The show didn't take off, however, until the second season when Joan Collins joined the cast as the scheming ex-wife to oil tycoon Blake Carrington, Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan. Alexis and her never-ending feud with Blake's new wife Krystle (shoulder pad aficionado Linda Evans) provided fodder for drag queens and memes for decades to come.
But it's 30 years later and LGBT characters are all over our television screens in myriad complex roles. And with primetime soaps like Empire (aka, the "the black Dynasty")—as well as the primetime catfight—popular with viewers again, the time is ripe for a Dynasty reboot.
Gossip Girl creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, Revenge writer-producer Sallie Patrick, and the original Dynasty’s creators, husband-and-wife duo Esther and Richard Shapiro, are overseeing the reboot.
