. the 19 sefs are disappearing slowly but surely. 1980 will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! there s something the television world. the landscape was on any given evening nine out of ten people were watching any one of the three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. it s television s prime time pot boiler. dallas. it would ruin our family name. i assure you a thought like that never crossed my mind. dallas literally captivated america for 13 years. it s a television show which is rooted in the 1970s and one of the things that emerges is jr. ewing. tell me, j. r. whoever it is it s got to be more interesting than the slut like i m looking at now. h he was enam ovrd by so many. it would become news overnight. [ gunshot ] the national obsession in 1980 around who shot j. r. it s hard to imagine obsessed we all were with that question, but with we are. who shot j. r. is about as ideal a cliff-hanger than
appy businessman to fail at casinos in atlantic city. this one was acquired out of bankruptcy by real billionaire carl icahn. it had been sitting empty for seven years, until it was finally demolished at 9:07 a.m. by virtue of dynamite. kaploom. now this one small corner of america can finally move on from trump. the mayor, marty small, called ate truly great day in atlantic city. the truly great day comes as president biden made clear last night that he, too, is eager to move on from trump. i m tired of talking about donald trump. don t want to talk about him anymore. for four years, all that s been in the news is trump. the next four years, i want to make sure all that s in the news is the american people. i m tired of talking about trump. good applause line. likewise in her first network interview with the today show this morning, vice president kamala harris wouldn t take the orange-tinted bait. do you think that president trump should be criminally charged? you
now on bbc news, it s dateline, london. hello, i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, bbc specialists, and those journalists who ve worked as foreign correspondents, filing stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week: will there be enough vaccine doses? the uk closes its doors to some but infuriates china by opening them to kong hongers. and what a disputed prime ministerial visit tells us about the future of the union. on dateline s panel this week: janet daley, whose columns appear weekly in the sunday telegraph. jeffrey kofman is a former tv anchor and foreign correspondent in canada and the united states. and here with me in the studio is vincent knee, a china specialist with bbc world news. warm welcome to all of you. the european commission has been piling pressure on the vaccine manufacturer astrazeneca all week, angry that millions of doses it agreed to supply to the eu before the en
hello, i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, bbc specialists, and those journalists who ve worked as foreign correspondents, filing stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week: will there be enough vaccine doses? the uk closes its doors to some but infuriates china by opening them to kong hongers. hong kongers. and what a disputed prime ministerial visit tells us about the future of the union. on dateline s panel this week: janet daley, whose columns appear weekly in the sunday telegraph. jeffrey kofman is a former tv anchor and foreign correspondent in canada and the united states. and here with me in the studio is vincent knee, a china specialist with bbc world news. warm welcome to all of you. the european commission has been piling pressure on the vaccine manufacturer astrazeneca all week, angry that millions of doses it agreed to supply to the eu before the end of march may be cut by
a move like that will destroy all of ewing oil. a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes, i ll stop you from destroying ewing oil. it literally captivated america for 13 years. dallas is a television show which is rooted in the 1970s and one of the crazy things that emerges is this character j.r. ewing. tell me, which slut are you going to stay with tonight? he was such a delicious villain. everyone was completely enamored by this character. so many people were watching television that you could do something so unexpected that it would become news overnight. the national obsession in 1980 around who shot j.r., it s hard to imagine how obsessed we all were with that question. but we were. who shot j.r. is about as ideal a cliffhanger as you possibly may get. the people who produced that program are going to keep us in suspense for as long as they can. we shot j.r. and broke for the summer. then the actors went