Comments on: ‘Melrose Place’ Alum Laura Leighton Signs On For The Redux

By: boss

boss — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:20:01 +0000

They should just make the last season of Melrose Place a bad dream! Bring back the good characters!! Sydney, Jane, Jo, Amanda, Allison, Kimberly, Matt, This is when Melrose place was good!! Were the producers smoking crack towards the last days???? I love Sydney, she was my favorite because she was bad, but mostly misunderstood. She was hillarious!! She was evil but you werent afraid of her like you would be of Amanda and Kimberly. Thats why i loved her. She was the underdog of the super bitches! You wanted her to succeed even if it meant for her to be bad. Im sorta worried about her role being reprised becuase it’s on another network, different writtersand producers and such. Will it still be sydney? Also, she needs to have good co-actors to make it work. Ill watch, but im nervous.

By: Rolltideguy77

Rolltideguy77 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:27:00 +0000

Sadly they killed off Matt in the last season or so in an off camera accident. Trent you have to watch the last seasons and get caught up before the new show starts. I do think it would be great if Matt could comeback somehow. I was glued to the TV as a teen because he was the only gay character I had ever seen on tv in a semi-positive light despite his never really getting anything beyond a hug from a guy. TV has come a long way since then thankfully.

By: Kent

Kent — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:48:14 +0000

Ok, I’m really sorry but I just cannot stay away from this thread today … the return of LL has me very happy.
But now I just read that Thomas Calabro is coming back too!!

By: Kent

Kent — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:44:23 +0000

@JeniLee – thx for the update… yup, I was def done with the show by then. I had moved on to shows like Ellen, Ally McBeal, Will & Grace… and I remember lamenting there were no longer any primetime dramas (soaps) to get all caught up in.

By: Kent

Kent — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:35:23 +0000

@Trent – Ha! Too true. Same thing goes for sister soaps Y&R and B&B.
It’s like Eric saying to Donna on B&B that she looks alot like that slut Grace from Genoa City whom he must have heard about at some point from perhaps Lauren or Amber. Or wait, maybe he heard about it from Katie who also just so happens to look a helluva lot like the first born daughter of his midwest counterpart Victor.

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:57:03 +0000

BTW, bringing back dead characters is nothing new for soap operas. The original MP brought back Kimberly from the dead and would’ve again if Marcia hadn’t refused. :P

And of course there are idiosyncracities with these shows. There are some within MP itself! And Rob Estes was on MP as Kyle yet is a high school principal from Kansas (not Boston) in the new 90210.

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:54:44 +0000

OMFG I’m so excited, too! When Sydney was killed off the original MP, I was pissed as hell. I’m glad she came back, and now I’ll actually WANT to watch the show. When I read Ashlee Simpson was on, I dreaded watching it. But now, I’ll DVR it.

By: It's Trent, Bitch!

It's Trent, Bitch! — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:11:37 +0000

@JeniLee — Considering MP is a spin-off of BH, 90210 – did Jennie Garth’s character Kelly Taylor ever say to Leighton’s BH, 90210 character Sophie, “Hey, you look a lot like Sydney Andrews who used to live at Melrose Place”?

By: JeniLee

JeniLee — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:06:08 +0000

@ Kent…..Laura Leighton was in season 9 of 90210….she played Sophie for a very short time. She wanted to make it big in Hollywood and she used Steve and then dated David. She left him for a rich guy she only knew for like a day. haha

By: Brenda

Brenda — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:15:37 +0000

Sweet butta. This is kind of random, but my mom worked with Laura Leighton’s stepdad in Des Moines, IA for years (decades even) up until a couple of years ago when she semi-retired. When Laura Leighton was dating Grant Show before Doug Savant, Grant Show would call the office wanting to speak to Laura’s stepdad (Dr. Scepum or something like that–it’s kind of crazy last name spelling but that’s it phonetically) and all the office ladies would of course giggle and all be atwitter about him calling and talking to him. True story.

By: Christy

Christy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:03:10 +0000

I would love to see Alyssa Milano reprise her role too along with Grant Show.

By: Freddy

Freddy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:37:44 +0000

Umm, matt is totally dead right ? they killed him in an off-camera car accident towards the end of the series when he wasn’t even a cast member anymore so that they could do the whole, what secret did matt keep in his diary about Amanda malarkey. And Sydney was TOTALLY dead. I mean, her fiance went off an killed himself he was so distraught, and she never went and told her sister? thats just lame …

By: Kyleigh

Kyleigh — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:25:58 +0000

TSK, TSK Trent! First, you did not know of the fab 90′s band 3Deep and now you are just discovering the Leighton-Savant pairing! And here I have to come rely on you for the best goss!

P.S. I think Leigh-vant have like 3 kiddies too!

By: nae

nae — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:19:00 +0000

hell yea! can’t wait! =]

By: Kent

Kent — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:22:16 +0000

Can I second that from the rooftops? Sydney RULES!
She was such a great evil little bitch, so misguided, such a back-stabber/husband stealer to her poor, dear, sweet sister Jane, and just so damn hot! I will totally watch this knowing she’s back for the remake.
I totally don’t remember her being on 90210, though… I musta stopped watching at that point I guess.
It’d also be great I think if the producers bring back Lexy, but I think she just signed on with All My Children or something like that.
I appreciate your digression, Trent! It was such a SCAM when FOX censored Matt’s on-screen kiss with his boyfriend! They promo’d that for weeks leading up to it and then it was a huge letdown. I wonder who the gayz’ll be on the new series?
Can’t wait!