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Melrose Place Goes Out With a Bang
Sorry, Amanda! Fox is foreclosing on Melrose Place after seven seasons of steamy shenanigans, but the show's head honcho promises that the trendsetting prime-time soap will go out with a bang. "The final episodes are going to be more over the top and wild than the show has been in three years," executive producer Charles Pratt Jr. tells Dish. "The goal is for everyone to end up in a place that shocks the audience, but we're not going to blow up the building or tear it down. Don't expect anything like that — mainly because we've already done all those things! The ending is a shocker, though. We're going to kill off a couple of characters, and surprise the audience in other ways, too. It will have the razzmatazz the show used to have." No former characters are scheduled to return for the last episode, but "Michael [Thomas Calabro] will finally get everything he wants and deserves," Pratt teases. "Also, we're going to relate several of the characters to their real lives — I'm not going to say who — so insiders who follow the show will get a kick out of that." Pratt admits that Melrose (Mondays, 8 pm/ET, Fox) has been sagging in the Nielsens, but says the news of the cancellation was still somewhat shocking. "We won the night among women 18 to 49 for the last two weeks, and that's what really hurts when you're told that you're canceled," he says. "I think there's a different philosophy at work at Fox. They're moving in a different direction. I don't know what that direction is, but Melrose was part of the old Fox and we just didn't fit on the new Fox's lineup." — Jonathan Reiner |