AP – Chasing Diamonds ended earlier this year when season five wrapped up. However, fans won't have to wait long for a special episode of the series to come to their screens.

Head writer & creator Dallas Walsh has tweeted out a series of suggestions that a Christmas special is on it's way for this year.

"Yes, it is true, there will be a Christmas episode," Dallas revealed to us. "When season five ended, I knew that I would have to take a step back from producing two series full time, but the set up of Diamonds is so great, that I knew I had to keep it going in some capacity."

What can we expect from the Christmas episode? "It is a longer episode because it's only one episode and there are plenty of fireworks," Dallas teases.

Expect the holiday special from Chasing Diamonds this December.

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July 02, 2018

To celebrate the final season of Chasing Diamonds, creator, Dallas Walsh has put together his top 10 favorite moments of the series. 2 moments will be released weekly until the series finale is the featured weekly episode. What do you think of the favorite moments?

Lydia drugging Lex, her own son, so he would sign over his shares of Rockwell Mining is one of my all-time favorite moments. The series was still relatively new, but I think this moment showed just how far Lydia would actually go to get what she wants. Drugging her own son was a vial thing to do, but she did it anyways. Of course, she would end up getting hers in future episodes, but I enjoyed this twist.

I've already gone into great details about how the original Dynasty series was a huge inspiration for me writing Chasing Diamonds. However, one thing that I did think was missing largely from the first two seasons was a good old school cat fight. There had been many verbal wars on the series, but this fight between Lydia and Sabine got physical in the hospital. I don't write a lot of cat fights, only because it can be difficult to explain every detail, but I did love this scene and hope that it did justice to the readers!

The reason this gets on my top 10 list is because it was a pretty big moment for these two as a couple. They met in episode one and had a classic soapy encounter where they didn't exactly get off on the right track, but the attraction was there. They continued to have run-ins and the chemistry grew. Of course, this is a soap, so she was engaged to Cole's father, Mac. They realized this at the engagement party and vowed to stay away from one another. After Celeste married Mac, he went away for business leaving her alone with Cole. A rain storm hit and they had sex. It was a moment that had been coming since episode one and I don't think it let any C&C fans down. It is still up there as one of the moments that defined the first season and them as a couple.

This was probably the highlight of the entire last season for me; the reveal that Lex's lover, Toby, was actually a figment of his imagination because Odette & Tanner had been gaslighting him. I've already discussed how I struggled with a concept of season 5 as a whole, but once I came up with this idea, the rest of the season really fell into place. I love that Lex was so far gone that he was having sex with someone he created. It's just so twisted! I had just finished watching RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 3, which is why I cast MILK in the role; naturally a man in Lex's mind would have to be super hot. Easily one of my all time favorite moments of the series!

When I first thought about doing this countdown, I was going to have each of these moments as separate moments, but since they happened in the same episode, literally scenes apart of each other, I decided to group them together. Cole's fall of the wagon the first half of season 4 was so much fun to write because the Rockwell's pride themselves on being this classy, upstanding family (anything could be further from the truth) so to have one of them deep into drugs was great to explore. I wrote Cole, while stoned, as being super horny and wanting to have sex all the time. In the previous season, I had Brock introduced as a trainer helping Cole after he was shot by Odette Williams. Brock had made it clear that he thought Cole was hot, but soon started dating Lex, Cole's brother. After Dixie left Cole alone to get more drugs, Cole was horned up and saw Brock, who had been fighting with Lex. One thing lead to another and Brock gave Cole a blow job. I love how Cole, who identifies as a straight man, was more than willing to get off with another guy's mouth. It was bold, but it felt very true to the character in that state of mind.
Following that, Cole had to go to court to testify in the custody hearing of Ashlee, the child Vivian was passing off as Celeste and Marat's child. The reason I love this scene so much is because Cole was absolutely ruthless to Celeste, who so far in the series was the love of his life. Cole being the main reason that Celeste didn't "her" child back was such a delicious twist, it stands out to me as one of my favorite moments.

This was the first real surprise at the start of the second season. Season 1 had ended with Stacey & Houston being involved in a car accident; in the premiere of season 2, Houston was announced dead (he would later be alive), but this was a pretty jarring way to start the new season of the series. For most of the first season, Houston and Stacey's budding romance was being built as an epic love story, so it felt like it was cut short by his death. However, his "death" did a number of things: 1 - freed up Stacey to be with Marat, which created a triangle when Houston came back and 2 - introduced Vivian Blackmore, Houston's mother, to the series. Vivian has been such a fun part of the series and this was a great introduction to the character because it's not often we see her that vulnerable.

By now, you all know that Chasing Diamonds was inspired by the original Dynasty. In one of the episodes of Dynasty, a crazed Claudia appeared to have kidnapped a child (I think it was Sammy Jo and Stephen's baby). They cornered her on a rooftop building and Claudia dropped the child to the ground. At the time, I thought this was so shocking; Dynasty killed a baby by dropping it off the roof of a building! Of course, it turned out that "child" was actually just a doll and the child was safe. But this twist really stuck with me. So, when I was thinking about how to kill Jarek, I was inspired by this idea. So, Jarek falling from the balcony of the Rockwell Mansion came to my mind. The fight with Brock was pretty epic, of course, resulting in Jarek falling to his death. After everything he had done to Lex, this was a fitting ending for the character, even though I missed writing him in the last couple of seasons.

For the majority of season's 1 & 2, Lucinda was a woman of all talk. There were many scenes of Lucinda threatening Lydia if she "hurt her family one more time". In season three, she finally made good of her word. Lydia was going to Russia to close a deal with Yuri, and her plane crashed. This resulted in everyone believing she was dead. However, a few episodes later (3.05) it was revealed that she was alive and well - and Lucinda was holding her hostage in a cage in Lucinda's basement! Lucinda had faked Lydia's death to remove her from her family and was going to hold her there until Lydia died. While alone in the cage, Lydia moved a piece of furniture and another secret room was revealed; in the room Lydia screamed when she saw another face from the past … an alive Houston! The Houston reveal (episode 3.08) was likely to be more of a surprise for the readers only because Lydia was such a core character and asset to the series, but I love that Lucinda's plan allowed for both characters to be alive and well. The fallout from this created a lot of fun storylines as well.

Part of the reason I love this is because Odette was barely featured in the majority of season four as she was in jail for shooting Cole the season before. Of course, she was seen here and there and we had a scene where Mac learned that she was getting out of jail early. I had already planned this huge gala, which are so fun to write because parties are soapy and dramatic. At the same time, I had been re-watching Melrose Place and one of the most iconic MP moments was Kimberly blowing up the apartment complex; I thought this would be so cool to do with Odette, so I had her blow up the Rockwell Mansion. I ended the season with the bombs going off. Part of the difficulty in my planning of season five was that I didn't know how to deal with the aftermath ... writing the aftermath of a bomb is not easy! Still, the moment was so much fun and it shook up the entire cast, which is always a good thing!

The time has come to announce my all-time favorite moment from Chasing Diamonds. There have been so many moments on this series that I really did love. It's been such a journey writing this series, and it has challenged me in ways I never thought possible. But, when I was looking over the 5 seasons, the moment of Mac and Lex learning that Kent is Lex's biological father was the stand out moment for me. In some ways, I actually wish this secret had been kept longer, because it was so juicy, but season 2's pace was really gold in my mind. The fact that this secret came out in episode 5 (meaning there was still 5 episodes to go!) was pretty huge. It easily could have been the season finale, but it was fun watching the aftermath unfold in the same season. The storyline was just classic soap opera too. Two rivals; one woman; a torrid affair; a baby, who is now a grown man. Everything Lex was and believed in was because he was Mac's son. So to change that dynamic was fun. It packed a lot of drama in this episode, and the following episodes.

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March 19, 2018