Thomas Calabro is moving into CW’s Melrose Place too! Thoams Calabro (Dr. Michael Mancini) is joining the new Melrose Place redo says reports.
Just yesterday LALATE broke to you that Melrose’s landlord, Sydney Andrews (Laura Leighton), is back. The cast is shaping up very well, very fast, for CW. Calabro will play the father of David Patterson (Shaun Sipos).
Up next - Heather Locklear?!
Keep your fingers crossed.
Laura Leighton is moving into Melrose Place for the CW! Laura Leighton (Sydney Andrews) joins the Melrose Place CW new redo says reports .
Her character originally died, run over by a car. But by the wonders of television, Syndey will be alive and kicking once again on CW’s upcoming series.
Leighton joins Ashlee Simpson already signed on but no Heather Locklear. Reports have claimed Locklear has placed salaray demands at $100,000 per episode.
Marcia Cross will return to Melrose Place CW claims reports! Marcia Cross will join the Melrose Place CW remake says reports, but not as a series regular.
Online chatter fueled by the Enquirer tonight claims that Cross will return (initially) for a three episode arch. That would mirror the CW’s handling of 90210’s remake in which past characters returned to bridge the continuity concerns over the remake.
LALATE has been reporting the script question of doing a MP remake - would it derive from the old MP or spinoff from the new 90210? Since the original MP spun off from the original 90210, a new MP remake would bare no continuity with sister show CW’s 90210 if it simple derives from the original MP series characters. You would basically the new 90210 and MP haven’t not connection unless cross over episodes are deployed on CW.
Marcia originally played Dr. Kimberly Shaw in five seasons. But Cross reportedly now will join for just three episodes claims chatter.
No confirmation from the CW.
Ashlee Simpson is joining the cast of Melrose Place! Ashlee Simpson makes CW’s Melrose Place 2009 her new address.
Yes, really.
Simpson was on 7th Heaven seven years ago. The character Simpson is set to play resembles the Amy Locane character in the original Melrose Place, a southern girl who moves to Los Angeles with a secret.
Simpson and hubby will also appear on CSI NY on March 18 in a one episode role.
Could Mischa Barton be heading to Melrose Place? Mischa Barton is up for the new Melrose Place says online chatter.
While no confirmation from Barton or the CW, LALATE has called the Melrose Place remake one of the hardest pilot scripts any tv writer could ever want.
Why?
The original Melrose was a spinoff of the original 90210. Now that 90210 has been remade, will Melrose 2.0 be a spinoff from 90210 2.0 or the original 90210? It has to spinoff from the new 90210. But with original cast members set to return whose storylines bare no connection with the new 90210, how will that be done?
Lisa Rinna wants to move into Melrose Place! Lisa Rinna wants in on the CW 2009 Melrose Place.
Lisa exclaims she wants her Taylor McBride character back!
Rinna said in a recent interview, “Tell them I’m available, ready to go. I’m very professional and hardworking!”
“I’m way down on the totem pole. You know, this one doesn’t want to do it, that one doesn’t want to do it, so I’m just hoping that they get down far enough to me, where they’re finally like, ‘Oh, just call Lisa…Just hire her, for God’s sake! Stop her begging!’ “
LALATE luvs Lisa but doesn’t understand how CW can do Melrose Place 2009. See, remember the original Melrose Place was a spinoff of the original 90210. Now, the NEW 90210 is a spinoff of the original 90210. Sow what is the new MP going to derive from .. the old 90210 or new 90210?
And yes, a certain old MP character is now on the new 90210. What a confusing mess. Of course, the new 90210 is no winner on writing achievements anyway.
A Melrose Place spinoff is coming to CW! CW’s Melrose Place spinoff, yet untitled, will follow its 90210 CW spinoff, with a catch. CW and CBS Paramount want Melrose Place, following the mild success of 90210 this season on CW, to return.
No pilot is yet set. Hopefully, it won’t be the mess behind the pilot of CW.
Sadly, like 90210, the creator of the original series of Melrose Darren Star is reportedly not slated to be involved with CBS Paramount owning the rights. This is why you keep your rights, people!
Of course one person you shouldn’t expect to be returning to a Melrose Place spinoff, without some bizarre story explanation, is Rob Estes, who is now playing an entirely different character that his original Melrose character now on 90210.
And if you are keeping track, this Melrose CW could be a horrid task for any writer. MP is suppose to be a spinoff of 90210. So to do a redo of CW, you need to spinoff from the current 90210, but yet also be derive from the original MP.
Could then even do MP without Heather Locklear?
REUNION! The cast of Melrose Place will reunite for the Emmy Awards this September, says reports. Also, rumored, the original cast of Beverly Hills 90210 and Dynasty.
Heather Locklear, Jack Wagner, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Doug Savant, Josie Bissett, Andrew Shue, Grant Show could join the Emmys for its 60th anniversary broadcast that will look back on previous award years.
No confirmation yet from Emmy people. Are you excited?
