To no surprise, The CW has cancelled their remake of Melrose Place after just one season and 18 episodes.
The new Melrose Place revolves around the same apartment complex as the 1990s original but largely focuses on a new group of characters. The cast includes Katie Cassidy, Stephanie Jacobsen, Jessica Lucas, Michael Rady, Shaun Sipos, Colin Egglesfield, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, Nicholas Gonzalez, Victor Webster, and Brooke Burns. Appearances by actors Thomas Calabro, Laura Leighton, Heather Locklear, Josie Bissett, and Daphne Zuniga help kept ties to the original alive.
In September, despite a lot of promotion, the first episode attracted a small 1.3 rating in the 18-49 demo and 2.31 million viewers. The numbers fell after that and never came close to even matching the premiere’s. The April 4th episode hit a season low, with a horrific 0.4 rating in the demographic and only .86 million viewers.
Even for The CW, the new Melrose Place’s ratings were absolutely terrible. Though the last episode of the season left many storylines up in the air, there was no way that it was going to be coming back.
Well, the network made it official this week. Melrose Place has been cancelled and won’t be returning for season two.
What do you think? Why didn’t this version catch on? Was it a bad idea from the start? Would it have survived if Heather Locklear signed on at the beginning or was including original characters part of why it failed?
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I agree with everyone……it really should be brought back. Give it another chance, it’s all about advertising and word of mouth. Although I am probably the most obsessed fan of the original series, I thought it would be hard to accept a “new” melrose, but it was actually really cool and now I need to know what happened?! Can’t leave us dedicated fans up in the air…..
CW should bring this back. We were die hard fans of the original and there was a good thing going with this new show. Good move getting rid of Ashlee Simpson-so not an actress!!! Needed more advertising! Really could have done a lot with this show!!!
But CW just keeps the dumb shows!!!
melrose place was a good show..i think it wasn’t given a enough chance, but facebook is signing a campaign to save melrose place and moving it out of CW to FX
I really liked the new Melrose Place. Bring it back.
Thomas Calabro, Nick Zano and Heather Locklear…. they need another chance.
The only thing I didn’t like was Ashley Simpson – her acting was poor.
More ties to original Melrose would’ve been nice — like the cast drinking at Shooters, for instance. I think dropping Ashlee Simpson was a good call (terrible actress!!), and Heather Locklear should’ve been around earlier in the season. The show is awesome and hopefully CW will consider bringing it back, if not for a half-season to tie together all the insane loose ends from the finale. What makes the new 90210 so much better than this? Both have mediocre acting, but guilty-pleasure story-lines that bring people back for more. I’m disappointed that so many people dropped off from watching Melrose… Read more »
melrose place was an amazing show! me & my roomates would always get together to watch this show! It kind of reflects what our lives is like.. money, school, relationships.
I think they should give it another try! ,
** I really hate that CW cancelled Melrose place, the remake was not advertised enough to let people know that some old characters would play the remake – We all LOVE Amanda, Micheal, Sydney, Jake, Jo, Jane and Please bring Kyle & Peter BACK and TRY AGAIN………….season 2 would do much better w/the plot gettn’ better and Advertise it.
CW, please bring Melrose place back – Even if you play re-runs of the original series, your ratings would go up – I record/watch ANYTHING Melrose Place, trust that!!! thx.
Once again the CW took off another good show without any explanation, leaving more actors and actresses jobless and loyal viewers with more unanswered questions. The CW SUCKS!!!! All of their shows revolve around Caucasians that look the same with the same type of dialog and story lines…..absolutely no diversity. Where are the shows that represent Latin America, African American, Asian American or Native American. The CW only represents a one-sided America who is blond haired and blue eyed. We need diversified programming, let our leading roles consist of people other than Caucasians. If you think about it the following… Read more »
Oh My GOd!!! I can not belive it is canceled!!! I want to know what happens next, I was so connected with the characters too!!
I’ve never seen the original one, but this remake is absoulutely AWESOME!!
Please please, reconsider it and BRING US SEASON TWO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like the new Melrose Place, as I liked the original one. I was waiting for the new episodes, and very unhappy to find out that it was cancelled. As somebody else said, perhaps the rating was bad because people didn’t know about it.
I stopped watching the show after they killed sidney that was my only attraction to the show
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What did the last episode of the Melrose Place remake attract?
@Pikachu: A 0.5 rating in the demo and 1.09 million viewers.
I love the new Melrose Place – I like the characters more than the old one, of which i was an avid fan. Please bring out a second series, I wanna know what happens to the characters I’ve become connected with!!
I really enjoyed Melrose Place, the actors were great and the plot line too.
I think that CW should give a try to this tv show, in fact as it is its first season not many people know it and by broadcasting the second season the ratings will rise.
and even if the raitings are low you can’t cancel everything, because you can’t leave viewers like this!
A yo bruno,man sum body don told u rite brah.I 100% stand behind u on both of your comments.melrose place was da best show on da cw…..I didn’t catch da original one but I caught all of da remake one and all I can say is “classic”.also da only reason da rating didn’t go up on da show is bcuz ppl rather watch sum fiction **** lik 90210 and one tree hill.dey didn’t wanna c mp cuz it actually non-fiction and actually showing **** dat can really happen.so dats wat it was ppl just couldn’t handle da realness dat melrose… Read more »