousands of miles away from him. In some ways, the audience knows more of a truth about J.R. (Larry Hagman) than John Ross does, but in others, John Ross knows to never underestimate him. Surely his mother has warned him of that…

In the new installment, his Bobby is married to a character played by Brenda Strong (“Desperate Housewives”).

I have to ask the now 63-year-old Duffy if he will still have steamy sex scenes?

“The steamy love scenes are for the younger casts. Mine will be humid love scenes like a day in Hawaii where you’re sticky and not sweating,” he jokes.

The new “Dallas” features JR Ewing (Hagman) up to his old tricks of deception while his brother Bobby is enjoying a new marriage. Linda Grey is also back as Sue Ellen Ewing.

One wonders if other vintage cast members will show up at Southfork?

Duffy tells me, “Charlene Tilton as Lucy Ewing shows up in the first episode and so does Steve Kanaly as Ray Krebs. Ken Kercheval shows up as Cliff.

“The rule is if any of the old cast is still alive they’re still on the table. The option is always there,” he says.

Now a question as big as Texas: Will the love of Bobby’s life – Pamela Barnes Ewing a.k.a. Victoria Principal — be making a long awaited comeback?

“Pam was a fiery crash and had a deadly disease and then she disappeared into the mist. Is she still alive on the show? I don’t really know,” Duffy muses.

I asked him if the now 80-year-old Hagman still has all that JR Ewing bite.

“Of course, he does. If it wasn’t broke, we’re not going to fix it,” Duffy says of how the new series works.

“The thing is JR loves his brother, but he wants to be better than Bobby. At the same time if some outside forced messed with Bobby, JR would always have his back. I just wouldn’t trust him to walk across the street with Bobby’s $5 bill.”

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New photos in the Dallas Fan Gallery from today’s TNT TBS Upfront 2012.

Linda Gray & Josh Henderson were guests on Anderson this week and here’s two of the clips from their interview!

The date draws near for the premiere of TNT’s new version of Dallas, which follows a whole new generation of bickering Ewings, played by the likes of Josh Henderson and Jesse Metcalfe, as well as a few of the beloved older ones, like J.R. and Bobby (both Larry Hagman and Patrick Duffy reprise their iconic roles).

The show — which was shot in North Texas beginning in late 2011 and continuing through early this year — kicks off its ten-episode run on June 13 at 8 p.m. CT.

Meanwhile, word just went out that TNT is also planning a red-carpet “national premiere” of the show at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas on May 31, with the stars of the show set to turn up beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Critics screeners of the first seven episodes of the show went out last month, and early buzz has been very strong — suggesting that what sounded on paper like it would be cringe-inducing might yet turn out to be the surprise hit of the summer TV season.

The premiere event is still in the works, so other details remain undetermined, including how many episodes will be shown at the Winspear. No word, either, on whether the public can purchase tickets to the premiere, though we have questions into the PR folks, so as soon as we hear back, we’ll post.

UPDATE: The PR folks just emailed to let us know that the premiere episode will be shown at the Winspear, and that the entire cast is expected to attended. Alas, it’s invite-only, though there will be a special red-carpet area where fans can congregate and cheer the celebs as they arrive. More info when we get it.

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