Well, if Desperate Housewives ever goes in the shitter, at least Doug Savant knows what his backup plan is. After the success of 90210 at the CW, the network is planning on continuing their trend of making their primetime schedule look like an episode of I Love The 90's, by planning a reboot of Melrose Place.
While 90210 hasn't been the ratings juggernaut that the CW is hoping it would be, it has still become a clear success on Tuesday nights. No doubt the CW is probably hoping to bring back a few members of the old cast (I'm a big proponent of putting Heather Locklear in just about anything). No further news on the development, but former series creator Darren Star may be on board.
The original Melrose was a semi-spinoff of the original Beverly Hills 90210 back in 1992. The show focused on twenty-somethings living in the same apartment complex in Los Angeles. The show often embraced far more soap-opera-esque storylines and had no fear of camp. Throughout the show's seven year history, characters faced multiple personalities, murders, bombings and more double-crosses than one could count. If the CW could embrace some of the camp from the original, then perhaps this could make a welcome addition to the CW's schedule.
However, if the CW starts a reboot of The X-Files, they're to be taken to task for their FOX circa 1993 identity crisis.
To check out of Melrose's more significantly campy moments, when resident uber-loon Kimberly (Desperate's Marcia Cross), sets of a bomb, play the clip below:
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