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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yawn – they should have just made a movie where the original left off with original characters!
please please can u please bring back melrose place… season 2, its not right how you get the fans hook n on the best part you remove it… i reli want to know wat happens to ella n David.. n does drew die or not, is he goin to be with riley.. come make a season 2…
sunt**
scuze
va rog,, bagati si sezonul 2.
imi place foarte mult Melrose Place si ar fi pacat ca un serial atat de bun cu niste actori minunati sa nu continue si sezonul 2.
sunt sigura ca multi sund de acord cu mine.
aici in romania este iubit serialul.
multumesc!
PLEASE PLEASE
WHO DO WE CONTACT TO GET OUR SEASON 2
I will do whatever it takes – we never missed 1 episode
the first Melrose place also took a while to get good ratings
ITS brilliant –
My friends and I all watch it here in south africa
Come one please – somebody do something
please please bring back melrose place!! its amazing! so much better then 90210!!
I am really in love with this show, even though i come from China, i think this show is amazing, i just can’t believe that the show has so low rating, it’s really a goods show. Would CW reconsider this cancellation and bring back the actress and actor and make the 2nd season…….really love this show
PLEASE Bring back melrose back! was so sad tho hear it was off the air, me n my friends watched religiously evey episode! it was so good!!!
IM MAD THAT IT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. I WAS JUS LOOKIN FOR THE START OF NEXT SEASON WHEN I FOUND OUT THIS BAD NEWS. I HOPE IT COME C=BACK
I was afraid of this!! I really loved Melrose Place and I’ve been waiting for it to return. At least if CW was planning on cancelling it, I wish they wouldn’t have left so many plots up in the air! That is so irritating!
I adored Melrose place and i am really shocked! My mind does not assimilate how an show like this gets such low rating!
You gotta bring Melrose Place back. There must be a Season 2!!!
I love 90210 a lot and I totally fell in love with the new Melrose Place and enjoyed it more than 90210 mainly cause the teenage angst kinda gets on my nerves so I loved MP a lot more and plus it had better story lines and I loved the characters. And when the cancelled it cause of bad ratings was hella lame.I mean the Hellcat ratings are about the same as MP and Life Unexpected got renewed and that’s getting cancelled real soon.
I was excited to see the 90210 Melrose Place crossover that they were planning on doing
I have been waiting for the show to come back on, so I finally decided to do a search on it, hoping I would not find this answer. I am so mad to find out it’s been cancelled. I was hestitant to watcht he show in the first place cause I figured that like so many other shows it would get cancelled. I hate falling in love with shows and then having them cancelled. Networks never leave enough time for a show to grow and gain a following! As the first season of Melrose Place went on it got better… Read more »
Please bring back melrose place…….. Have been waiting for season 2…. You have to bring it back…