8 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

Aaron Spelling tried to remake Hotel in 2003…? I had no idea.

Neither did I.

I have vague memories of remakes of The Love Boat and Fantasy Island in the late 1990s.

On 2/12/2026 at 2:12 PM, DRW50 said:

@soapfan770 Neither did I. Thanks. This must have been near the end for him. I guess they were thinking of the Love Boat remake on UPN, although that only ran for a year or two.

On 2/12/2026 at 3:17 PM, Chris B said:

@soapfan770 Hmmm...I hadn't heard of the Hotel remake either! Not sure that show needed to be remade. I'm surprised he didn't try to remake Dynasty while he was alive.

22 hours ago, Khan said:

"Hotel" is a show that's always easy to reboot - simple premise, episodes you could produce on the cheap, no iconic stars from the original series to cast long and inescapable shadows on the new show - so I'm not surprised UPN tried in '03.

No problem!! I only discovered when I was looking through a list of failed Aaron Spelling shows and pilots (it’s a lengthy list too).

Of course UPN had tried out Love Boat: The Next Wave a few before with Robert Urich and Phil Morris…I can neither confirm or deny I watched an episode (or two) though….

Looking at the cast on IMDB the only names I recognized listed were Michael Jai White, Martha Smith (the Scarecrow and Mrs. King fan in me lol but yeah she would’ve been a D-list star) and Jay Kenneth Johnson, who would have obviously been fresh off his first Days stint at the time. I do remember he went on to star in the ill fated North Shore a year later.

@Khan That may be true but of course with the show being on UPN obviously celebrity guest stars has this come to fruition in 2003 probably would’ve come the way of Richard Grieco, Kirk and/or Candace Cameron, Kelly Rutherford, Nancy and/or Phillip McKeon, Antonio Sabato Jr., Tracy Middendorf etc 🤣

21 hours ago, kalbir said:

Neither did I.

I have vague memories of remakes of The Love Boat and Fantasy Island in the late 1990s.

Memory unlocked for the 1998 version of Fantasy Island. Only episode I remember watching was where Olivia D’Abo was some cheating housewife who fantasized about having her own Jenny Jones meets Jerry Springer type talk show while Malcolm McDowell also looked 200 years old lol.