This Week's Hot Headlines

New true crime TV show leads this week's 5 most-read Dallas stories

Editor's note: A lot happened this week, so here's your chance to get caught up. Read on for the week's most popular headlines.

1. Crime TV show covers cheerleader rapes in small Dallas-Fort Worth town. Cheerleaders in the small town of River Oaks who were targeted by a rapist and murderer are featured in a new crime series on Investigation Discovery TV. Called Murder Under the Friday Night Lights, the series comprises six episodes focusing on crimes that have all taken place around high school football. The series debuts on January 4 and will air on ID on Tuesdays at 9 pm. (There was Cheer-ier cheerleading news later in the week, too.)

2. Blake & Gwen's wedding takes the cake in our 10 hottest Dallas society stories of 2021. This year's most-read society stories included recaps of fancy galas and the sad deaths of two Dallas media personalities. But it was a story about a big wedding of "American royalty" that readers clicked on the most.

3. Master list of Dallas restaurants hosting 2022 New Year's Day brunch. New Year's felt a little easier to handle in 2021. With New Year's Eve falling on a Friday and New Year's Day falling on a Saturday, there's plenty of cushion to celebrate, recover, and you even get an extra weekend day (Sunday) to recover from your recovery. With both Saturday and Sunday open, you can anticipate the brunchiest weekend of all at these restaurants. What better way to start 2022.

4. 5 annoying buzzwords that Dallas definitely needs to let go of in 2021. There are five phrases that have become hot buzzwords in the past year or so, and they absolutely must be wiped out, this writer says. These are words and phrases that have snuck into the vernacular, and they should all be repelled by anyone who loves the English language.

5. The 10 worst movies of 2021 aren't worth seeing in any setting. 2021 will likely go down as the year when movie-watching changed forever, but the one thing that didn't change is the fact that there are still plenty of bad movies to go around. None of these films were worth giving more than one viewing, our critic said — including, unfortunately, a buzzy movie filmed around Fort Worth. (Our list of the 10 best movies of the year is here.)

Cheerleaders were targeted by a rapist and murderer.

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Cheerleaders were targeted by a rapist and murderer.

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Lights, Camera, Action

Taylor Sheridan sets new 'Frisco King' series in buzzy Dallas suburb

Samuel L Jackson in Frisco King/NOLA King

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Frisco King, filming in DFW, will star Samuel L. Jackson.

New Orleans’ loss is North Texas’ gain. NOLA King, a forthcoming spinoff of the Paramount+ series Tulsa King, is relocating from the Big Easy to the Dallas suburbs, with a new name to boot. The new show — which is now titled Frisco King — will take place primarily in Frisco, Texas, according to The Wrap entertainment news website.

Ironically, the crime drama will be set in one of the country’s safest suburbs, which is home to nearly 250,000 people. Booming Frisco is also home to several major employers, including the Dallas Cowboys, Keurig Dr Pepper, PGA of America, and T-Mobile USA.

Production of Frisco King is scheduled to start next month in Fort Worth, The Wrap reported. Paramount+ announced the Tulsa King spinoff last July, with Samuel L. Jackson in the lead role.

The final two episodes of the third season of Tulsa King, which kicked off in September, introduced Jackson’s character, mafia hitman Russell Lee Washington Jr. Jackson will be an executive producer of Frisco King.

By all accounts, Frisco isn’t a hub for mafia figures like Jackson’s character. However, the Civello crime family was active in Dallas in the 1950s and ’60s.

Prolific writer, director, and producer Taylor Sheridan, who lives on a ranch in Weatherford, will write all eight episodes of the first season of Frisco King. Sheridan, an executive producer for both of the King shows, is the creative force behind a host of other hit streaming series, including Yellowstone, 1883, 1923, Mayor of Kingstown, Lioness, and Landman.

“We are honored to have Taylor Sheridan write the first season of Frisco King and bring to life Samuel L. Jackson’s iconic character,” says Matt Thunell, president of Paramount Television Studios. “Having him pen all episodes of the season with his singular voice will be a treat for fans of Tulsa King and audiences around the world.”

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