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 did they do diz to us..?!!!!!!! it waz an amazing show….not to mention how much i really loved it..now u guyz ruined my total TV Life…!!!!
I was so good why they cancel it if america does not like it then show it in canada we loved it here .bring back melrose place!
Bring back Melrose Place.
Please brink it back ,thats a great TV show …whyb u spot it …we want` it back ..please
there are great characters and the ideea of the show was nice….please :(:(
I thought the show was really good. Too bad it was cancelled. Okay shows like top model need to end. Samething just different ppl. Ugh!
why did they cancelled it, my mom and I loved this serie we were looking forward to the next season 🙁 this is soooo bad
I thought it was great!! I never saw the original Melrose Place, so maybe that’s why. But I was definitly looking forward to a second season!!
I really enjoyed the show and was very confused when it’s “sister” show, 90210 came back for season 2 and keeps going till today. I really enjoyed Melrose Place 1 and the 2nd one really hooke me in… I am very disappointed that it was cancelled.
CW taking melrose place off air i think was a Big mistake..I luvveddddddddddd the show! Please bring it back!!!
Melrose place is amazing why would you just cancell it my godddd. 🙁
I LOVEDDDD that show I don’t understand how it could have bad ratings?!
Everyone that I showed it too instantly became hooked, the actors were all amazing and it had an amazing story line.
I don’t know why it failed – I really liked it. It’s too bad it was cancelled.
I am so mad about this. America NEVER gives shows a chance to make it and all the best shows are cancelled. I definitely enjoyed it and thought it had a lot of scope but like a lot of other great shows was not given a chance. We always get 1 season of shows in the UK and are left with a lot of unanswered questions from soap plots which were just left up in the air… I am now trying to find out if the remake of V has suffered the same fate. It’s, sadly, all about the money… Read more »
Who even knew it was on….I just happened to find it and unfortuntely was hooked! Was really looking forward to the next season!!! WTH!!! 🙁
the show was great!