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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Why wat the hell…i love this show. i seen and recored every epesode. GRRR
I LOVED THAT SHOW I MAD THAT I CANT SEE WHO KILLED HER AND IF MY GIRL WAS GOING TO GET WITH PETER AND WHAT PETE R WAS GOING TO HAVE TO DO I WANTED TO SEE IF SHEV WAS GOING TO STOP BEING A HO SO MAD BECAUSE IT WAS A GOOD SHOW REALLY REALLY GOOD
this show was sooooo GOOD!!! dont reall know why the ratings would be so low in the 1st place. I really hope the show comes back. I LOVE this show. PLEASE BRING IT BACK!
OMFG!! the show was amazing!!!! how stupid can anyone be to cancel it?? I´ve always said that MP is much much better than 90210… the “old” and the “new” series!!!! BRING IT BACK PLEASE!!!
PLEEEEEEAAAASSSSEEEE BRING IT BACK IT WAS AN AWESOME SHOW. JUST LIKE THE OLD ONE….LOVE LOVE LOVE 🙁
I loved Melrose Place in the 90’s and I love it now!!! I wish that it didn’t get canceled. It was a great show. Bring it back please.
i thought the cb bringing back 91210 was good but was even better with melrose place. I loved the show i though the drama was great and i looked foward too seeing season 2. Its just to bad.
En effet CW a fait une erreur, il avait bien commencé mais arreter la serie c est une enorme erreur. les gens n ont tous simplement pas pris le temps de la regarder! la saison une est meilleur que celle de beverly hills nouvelle génération.
I thought it was entertaining and there was some good eye candy that I could not get enough of. Another one bites the dust. Hasta la vista baby!
I love this show as well, It’s one of the best tv show that is on.and you just have to bring it back.it was getting so good and all of a sudden just take it off that is so wrong.please bring it back..
I love this show. You need to bring it back. You can’t leave us in suspense and end it, thats just wrong.
Me encantoo la serie, ojalas vuelvan a pensarlo! quiero la segunda temporada de merose place!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Really unhappy that Melrose Place will not be coming back, the men were hotties!!!!! I think the reason it did not captivate many viewers was due to the channel it showed on. If I remember rightly it showed on FIVE USA only which lets face it does probably not have the audience for half of its shows!!!
Lets start a petition, bring back Melrose Place..this time on channel 4!!!!!
How can Melrose Place have bad ratings?! The show is amazing! I fell in love with the show & characters. I actually can relate to a few characters. But CW made the biggest mistakes. You’ve just ruined many lives. Story line was great but that’s shot down to the ground cause there’s no more MELROSE PLACE! CW sucks big time.
I SOOOO AGREE WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!
i love this show!! it can’t be cancelled. there are too many people who love it!! cancelling Melrose Place was the biggest mistake of CW! we want season 2 and 3 and.. a lot of seasons. i love everything of this show. it’s awesome. Romanian people really likes this. Please guys.. do something 🙁
it was a fantastic show,i was really captivated by the show.