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David Jacobs on How He Created ‘Dallas’ and ‘Knots Landing’—and Changed Primetime TV

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David Jacobs, creator of “Dallas” and “Knots Landing,” tells Tim Teeman about making J.R. mean, inventing the modern primetime soap, and why Dallas’ 2012 reboot “just didn’t work.”