Since December 8th, 2009, fans of Melrose Place have been wondering what the hell happened to their favorite characters after a colossal cliffhanger that involved a catfight, a death, an overdose, and a hookup that left fans gagging for more. What will Riley think when she finds out about Ella and Jonah’s night of passion? Will Lauren finally come clean to David about her second job moonlighting as a call girl? And will David ask what we have wondered since they hooked up: why didn’t Lauren take his offer to pay off her loans? Will Violet and Auggie leave peacefully or in a blaze of glory? Will David know that his half brother is actually his son? Will Amanda wreck even more hell this time around than in the 90s? And most importantly…

Will the show survive to see this fall? I am praying for a yes answer for this question…

Melrose Place finally returns to our TV screens tonight and The CW brass, as well as the writers, promise a more “light” atmosphere than the “dark” and noir setting that was the back drop to the ‘Who Killed Sydney (Laura Leighton)?’ plot line that dominated the first twelve episodes and was solved in the Winter finale episode, “San Vicente”. The return also marks the end of Ashlee Simpson-Wentz’s role as Violet and Colin Egglesfield as Auggie and the entrance of a new resident named Drew Pragin (Nick Zano), a doctor who moves into the complex and clashes with Lauren. And last, but most definitely not least, we have more screen time for Amanda Woodward (special guest star Heather Locklear), who moves to the forefront with her new beau Ben Brinkley (Billy Campbell).

Are you not excited? I sure as hell am!

So for those of you who are new to the sultry complex that is 4616 Melrose Avenue, or if you just need a refresher for the new episodes premiering tonight @ 9/8c on The CW, then this primer is just for you. So sit back, have a drink and join us in the craziness that is Melrose Place and make sure that you have a shrink, some home insurance, and a lawyer on speed dial. Because with the residents of this apartment complex, you just don’t know when those essentials will come in handy.

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Hooray *insert happy dance here* lol

If you’re a fan of either version of Melrose Place, don’t forget to tune in tonight at 9 when the updated series returns to the CW with all-new episodes. But you also cannot miss the March 30 episode called “Santa Fe,” which features a one-night-only reunion of castmembers Daphne Zuniga (as Jo Reynolds), Heather Locklear (as Amanda Woodward), Thomas Calabro (as Dr. Michael Mancini) and Josie Bissett (as Jane Andrews), as you can see for yourself above in the exclusive promo still we snagged for you guys!

As Melrose Place executive producer Darren Swimmer tells us, “We’ve had visits by original castmembers throughout the year, and we all thought, ‘Let’s get them together in one show.’ One of the highlights of the season for me was walking on the set to see all four original castmembers together on the courtyard staircase. There was a true sense of reunion in the room, and I think you can see in their performances how tickled they are to be acting together again.”

So why are Jo, Amanda, Michael and Jane reconnecting on the show? Here’s the exclusive storyline scoop from insiders like Calabro himself:

The nefarious Dr. Michael Mancini says, “We have a bit of a reunion episode coming up. There are a couple of old characters in a scene in the show. It involves at least two girls I slept with and one I didn’t…Actually there’s a thread between me and one of those characters that goes through the entire show. It’s not just a scene.”

We’re told that the big reunion comes about after Jonah throws a party to celebrate the pickup of his screenplay, even though none of the four original castmembers were actually invited to the bash at the good ol’ Melrose Place building in West Hollywood. The originals all arrive at the party of their own accord and with their own hidden agendas.

As a CW source spills: “Michael Mancini is there threatening to out Lauren (Stephanie Jacobsen), Jane is there to find out why Amanda hasn’t fired Ella (Katie Cassidy) yet and Jo has found out Amanda is up to no good again and confronts her. But they do have fun reuniting and Michael realizes he may have made a mistake letting Jane go.” Awww…

There’s also some drama coming up between Michael and Amanda, and Calabro tells us that he especially loves getting a second chance to work with Locklear, because, “Every scene is never just about what the scene is about—there’s always something else going on with these two. They are kindred spirits, and in some ways you get the sense that they are going to end up together at some point. I always get that sense. Maybe it’s just actor lust.”

And hey, a little actor lust never killed anybody…

Are you guys as excited as we are for the return of new Melrose Place episodes tonight at 9 on the CW?

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Our favorite West Hollywood tenants are behind on the rent! It’s been several months with no new episodes while they went and did some remodeling or something. Since the show returns on Tuesday, Michael Rady — who plays “Melrose Place’s” resident film geek/Don Juan — acts all suave and secretive as he attempts to get out of his late fees by answering some burning questions about what’s in store for the rest of the season.

We’ve been told “Melrose” was going to go through a bit of retooling. Can you tell us why Melrose 2.5 is worth checking out?

We amp up the fun factor on it. The murder mystery gets wrapped up so you’re not swept back into these flashbacks. They replace that with fun L.A. stuff. And they also add a lot more sex. We did a shoot at the [Speedzone in City of Industry] and it was so much fun. At seven in the morning I’m doing drag races in zero to four seconds. People are going to watch and be like ‘wow L.A. is a really cool place to live.

Wow. What brought your character there?

[Jonah] had this opportunity to work on his film and he’s working on casting and one of the crazy eccentric Hollywood A-listers that he’s courting to be the lead in it loves arcades and my character meets him out there for a business meeting.

It sounds a little bit like “Entourage.”
Now that the murder mystery is wrapped up, it’s really moving into that space of just fun and kind of exciting and interesting situations and not kind of dark, whodunit sorts of things. They wanted to come out the gates with a big amount of intrigue, but they want to spring board off that into what I think what “Entourage” does with this larger-than-life, is-this-really-how-people-live? vibe.

Well, there was a bit of a “Melrose Place” storyline on “Entourage” last season. Will there be an actual “Entourage” crossover on “Melrose”?

(Laughs.) Not as far as I know, but I’d love that.

How do you feel about the comparisons of your character to Andrew Shue’s Billy Campbell from the first “Melrose” or to other romantic geeks like Seth Cohen from “The O.C.” or Zachary Levi on “Chuck”?

That’s fine if that helps people making that comparison. I don’t watch Andrew Shue or draw comparisons from that. I don’t have that sort of hindsight perspective of what Jonah was in that show. He’s changing and developing in the next half of the show. He goes places you don’t quite expect. He earns a certain status in the first half with the choices he makes and what you expect of him. Which is good, but he’s allowed to make mistakes now. He doesn’t always do what is necessarily considered right. He’s living out here in this crazy world and that’s been fun in these last crazy episodes. I’m so used to saying “we’re rooting for Jonah” in that scene.
In regards to the choices he makes in relationships, it’ll be interesting to see if the audience takes his side. I take his side, but I’m curious to see if the female set will agree. I love that ambiguity. I love that it’s not black and white. At the end of episode 12, you see Jonah finally break off the engagement with Riley after five years. She’s the girl of his dreams and after they get engaged she proceeds to get weird and strange. Something is off in his relationship and he gets to a boiling point and says, forget about the wedding. For me, I fully am rationalized in Jonah doing what he did. Jessica Lucas [who plays Riley] and I go back and forth on set defending our characters.

What about the fact that Jonah slept with two different women in the same day in that episode, Riley in the morning and Ella at night?

He’s pissed and really hurt at Riley wasting five years of his life. If she loves him, then why wouldn’t she want to marry him? Does she not love him enough and want to commit to him? Then I’m (i.e., Jonah) really hurt by that and I wish we had this talk a long time ago.
Speaking of Billy Campbell, there’s the actor who is joining the new cast, (not the character from the old cast) … tell me a bit about what’s going on with the new cast members.

He comes in through Heather Locklear’s character, [Amanda]. He’s her boyfriend on the show, and they use that to spice up things between Jessica Lucas’ character and her relationship to Amanda and her relationship to Ben, Billy Campbell’s character.

Before the hiatus, Ella got her man. Does she get to keep him for long?

There’s frustration and hurt. Oh you’ll see.
What’s going on with Nick Zano’s new character?

He’s our tenant. They bring in and have a great amount of fun with him. There’s a random scene at the end of the episode where you’re going to be like, “Wait, what?” Mostly he’s there for fun but he adds a layer of intrigue.

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The CW’s reboots of 90210 and Melrose Place return from hiatus tonight, and, let me guess: You don’t care. And I don’t blame you. I myself stopped watching 90210 halfway through a first season so tiresome that I was nodding off before the first commercial. And while Melrose Place did delight for several weeks, periods of dullness eventually began to creep in.

But now both shows are better than they’re given credit for, and they have serious potential to be great. Plus, they each boast a cast of characters I’m not ready to say goodbye to. Much to my relief, 90210 has been picked up for a third season, but Melrose Place is teetering on the edge of preemptive cancellation. So here’s my appeal to set your DVRs and get watching.

90210: New and improved!

How has 90210 rebounded from that mess of a first season? Peripheral characters, like Adrianna and Liam, have been moved to the forefront. Flat storylines (who cares about those parents, anyway?) have been dropped. The angst level has been recalibrated—there’s enough to make for good TV, but the show is sufficiently lighthearted to keep viewers entertained.

I wish The CW would quit endlessly teasing the upcoming same-sex relationship between Adrianna and Gia (Rumer Willis), but I’m confident the rest of the season will be about more than just ratings-grabbing liplocks. I’m dying to find out, for example, what’s going on with Jasper, the creepy drug-dealer who’s now got accidental murderess Annie under his thumb.

Melrose: Trashy good fun

I admit that Melrose Place is a harder sell. The first half of the season wasted too much time on a misguided murder mystery, which was wrapped up clumsily in the last episode. But now that we’re done with that nonsense, I’m ready to see the more interesting storylines play out.

Why? Because Melrose Place is trashy good fun. The CW advertises the series as the steamier, skin-heavier alternative to 90210’s bright high school drama. Which is pretty accurate, actually, as this is one attractive cast. Aside from the “dead Sydney in a swimming pool” plot, we’ve gotten some compelling stories: Cutthroat bitch publicist Ella rising to the top, the innocent Riley choosing modeling over teaching, and—of course—Lauren turning tricks to pay for medical school. (Don’t you dare judge her!)

Look, it’s not high art, and Melrose Place still has a lot of growing to do. But given how drastically 90210 improved from one season to the next, I bet Melrose Place will prove its haters wrong—provided it has the chance.

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Added HQ stills of the episodes 14 & 15 in the gallery.

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After playing Dr. Michael Mancini on the original Melrose Place from 1992 to 1999, actor Thomas Calabro is back in familiar shoes a decade later as the more mature and professionally advanced Dr. Mancini in the new Melrose Place on The CW. Interestingly, Thomas Calabro was the only original Melrose Place actor to be with the popular ’90s hit throughout its entire run. Now Calabro finds himself back in the sudsy, primetime dramatic mix in a new generation of TV that’s, as Thomas Calabro told us, allowing Melrose Place to get away with as much push-the-envelope material as the first incarnation of Melrose Place.

Now acting as the father of new Melrose Place character, David Breck, played by Shaun Sipos, and the head doctor at the hospital, Thomas Calabro quickly found Michael Mancini embroiled in a murder mystery Melrose Place plot that saw Mancini break into his son’s apartment only to get arrested, land in jail, and become more entangled in even more unlikely murderous mayhem. In classicMelrose Place fashion, Mancini’s old villainous flame, Amanda, played by Heather Locklear, are in the thick of the drama just like old times on Melrose Place.

Ahead of the March 9 return of Melrose Place at 9pm on The CW, we got some exclusive one-on-one time with actor Thomas Calabro to find out how a potential reunion between Dr. Mancini and Amanda could work, the status of a second season of Melrose Place, the impact of Heather Locklear, and how the dynamic between Mancini and Amanda will affect the rest of the Melrose Place season.

THE DEADBOLT: So how does it feel to be in prison for a crime you didn’t commit?

THOMAS CALABRO: How does it feel? Look, everyone in prison didn’t commit the crime they’re in jail for, so it’s a raw deal for all of us.

THE DEADBOLT: How do you relate to Mancini now, as compared to who he was during the original run of the show back in the ’90s?

CALABRO: Well, first, how he’s changed. He’s much more powerful, both financially and in the medical community, his stature in there. He’s invented a device, which gives him what looks to be unlimited funds by the car he drives. At the hospital, he’s no more seeking to be the Chief of Staff as he was fifteen years ago when everything was about moving forward in his medical career, his surgical career. Now he’s at the top of the heap and he’s got nothing much to lose, or nothing to gain, I should say, and everything to lose. So he’s in a way different position than he was before.

Now he’s got a family, or had a family until his wife got convicted for committing murder. So he’s quite a different guy. He’s a little more gothic, a little more sleek. He’s a little more untouchable than he was before and that’s going to change in the second half of the season. We’re going to see a lot more of his vulnerability.

But how do I relate to those guys? Well, I’ve got a family and kids. So I’m very protective of them like Michael was of his family – his family with the little boy – trying to keep outside influences from adversely affecting it. So, I’m very protective. I’m still about his height but he’s not quite as good looking as I am in person. So those are the things that have changed and we still have in common. [laughs] Oh yeah, and his reckless nature. I forgot about that.

THE DEADBOLT: Do you still get recognized walking down the street? Do people yell out, Dr. Mancini?

CALABRO: Yes, but it depends on where you are. In New York they yell out Dr. Mancini and call you names. In Los Angeles, you get more sideways glances.

THE DEADBOLT: How much of the show’s identity is defined by Amanda? How do you think that affects the show?

CALABRO: Well, I think it’s Heather [Locklear] and what her television persona represents. When you hear Heather Locklear is on the show, and you remember her as Amanda Woodward, it’s that character’s genes you’ll remember as she played them. So it’s almost like her and Amanda are one. Certainly, Amanda Woodward and what she did defined all of those places the fist time around as much as Michael did. You know what I mean? The kind of backstabbing, bed jumping behavior was what kind of defined the show. And those two characters did a heck of a lot of it, maybe more than anybody else on the show. So that’s how I feel she contributes. People go, “Oh, well, if Heather is on that show, Amanda is back, and that kind of stuff is what’s going to go on. That interests me. I want to see that.”

THE DEADBOLT: In what ways could a potential reunion between Amanda and Dr. Mancini work?

CALABRO: It could work in many scenarios. We’ve already introduced the idea that these guys had relationships during the last ten years much like Sydney Andrews and Michael Mancini. It was determined they’ve been having an ongoing affair. We also indicated that between Amanda and Michael as well. That goes on into the second half of the season and there’s fireworks waiting to happen between those two characters.

THE DEADBOLT: Well, that’s something for the fans to look forward to. So now that we’ve seen Sydney back, we’ve seen Amanda and Jane. What other characters from the original Melrose Place would you like to work with?

CALABRO: You know, I always say that each and every one of them had their own unique dynamic and talent they brought to the show. So I hate to point out any one of them because they’re all so great to me. I loved working with so many characters that were on our show throughout the seven year run we had the first time around. But if I had to pick one, it would be the Playboy bunny that was on my lap. I’d like to meet her again, I never got her number.

THE DEADBOLT: How do you feel about the upcoming storylines with Dr. Drew and how that will affect Lauren and also David?

CALABRO: Yes, there’s a lot brewing in the pot with those four characters you mentioned. [laughs] There are like four different triangles going on in those four characters that are happening in the second half of the season. Yeah, that’s going to perk up quite a bit and it’s personal and professional and financial. All of those three elements come into play for those characters and it’s going to be a lot of fun.

THE DEADBOLT: Given the other CW renewals, what’s the word on a second season of Melrose Place?

CALABRO: Well, what I see on the internet a lot, I see the word “cancelled” a lot, but we are not. I’m actually quite confident that we’ll be back for a second season and there’s a couple of reasons for that. I see parallels between our Melrose Place this year and the one that came on in 1993. We went through the same sort of viewership struggles for the first season but creatively we were on our way to finding our legs from day one. I think that’s happening again.

We’re redefining the second half of the season. I mean, not a big redefine but we are making some adjustments and I think that’s going to be much more appealing to our audience. Like the first time around, we didn’t get eyeballs on the show and we’re not getting eyeballs that much now. But I think we will now get more eyeballs. I think if we get people watching the show and not making judgements on it based on what they hear, I think we have a quality show and people are going to watch it and we’re going to come back for another year. I think internationally we’re doing terrific right now and I think it’s going to be a big hit there and that could bring us back.

THE DEADBOLT: Comparing the original show to now, do you think the new show is getting away with more than the original?

CALABRO: Well, I mean I hope it’s getting away with more, relatively. Television is getting away with so much more ten years after the first Melrose Place , isn’t it? So relative to that, no, we’re probably getting away with just as much. I mean, the first time around we were struggling with a gay man kissing a gay man and we shot it with them kissing. Then by the time it got to the air, they kept editing it back, editing it back, editing it back so that they cut away and the audience never saw their lips actually meet. This time around we talk about one of our main characters being a trisexual the first episode. The world has changed in fifteen years and I think Melrose Place reflects that.

THE DEADBOLT: How would you sum it up? That it’s a good reflection of pop culture?

CALABRO: Yeah, I guess so. Melrose Place, by some people’s estimates, defined pop culture in the ’90s, or at least was a big contribution to it. Now we’ve still got all of that wonderful wardrobe and quippy dialogue and we’re dealing with issues of texting and what can happen with all of that internet stuff now. I mean, it’s a very timely show once again. So I think it is, once again, very reflective of people’s fantasies now and what it could be like and how much fun and exciting it is. A bigger reflection of what goes on in Los Angeles as well, maybe even more than the first time around.

THE DEADBOLT: How is the dynamic between Mancini and Amanda going to affect the rest of the season?

CALABRO: There’s going to be more going on for both our characters with other characters. You’re going to sort of see our spider webs expand somewhat. Now, between Heather and I, specifically, between our two characters, specifically, there’s an intrigue. There’s an intrigue that moves forward through the second half of the season. Something is going on between us. Something is very potentially – It just simmers right beneath the surface. And I’ve said this before, everything we have is never quite just about what the scene is about. Not just about her getting a phone number or me doing some doctoring to her, underneath there’s a relationship there that’s waiting to be explored, that’s dying to be explored.

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LIFE UNEXPECTED – Monday, April 12
MELROSE PLACE – Tuesday, April 13
HIGH SOCIETY – Wednesday, April 28
FLY GIRLS – Wednesday, May 5
ANTM (CYCLE 14) – Wednesday, May 12
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES – Thursday, May 13
SUPERNATURAL – Thursday, May 13
SMALLVILLE – Friday, May 14
ONE TREE HILL – Monday, May 17
GOSSIP GIRL – Monday, May 17
90210 – Tuesday, May 18

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Ella (Katie Cassidy) is a little overwhelmed by Jonah’s (Michael Rady) constant attention and decides couplehood might not be for her. Lauren (Stephanie Jacobsen) succumbs to Dr. Mancini’s (Thomas Calabro) threats and David (Shaun Sipos) decides to buy Coal, but the price turns out to be a little higher than he thought.

Meanwhile, Drew (Nick Zano) moonlights in a band and Amanda catches Ben (guest star Billy Campbell) and Riley (Jessica Lucas) in a compromising position.

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Finally added the caps and stills of Laura in the movie Deadly Encounter, enjoy!!!

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