Comments on: In Ads for the New Melrose Place, the CW Diddles While Rome Burns

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The 100th Episode Clip Show, TBTS Style « The Brown Tweed Society — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:40:19 +0000

[...] Melrose Place ads sent the wrong message at the wrong time. [...]

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Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:06:21 +0000

[...] off the floor. Believe me, I wish I could tell you that this was all a plot by Ashlee Simpson to hype the new Melrose Place, but alas there is no such [...]

By: P McD

P McD — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:02:02 +0000

Yes, I took the time to look the those shows up on the intertubes.

By: P McD

P McD — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:46:34 +0000

While I am by no means proficient (see high school transcript), I’m fairly certain “Tues” is nowhere to be found in the French language.

Living in Chicago, I get my morning and evening “news” from WGN, which is also the CW, in a weird Jekyll/Hyde type of arrangement. Anywho, as such, I’m subject to what I would consider a higher level barrage of CW programming commercials while I’m finding out who got shot on a given day. My working theory is that the CW goes out and gets 20-something model wannabes, starts taping, and then just slaps different names on each time slot. I don’t know at what point it actually happened, but when watching the commercials I honestly cannot find any point of differentiation between the following CW offerings:

One Tree Hill
Gossip Girl
90210
The Beautiful Life: TBL (So, the name of this show is The Beautiful Life: The Beautiful Life. Brilliant.)
Melrose Place (Yes, they spun-off a remake, creating a remake of the same spin-off as the original. The mind reels.)

To paraphrase Patton Oswalt, “The CW, all about coulda, not about shoulda.”

By: Zach W.

Zach W. — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:07:11 +0000

I rarely if ever watched the original, and will only watch the new one if my wife decides she’s going to, but even I know the setting of the ad/show is the apartment complex where the cast lives (uh, Melrose Place). Not “an opulent SoCal mansion.”