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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MEEEEELLLLLLRRRRRROOOOOOSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! BRRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙁 🙁 🙁 :(…..im boycotting the CW
I dont ever do this….BUT I AM in complete shock that they canceled Melrose Place!!! That show was the ONLY reason why I ever began watching TV again!! I live for that show!!! My heart is broken and shattered into a million pieces! Cancel Life unexpected or even even one of the million vampire shows but not melrose!!! SMH…What can we do to get it back…I need my Jonah and Riley sighs…. WB , CW whatever the network is named BRING IT BACK
It started slow, but within a few weeks, it was really GOOD! Loved the original series, just didn’t like how you made Amanda and Jo really bitchie ..
I Agree, BIG mistake, cancelling, very upset to see it go. Loved it!
me n best friend looooved the new melrose….i think it would have kept its viewers if they stayed more consistant when it was on. cw kept skipping weeks at a time then advertise the next melrose and it would come on as rerun then it went off for like 2 months with no idea if it was cancelled or if that was the season finale…if they did an advertisement blast to catch up on season one and play it in a two week span with a later night replay they would recapture most of their past viewers and capture some… Read more »
I think the new melrose place was just as explosive as the original version. I absolutely loved the new melrose place and is very dissapointed that it has ended.
It was the BEST SHOW YET. And I think adding in the old cast was a great idea. I was sure hoping they brought in Billy and Allison too. Guess I will never get that chance again. I am so sad it was cancelled
This show was great..I LOVED IT!!!!.The CW SUCKS for pulling the plug and they wonder why they SUCK for being a crappy network!…You had one decent show and got rid of it!…I was so looking forward to Season 2…but now we’re screwed! Some other network (Fox?), pick up this show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I totally agree, the CW sucks and I hope so bad another network picks the show up!
Some of the girls an I had girls nights just watching the show an we absolutely loved it . Im sad to find out its now cancelled the only thing i can say bad was ashlee simpson s bad acting an my girls would agree .. but i loved everything else about the show an the actors/actress’s that played the other parts . The girls were beautiful an the guys shut id just watch the show to see the men 🙂 …
I agree. I loved the original and the remake. I’m very sad it was canceled. I had been looking forward to it coming on again and now to see this and know that it won’t be on makes me sad. Who cares if the ratings weren’t in the millions or billions, there were at least .84million people watching the final episode which means .84million people are probably very pissed off now that it won’t be coming back on. So congratulations CW for being morons. This was the ONLY CW show I have watched in years, and now I won’t be… Read more »
I AM SO SAD TO SEE THIS SHOW GO. I WAS JUST STARTING TO GET INTO IT AND IT WAS JUST STARTING TO GET GOOD & STEAMY!! THEY DID NOT EVEN GIVE IT A CHANCE. SO PISSED ABOUT THIS, REALLY!! PLEASE RECONSIDER & BRING THIS SHOW BACK!!!!!
WTF!!!! MELROSE PLACE WAS LITERALLY THE ONLY SHOW WORTH WATCHING ON THIS DAMMED NETWORK SURE, I WON’T SAY THE RATINGS WERE LOW, BUT IT WAS ONE OF THE ONLY SHOWS NOT MEANT FOR TEENAGE GIRLS. I THINK WITH A LITTLE MAKEOVER THE SHOW COULD HAVE BEEN A BIG HIT SECOND SEASON. BUT WHATEVER, CLEARLY DAWN OSTROFF, PRESIDENT OF THE CW, NEEDS TO GET FIRED BECAUSE ITS OBVIOUS THAT SHE HAVE NO TASTE IN GOOD TELEVISION BECAUSE SHE WAS THE ONE WHO PULLED THE PLUG. ONE MORE THING THE OLD MELROSE PLACE IS GREAT. JUST GETTING STARTED IN SEASON TWO; NEW… Read more »
I am very dissapointed to see this show go off the air. I was a faithful watcher of the original and this version as well. I wish another network would consider picking this show up. Maybe if they added a few more guest stars to keep viewers intrigued that would be a nice touch. I would have loved to see Maricia Cross A.K.A Kimberly come back in a dream sequence like Sydney did. If Susan Lucci could have done a small stint as a rival for Heather Locklear that would have been a nice twist as well.
the cancellation is a big mistake !!!! some shows need a little more time. I guess people are not as loyal as Aaron Spelling.
I believe the show was good i liked this one as well i believe the day it came one was a pretty dragful day if they would hav had it prehaps come on lets say mondays when gossip girl came on or thrusdays with vampire diaries it may have got better ratings.
I loved the first Melrose, as I did this one. I am very sad to see them take this show off. I thought the actors did a wonderful job.I was so looking to see what went down next. Now we will never know. )-: So very sad about this.