Dallas star Patrick Duffy has insisted that his late co-star Larry Hagman will be given a "sensitive" send-off.
Hagman's oil tycoon character JR Ewing will be killed off in a whodunnit murder plot, intended to reflect the hugely successful 'Who Shot JR?' storyline from the original Dallas.
"We'll be dealing with the situation [of Larry's passing] in a really artistically sensitive, correct way," Duffy - who plays Bobby Ewing - told the Los Angeles Times.
"In lesser hands - more commercial hands, if you will - my fear is that it might not have been done nearly so well."
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Exec producer Cynthia Cidre also promised that JR's exit storyline will be the character's "masterpiece".
"Our mission is to give Larry Hagman and JR a proper send-off," she said. "This is a character who will have the last laugh, no matter what."
New episodes of Dallas air on TNT on Monday nights and transmit on Channel 5 in the UK the following day.
