Dynasty Trivia | 40 facts about the reboot

«Dynasty» is an American drama TV series based on the 1980s prime time soap opera of the same name.

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1. Dynasty is an American drama television series based on the 1980s prime time soap opera of the same name.
2. It was developed by Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, and Sallie Patrick.
3. The first season stars Elizabeth Gillies as Fallon Carrington, Grant Show as her father Blake Carrington, Nathalie Kelley as Blake’s new wife Cristal, and James Mackay as his son Steven, with Robert Christopher Riley as chauffeur Michael Culhane, Sam Adegoke as tech billionaire Jeff Colby, Rafael de la Fuente as Sam “Sammy Jo” Jones, Cristal’s nephew and Steven’s love interest, and Alan Dale as Joseph Anders, the Carrington majordomo.
4. The series later introduced Alexis Carrington (Nicollette Sheridan/Elaine Hendrix), Blake’s and Jeff’s ex-wife and the mother of Adam, Steven, Fallon and Amanda, Anders’s daughter Kirby (Maddison Brown), Blake’s third wife Cristal Jennings (Ana Brenda Contreras/Daniella Alonso), Blake and Alexis’s long-missing son, Adam Carrington (Sam Underwood), Blake’s half-sister and Jeff and Monica’s mother Dominique Deveraux (Michael Michele), Fallon’s husband Liam Ridley (Adam Huber), and Alexis’s secret daughter by Blake, Amanda Carrington (Eliza Bennett).
5. The pilot, which was announced in September 2016, was ordered to series in May 2017.
6. Dynasty premiered on October 11, 2017, on The CW in the United States, and on Netflix internationally a day later.
7. On November 8, 2017, The CW picked up Dynasty for a full season of 22 episodes.
8. On February 3, 2021, the series was renewed for a fifth season, which premiered on December 20 of the same year.
9. In May 2022, it was announced that the fifth season will be its final season.
10. The final episode aired on September 16, 2022.
11. The pilot includes a flashback of a young Steven playing the original Dynasty theme by Bill Conti on piano.
12. An updated, 15-second version debuted as an opening credits sequence in the 1980s-themed third episode, “Guilt is for Insecure People”, but is only used in some episodes. Composer Paul Leonard-Morgan worked with Troy Nõka to get “an ’80s-rock vibe” for the song, to match Leonard-Morgan’s soundtrack for the series.
13. The new theme was recorded with an orchestra at Capitol Records in Hollywood, featuring Los Angeles Philharmonic lead trumpet player Tom Hooten.
14. In the season two premiere “Twenty-Three Skidoo”, Gillies sings a 1920s version of “Bizarre Love Triangle” by New Order.
15. In the season three episode “Something Desperate”, Fallon hallucinates four musical numbers, sung by Gillies, Underwood, Show, Alonso, and De la Fuente.
16. In the season four episode “Vows Are Still Sacred”, Gillies sings “More Than Me”, a song she wrote in collaboration with her husband, Michael Corcoran. A studio version of “More Than Me” was released on the Lakeshore Records YouTube channel on May 18, 2021, and on digital music platforms on May 21, 2021.
17. The pilot was filmed in Atlanta.
18. On May 10, 2017, the Dynasty reboot received a series order at The CW.
19. A preview trailer was released on May 18, 2017.
20. Sheridan’s casting was a key factor in the decision to give Dynasty a back nine order of episodes after the initial 13.
21. In May 2019, Deadline Hollywood reported that co-executive producer Josh Reims would succeed Sallie Patrick as executive producer and showrunner for season three.
22. Production of Dynasty was suspended in March 2020 as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
23. Filming of only twenty of the twenty-two ordered episodes of the third season had been completed at that time.
24. It was later confirmed that the 20th episode of the season, “My Hangover’s Arrived”, would serve as the season finale, though it has not been announced whether the remaining two episodes of the season will be produced later.
25. It was reported that if production resumed by late fall 2020, season four would be expected to premiere in spring 2021 or later, and The CW’s president Mark Pedowitz announced that all of the network’s series would be producing “our normal episodic counts” for the post-pandemic season.
26. Production on the fourth season officially began on October 15, 2020.
27. on February 3, 2021, ahead of its fourth season premiere, The CW renewed the series for a fifth season, which premiered on December 20, 2021.
28. Filming for season five took place between October 22, 2021 to August 2, 2022. On May 12, 2022, The CW announced the fifth season would be Dynasty’s last .
29. An opening-scene flashback in the first episode shows a young Steven playing, on the piano, the theme from the original series.
30. The champagne the characters drink is actually sparkling water with a hint of tea for color.
31. Grant Show (Blake Carrington) and Katherine LaNasa (Ada Stone) are married in real life. They previously starred together in the last season of Devious Maids.
32. Every episode title, aside from ‘A Well-Dressed Tarantula’ and ‘A Line From the Past,’ is a reference to a line from the original Dynasty series.
33. ‘Enter Alexis’ and ‘New Lady in Town’ reference the episode titles of the same name from the original series, in which Alexis Carrington and Dominique Deveraux are formally introduced, respectively.
34. Reunites Elizabeth Gillies (Fallon Carrington) and Elaine Hendrix (Alexis Carrington) they originally starred together in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
35. Both Michael Michele and Kelly Rutherford appeared in Gossip Girl (2007) as respectively Serena’s boss in Los Angeles and Serena’s mother, Lily.
36. Grant Show’s Melrose Place costar Heather Locklear starred in the original Dynasty in the 80s.
37. Just like the original Δυναστεία (1981), the show’s German title is “Der Denver-Clan” which translates to “The Clan of Denver” – even though the remake is set in Atlanta.
38. They even make fun of the idea of the Denver location as being far too cold in Dynasty: I Hardly Recognized You (2017).
39. In addition to reworked characters and plotlines, the reboot contains multiple visual homages to the 1980s series, including props and wardrobe
40. Fallon also has a middle name which is Morell. She even used it when naming her company—the Morell Green Energy Corporation.