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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gabriel Maxwell" data-source="post: 124272" data-attributes="member: 121">Thank you very much, Alexis. That was full of great behind-the-scenes tidbits.After all these years, we can still learn something new. So, the show could've significantly changed - not necessarily for the better - had ABC renewed it for season 3.If I'm not mistaken, this rumor came from Gordon Thomson's 2009 radio interview, which I recall being discussed on the board at the time. Perhaps someone with an axe to grind made it up and spread among the cast back in the day?I think Channing was supposed to have been a poor man's Fallon that a petulant Miles married on a whim just to spite the real Fallon whom he was still unhappily in love with. I disliked her myself in the beginning, but grew to feel sorry for her, her manipulations notwithstanding. She was essentially a tragic character.According to my own research from digital newspaper archives for that Colbys Development thread of mine I posted way back in 2008:One of the frontrunners for the role of Jason Colby was Burt Lancaster. Charlton Heston was the producers' second choice after the negotiations with Lancaster failed in June 1985. Meanwhile, they were also talking to Hollywood superstars Faye Dunnaway and Elizabeth Taylor to play regulars on THE COLBYS.  It was then reported Doris Day was also in negotiations to join THE COLBYS as was James Coburn, who would play - Blake Carrington's brother Ben. By early July, negotiations with Heston had almost been completed and the producers began talking to Angie Dickinson to play his wife Sable. The casting of Charlton Heston was officially confirmed on July 9, 1985. By July 29, it was reported that Angie Dickinson might not join the new series and that Susannah York and Elizabeth Ashley were next in line to take on the role of Sable Colby. The casting of Katherine Ross as Francesca was announced on August 5. Three days later it was reported that Stephanie Beacham "a household name in Britain, has beaten out Angie Dickinson for the role of Charlton Heston's wife on ABC's DYNASTY II: THE COLBYS.Too bad I forgot to re-read that whole thread before coming up with my questions. Perhaps there would've been a doozy that Paul could've confirmed or denied. Oh, well.Yes, where did that Evans part come from anyway? Though she never appeared on The Colbys like Collins, I never read anywhere (except here) that she explicitly refused to do it or heard her say it in an interview -- unlike Joan Collins who was very vocal about her disdain for The Colbys, for her personal reasons, viewing it as a threat for her golden goose. In fact, by 1986 Evans seemed simply more focused on leaving Dynasty as a whole and had to be persuaded to renew her contract a couple more times through 1988. It just doesn't seem like Evans to follow suit with Collins on that one.One could of course somewhat patronizingly suggest if he had caught more than a glimpse and got fully immersed in the brilliant fictional universe of Dynasty's season 9, he might have actually liked what they did with his characters.Or one might be very glad Huson said that, re-affirming one's own feelings about the liberties taken with the Colbys characters, e.g. Jason turning his back on Miles & Monica (as grateful as one may have been Beacham had re-appeared on Dynasty).LOL, there's your next interview, Alexis. The ultimate villains here at the lily pond.</blockquote>

Verification: What month follows July?