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It was reported (with Nothing is Easy and Hard Copy) as going on hiatus and being replaced by movies on 25th February 1987. However, already on March 3rd it was confirmed it was going back to Mondays. So no, I don't think it was ever cancelled. It might've been if the ratings didn't improve, of course, but it was obvious that they were giving it another shot. Considering Nothing Is Easy and Hard Copy never got to return to the schedule were burnt off as brief fillers on Friday nights, I'd say they were already determined to try and make Designing Women work, but the "fans saved it story" always makes for a good press release.

Plus, I'd be willing to bet that at least a couple of these people will eventually step back once the show is properly launched and running smoothly. But obviously, being able to set up proper production schedules and control the budget will be important in making this show work and new people stepping into a show without any formula set would likely get out of control quickly.

It was the highest demo day for all soaps for whatever reason. I'm not sure if the weather was bad in an area or something to cause it.

It's sort of interesting - it's from what I can gather a telenovela, so I assume the format must've made it play out somewhat differently. I remember a couple of videos being available on YouTube - from what I could gather some of it seemed directly ripped from OG Dynasty and some seemed more in line with CW Dynasty. A bizarre experiment either way - considering their "top-rated" episodes seem to be between 3.0-4.0 stars on IMDB I'm not sure it's worth the effort of tracking down.

I can't fault Wright for feeling negatively about the show to be honest - it must be frustrating to get a shot at doing movies only to have that momentum taken out because of a restrictive contract. It was also hard to transition from television to doing movies back in the day and I'm sure she got a lot of frowned noses when the subject of coming from a soap come up. I agree with @Vee that it would've been inappropriate for her to show up at the reunion since it would become all about Robin Wright re-visiting her soap days. There's a time and place for her to talk about Santa Barbara but a cosy event like this is probably not one of them.

Yeah, while I wish they would just bite the bullet and hire Cady full time, I think having Melissa back for Doug's funeral is appropriate. But since she doesn't want to commit to doing the show and Cady seems happy to do it... well, it feels like a no-brainer. There's far too few Hortons in Salem as it is.

Here's an interesting thing - the first draft of 4.02 Melrose Is Like a Box of Chocolates (dated June 9th, 1995): https://dailyscript.com/scripts/melrose_place_melrose_is_like_a_box_of_chocolates.pdf My full run down of the script compared to the episode: TL;DR version: I guess the most interesting thing about the first script relates to Brooke - initially she was meant to reveal she had to take care of her terminally ill mother, hence why she reacted so badly towards having to take care of Alison. She also was supposed to point out to Billy if all she wanted was the money from her mother's will she would've married her ex-fiancé Lowell. Billy was also meant to go home and have sex with Brooke after seeing Alison naked, making her think that Billy had forgiven her. They also seemed to soften up Peter a bit - in the original version when Matt attacks Paul in the hospital cafeteria, Michael was supposed to ask for help in pulling them apart, and Peter was meant to comment "he's not my friend". Jack Wagner and Kristin Davis weren't listed among the main cast members, so I assume they hadn't signed contracts at this point as regulars.

Found this summary of the December 29th, 1993 episode in rec.arts.alt.tv.soaps: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.tv.soaps/c/2Gvsv4M8oSU/m/Je4S9WUeIpoJ Fast-forwarded to the end and it seems like it's the Wednesday December 29th episode.

Poor Melissa Errico. She was the only female character killed off the show, and in the end it probably didn't matter since she was likely contracted for the season (and credited for all episodes, so she likely got paid) and the show was cancelled in the end.

This sort of explains why it seems like season 3 was a real shot and why they did a season 3 bible. Shame they didn't go forward with it - it sort of sounds like a mess, but it would've been interesting since it would've been the first prime time soap with proper supernatural elements to it.

Where there's a will, there's a way, hopefully.

Great news! At the very least we should get much better rips of the show.

They should've cast Lisa Rinna in the role.

Wait, they had a successful re-cast with Krista Allen, who seemed to enjoy doing the show and wanted to stay, and they're re-casting again? Why?

I'm shocked it took them this long to bring her back to be honest. Didn't her last appearance kind of end on a cliffhanger note? I wonder if the situation on set made her balk at doing further guest appearances.

TBH, doing a re-watch pod like a lot of actors are doing is a more realistic path to go down, but then again, Knots isn't available on streaming at the moment which hinders everything.

Thank you!

Andrew's new project for bringing people back together with organising for citizens to get together sounds like a great idea to ease the political polarization going on. Damn his labrador energy! Andrew's new project: https://www.thepeople.org/

Oh, interesting - in the latest episode of Still the Place with Andrew said he was negotiating to do half of season 7.

They were on 90210mg and promoted the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mondays-are-a-bi/id1534142827?i=1000663638060 Towards the end of the episode they talk about how they left the show after season 5 and Laura gives this long answer how it felt like it was time for a break, they'd done so much and so on. Courtney says she gave them a number and they said no.

You weren't impressed with Robin Givens announcing in every other scene that she *is* Stephanie Lancaster?

I assume ALF in this case is the animated series and then later ALF Tales? I'm surprised they didn't do more episodes in that case - it seems like it did well for NBC.

Vivica still does a lot of movies... she might do a guest stint because she seems to be friends with Val Jean, but casting her in a regular part wouldn't be smart because she'd quickly be out of there even if she did agree to do it.

Oh, I thought of a few other ones I watched earlier this year. When FOX was launching new nights (Tuesdays and Wednesdays) in the 1992-93 season they of course expanded with two more Spelling shows in form of The Heights and Melrose Place. But they also had Key West - which was more or less Northern Exposure... but in a sunny climate: They also had Class of '96, which at first sight might sound like an attempt at beating 90210 to college: Class of '96 was probably more in line with Party of Five (which came two seasons later) rather than 90210 though. CBS's Freshman Dorm came across as a rather blatant attempt to beat 90210 to the college punch bowl: It even had Justin Lazard as the sensitive leather-wearing (yet mysteriously never sweating like hell) James Dean type.

It wasn't doing well - it wasn't in the top 30 to start with. It's lead-in Ironside was at #4 with a 25.7 rating and the lead out, Dean Martin Show, had a 20.0 rating and ranked #24th. The number 30 show had a 19.3 rating that season. Meanwhile, the midseason replacement for Nancy, Adam-12, ranked 12th and averaged with a 22.6 rating. It was a no-brainer it was cancelled. The story about Nixon getting them to can it sounds like typical rubbish.