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 am so sad ,i downloaded melrose place and cant wait the 2 nd seasone we watch even in croatia,too bad it was really good show,ill hope it will come back.
This so dissappointing!! I dislike the decision of cancellation. My sis and i were big time fans of melrose place then and now. I hope that they reconsider!!!! I really wanted to see what heather had in mind in getting back at ella. So so sad.
My husband and iloved the new season of melrose place. we couldn’t wait for season 2 to start. I am super disapointed its canceled. As well as suprised. They should for sure put it back on the air there were so many ?’S I couldn’t wait to have answered
Well my husband and I watched, have the box DVD sets of the original series, as well we both watched the new season one and loved it too. Too many good shows have been cancelled due to so called ratings, like really WTF do you idots think about people out of the country like buddy above in France or us here in Canada ? Seriously, you really need to get the **** together and stop cancelling good show and keeping crap on like big ban theory, or other ones that are just plain stupid and make no sense what so… Read more »
This was the best show cw had. I will not watch any of their other shows:(
WOW!!! What a Surprise, the CW cancled yet another good show!!!
(Sarcasm all over this comment) I will never understand the Idiots behind the CW, it’s a cursed Network, everything gets cancled on the CW!!! Thank Dawn Ostroff
we love it even in France ! great actors and it’s just so great !
I loved Melrose Place
come on this is a great great great show 😡
i love melrose place !
man i was waiting patiently for it to come back and to find out it is not. bummer
im so sadddddddd. :[
I loved the original, and I was SO excited for the new version…I admit it was hard to get into at first but by the 4th episode I was hooked…I think you had to be a die hard fan of the original like myself to appreciate it…I do think that having some of the original cast in the very begining would have made it better…the fact that Sydney died right off the bat was like Whoa! I’d continue to watch if they put it back on …this was my favorite show in the 90’s
I can’t believe it! Who cares about low ratings! Tons of people loved it count those numbers. Arghh makes me mad. Bring it back! Pull some strings man! Anyone listening?
Really? Really! The new Melrose Place was awesome! So sad to see that it has been cancelled… it was the best new show on tv.
I really loved Melrose Place. Please put it back on the air…