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’m from SouthAfrica and i think it was awsome show me and my family is so disappointed,you really must do something to bring this back!!!
Are you kidding me! Ive been waiting for the show to come back and now I find out its not! Thats just not right! I loved it! Maybe there should have been more promotion to get better ratings
IM SO IRRITATED THAT MELROSE PLACE ISN’T COMING BACK!!!! I LOVED THIS. SHOW! BOOOO ON THE CW!!
no kidding thought it was a great f-ing series
I’ve been waiting all year for it to return just to find out its been canceled! I’ve been watching every episode….perhaps they just didn’t market it properly to new viewers,
I love Melrose Place,how could this happen??There has to be a season 2 or I’ll be so sad!!I’m mean it’s like so lame to cancel a show because of bad rating!!Put Melrose Place back on!!!!
I’m from Belgium and I love the new version of Melrose Place,and this is one of the best seasons ever!!And the ending of season 1 was really good and I want to see what happens in season 2!!So make the season 2!!!Please!!
I’m from Thailand, I love watching Melrose place! So disappointed Season 2 will be cancelled. Oh well, there are still good series like ‘The vampire diaries’ and ‘Gossip girl’ <3
Call, write letter whatever it takes to let our voices be heard!!! we need to let them know we care and they have to bring the show back!!!!!
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Gosh!!! i hate stupit money hungry executive!!!! i love the show and I couldn’t wait to see what happened after Heather Locklear got arrested!! it’s not fear to run that kind of episode if you’re not planning to continue the show, they just let us hanging, excited for the next season that they knew IT WOULDN”T HAPPEN!!!…… BRING IT BACK!!! BRING IT BACK!!!! BRING IT BACK!!!!! BRING IT BACK!!!! BRING IT BACK!!!!
gosh , im from estonia , and i loved melrose place. what a disappointment that there will be no season 2 :(.
I think it would have done better if they made it its own show. not give it the Melrose name. I LOVED the show. I watched every episode
Its not fair that you started somthing and then just took it away all because there wasent enough rateings. But what about the people who did watched and enjoyed the show like me!!!! I was sooo looking forward to season 2. Thanks for taking it away!
I’m from england and my mum and I love watching it. We are disapointed that it will not be coming back for another season. I think that they should give the show a chance and see if they can get the amount of viewers that they need to watch it.
OMG!! I’m from France and I’m just so disapointed to see the show was canceled! That is one of my favourite show, all my friends watched it and we are so sad that finsished! Do something, we need a 2nd season! Let a chance to the show!!!!!!!