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The Director Of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH Brings Us...MELROSE PLACE!?
Merrick here...
With 90210 now resurrected, The Powers That Be are now turning their attention to revamping MELROSE PLACE.
Seems Davis Guggenheim will be directing the recently greenlit pilot for the proposed/probable series.
Guggenheim, who is under a deal at CBS Par, is known for directing edgier dramas such as "Deadwood," "24" and the pilot for "The Unit," but early in his career, he helmed lighter fare including Fox's "Party of Five."
...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
Guggenheim also directed Al Gore's AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH back in 2006.
Here's a mashup of the original 1992-1999 series' title sequences, lest we forget....
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Although the rest of AICN is getting relatively cooler. Global Warming?
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Bring on the Party of 5 remake but make them cylons.
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Some idiot turned the frozen donkey wheel and now we're all paying the price!
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when we get the remakes of desperate housewives and one tree hill.
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Davis Guggenheim is married to Elisabeth Shue, who is the brother of Andrew Shue, who was one of the cast on the original. May or may not have something to do with why this guy is involved but it's good trivia.
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just update some of the haircuts and make joey lose 20 pounds- i want to see those arm bones people! and hurry up because frankly, i don't want to wait
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uhh.. Party of Five was one of the best dramas ever produced for TV. It's the best in my book. I don't know where they could say it "lighter fare" There were some episode that made you want to kill yourself afterward i.e. "intervention".
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downtown los angeles is enveloped by a man eating iceberg, causing privileged children to snort coke and fuck.
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Feb 24, 2009 2:22:42 PM CST
Melrose Place, now with more bullshit global warming mongering
by somashine
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Is what we need next.
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That show was non-stop misery.
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But his eps of DEADWOOD are fucking masterpieces!
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Carbon dioxide does not cause global warming. Global warming causes carbon dioxide. We are currently in the end of a ten thousand year cycle of warmer weather. In 100 years St.Paul Minnesota may well be under 100 feet of ice.
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So I don't see any problem with it.
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heh. if they keep that mentality, they might just re-make Party of five into an as a spring-break show. You know, until episode 8 when one of the guy gets some horrible STD and becomes retarded, and the chick dies while trying to perform an abortion with a hanger wire (it was the guy's baby, she raped him while she was changing his diaper).
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He's her brother. You sicko.
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Davis, come back to "24" homey!
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Guy almost made Point Pleasant watchable.
I hope he doesn't appear on this show, he deserves so much more. -
After all, he's apparently used to bad, hysterical, overdramatic fiction.
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Remake or not, they'd best hire Thomas Calabro as Michael Mancini. He was the single greatest sleazy smarmy bastard in TV history. Melrose will not be watchable without him.
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Feb 24, 2009 9:27:06 PM CST
An Inconvenient Place! (like the back of a Volkswagon)
by flim springfield
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This show was such a guilty pleasure back in the day. Until Kimberly blew up the apartment and Darren Star left - then the show turned into chaotic, recycled bullshit. I probably won't watch it unless I heard amazing things which is highly unlikely.
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Feb 25, 2009 12:02:05 AM CST
If you've seen Guggenheim's Gossip (shudder) then this isn't a s
by paul t. ryan
Terrible, terrible film.
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Feb 25, 2009 12:55:01 AM CST
where are the Models Inc. & Central Park West remakes!?!?!
by boomers_lips
Models Inc. was the Melrose Place spinoff starring Carrie-Anne Moss and the 'Lilah' lawyer chick from ANGEL as fashion models. Central Park West starred Mariel Hemingway & Raquel Welch! that's all.
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and it was at a greater frequency and HEFT than normal, AM I CONTRIBUTING TO GLOBAL WARMING?!!?!??!!??!?!?!!??!
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a bunch of pretty people running around buying useless carbon credits because they feel guilty about their expensive cars, oversized condos and their trips to Europe.
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...than "An Inconvenient Truth". He may struggle because of that. As long as the icebergs in L.A. don't hold up filming.
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Is the set of Melrose Place. Are they going to steal it back?
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So why not use old 90210 actors for the new Melrose Place? Ian Zeiring can be the new Michael. Brian Austin Green can be the new Jake. Jason Priestly and Luke Perry can play a gay couple. Hilary Swank can take on the Amy Locane role and get canned after a handful of episodes (just like when she was on 90210). Tiffany Amber Thiessen, Kathleen Robertson, Lindsay Price, & Vanessa Marcil can spend every episode sitting around the pool in bikinis.
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James Eckhouse and list him as a "Special Guest Star" even though he appears prominently in every single episode for the series' remaining 200 episodes.I had to look that up - seems Melrose Place ran from 1992 - 1999. In that time they did 227 episodes. That averages out to 32 per season. Or, another way to look at it: Over the course of an entire year 61.5% of the time there was a new episode that week. If you break it down to just the TV season, August through May, that means that in those 10 months, there was a new episode 80% of the time. Or, out of 40 weeks of a very liberal "Fall/Winter Schedule", there were only 8 weeks when a new episode did not air.
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It would be closer to 42 or 43 weeks. So it would be more like 75% of the time during the Fall/Winter Season there would be a new episode and more like only 10 or 11 weeks during that time there wouldn't be a new episode. Still, those numbers are like nothing we see these days.
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