Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure

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Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure is a television movie based on the behind the scenes details of the television series Dynasty. Airing on January 2, 2005, on ABC, the movie received mixed reviews both for content and for historical accuracy, and was criticized by all three of Dynasty's leads, John Forsythe, Linda Evans, and Joan Collins, in different press releases. The movie was filmed in Australia (rather than Los Angeles) and a good majority of the cast members were non-Americans.

Much dramatic licence was taken with the script, so it is not an accurate guide to either behind-the-scenes nor the on-screen storylines of Dynasty.

This includes Al Corley being written-out in the oil-rig explosion (Corley had already long left the show when the explosion was devised as a way to reintroduce the character and to explain his change in appearance), Sammy Jo at the wedding massacre scene (Her character was actually in New York, involved in a separate storyline) and Amanda killed-off in a car accident (She was not; Catherine Oxenberg left the show and the role was recast with Karen Cellini).

Furthermore, the movie makes no reference at all to long-running original characters Fallon Carrington, Adam Carrington, Jeff Colby and Claudia Blaisdel.