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Melrose Place: A "Post-AIDS Sexual Revolution"
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If you want to be part of the new sexual revolution, you'd better tune in to the new Melrose Place Sept. 8 on the CW. At least that's the message we took away from Wednesday's Q&A with executive producer Todd Slavkin.
We got the dish on the cast's sexcapades, the original residents of the famous address and more...
All the Beautiful Stars (Except Mischa) Get Naked
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With Melrose Place, Gossip Girl and 90210, producer Ashton Kutcher's new show The Beautiful Life looks pretty similar to everything else on the CW. Plus, it's got the whole "Starring Mischa Barton" thing to overcome.
Which may explain the whole new tune-in campaign for TBL: Ads with naked people.
Makes sense. Melrose Place already called dibs on "Tuesday's the New Hump Day" and 90210 grabbed the low-hanging testicular angle, so what other moderately salacious thing is there, really?
Since Mischa is missing from the naked model line up, you'll just have to make due with Sarah Paxton, Corbin Bleu, Ashley Madekwe and Ben Hollingsworth after the jump.
But it does beg the question: Now that you've seen them naked, is there any reason to tune in?
In the Year of Melrose Place, CW Boss Talks Spinoffs, Crossovers, Remakes and Dead Pilots
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The CW has original content. Really. Sure, the CW schedule seems to be chock-full of remakes, book adaptations, franchise extensions and spinoffs, but there is TV-native material on there somewhere. (We're sitting in the Life Unexpected panel right now, and that's totally an original series.)
Still, this is the year of Melrose Place (it's gonna be so good, you guys), and as such, the spotlight at the Television Press Tour was on the myriad ways that the See-Dub might further capitalize on its success reimagining existing material.
What about another Gossip Girl spinoff? Could there be a third '90s series remake on the network after 90210 and Melrose Place—Party of Five, anyone? Read on for the answers from CW boss Dawn Ostroff herself.
Kim Kardashian and Lauren Conrad Join America's Next Top Model
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America's Next Top Model is getting a little fiercer this year with reality fashionistas Kim Kardashian and Lauren Conrad set to appear in cycle 13 as celebrity judges.
Are they joining full-time to replace departed supermodel judge Paulina Porizkova? Here's what we're hearing...
This Just In: Brian Austin Green Joins Smallville
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Good morning, TV fans! Let's start the day off with a roundup of CW casting news, including updates on Smallville, One Tree Hill and Supernatural.
• Brian Austin Green will follow up on his genre work on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles with a guest stint on Smallville as killer cyborg Metallo.
• Bonus BAG Sighting: Our dearly departed Derek Reese, who is apparently the CW's new favorite thing—what with Body Politic, the OTH rumors and now Smallville—was spotted this morning at Manhattan Bagel on Ventura Blvd. in the Valley. Fan report from the scene: He was nice. (Yes, we are the hardest hard-nosed reporters evar.)
• One Tree Hill's newest castmember (after Robert Buckley) will be Shantel VanSanten, as Quinn, Haley's older sister.
• Our favorite TV casting rumor of the summer has been debunked by all parties: Wentworth Miller will not be appearing as Lucifer on season five of Supernatural. At least that's not the plan right now, but it should become the plan, because, well...can you imagine?
Exclusive
Sources Confirm New CW Schedule
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Along with the confirmation that the CW has picked up The Beautiful Life, Vampire Diaries and Melrose Place, sources now confirm to us that Smallville is indeed moving to Friday nights, with Ian Somerhalder's new vampire show replacing it in the 8 p.m. slot on Thursday. Sources also confirm the new fall 2009 CW schedule, which is listed below.
Breaking News
CW Picks Up Six: Five Dramas, Top Model to Return
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Great news, TV fans! The CW has agreed to renew six of our favorites: Gossip Girl, Supernatural, One Tree Hill, 90210, Smallville and America's Next Top Model. Great news to be sure, but that does leave four existing CW series in limbo: Privileged, Reaper, The Game and Everybody Hates Chris. Any or all of those four might be canceled to make way for the likes of the new Melrose Place and the Gossip Girl spinoff set in 1980s L.A.
Still, a guarantee of more Winchester boys and Bluck? Not so bad.
Are you happy? Do you do the dance of joy? Do you have any caveats or complaints before you accept this news? Post in the comments!
Are One Tree Hill, Supernatural and Smallville Safe?
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What are the chances your CW faves will survive for another season?
The official verdict won't come down until the upfronts in May, when the networks unveil their new fall schedules, but CW president Dawn Ostroff and One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush are offering up a little early information.
Will the OTH cast sign on for another year? Will Clark Kent continue on for one more season in Smallville? And will Supernatural survive to hunt demons another day or could the Winchester boys go down before their time?
We've got the info and the odds...
The CW Awards Winners Are In!
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The votes are in!
Want to know who won the first-ever Watch With Kristin CW Awards?
Did Gossip Girl shut out the competition? Or did Supernatural slaughter all comers?
Read on to meet the winners for Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, Best Series and Best Writer/Producer/Auteur.
Plus see which two stars, one female and one male, were the hands-down winners for the people's choice bonus categories.
Are your faves included?
The CW Finally Gets Some Awards Respect (Yours)
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Awards season is here, and as per bah-humbug usual, the fancy trophy-giving institutions seem poised to shut out the Littlest Network That Can. It's hard out there for a CW show, but the industry elitism ends here and now, because we know how much good stuff is going on at the See-Dub. (As do many of you fellow fans, who emailed in yesterday after the Globes noms.)
Therefore, in an effort to redress these wrongs, we are launching the first ever CW Awards.
The question, of course, is which CW actors, auteurs and series deserve to take the top spot, and only you can decide the answer, so drop in and vote...
No Smallville Feat—and the TV Ratings Top 10
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You're a guy show on a girl network. Your would-be companion show just got nixed. You're being fitted for a Kryptonite collar about now, right? Well…
Smallville scored its biggest audience in a year last week (4.5 million viewers), and ruled its time slot among men 18-34.
The upbeat ratings came as the CW said it was pulling the plug on its planned Smallville-esque Robin series, The Graysons, and confirmed it was mulling a revamp of Melrose Place, a series that theoretically would pull in Gossip Girl women, unlike, you know, Smallville.
There's no word on whether Smallville will be back for a ninth season, although the show's executive producers recently talked up future "seasons" on the fan site, KryptonSite.
Clark Kent may be a superhero out of water, but he seems to have good lungs.
Elsewhere, Heroes could use an oxygen mask, plus nine other lessons from the latest Nielsen rankings and stats:
Jennie Garth Says No to CW's New Melrose Place
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Not gonna happen.
That's what Jennie Garth says of the possibility that she may take part in the just-announced Melrose Place remake that the CW network is planning.
Refresher course: Garth, who's now starring in the See-Dub's 90210 redo, was the "L.C." of Melrose Place back in the day—the leading lady who moved viewers from the original show (Beverly Hills, 90210) to the spinoff (Melrose).
So why not this time?
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