Melrose Place is back!
In an elegant Spanish-style apartment building in the trendy Melrose
neighborhood of Los Angeles, a diverse group of 20-somethings have
formed a close-knit surrogate family. Sydney Andrews (Laura Leighton,
the original "Melrose Place") is the landlady, still beautiful at 40,
and a central figure in the lives of all her tenants, especially
handsome and rebellious David Breck (Shaun Sipos, "Shark"). Sydney
started an affair with David despite her turbulent history with his
estranged father, Dr. Michael Mancini (Thomas Calabro, the original
"Melrose Place"). Both father and son learned through experience that
Sydney was not above using blackmail to control people.
Another tenant,
high-powered publicist Ella Simms (Katie Cassidy, "Supernatural"), once
considered Sydney her mentor, but their friendship was destroyed by
betrayal, and Sydney threatened to evict Ella and ruin her career.
Sydney also played a pivotal role in the career of Auggie Kirkpatrick
(Colin Egglesfield, "All My Children"). After they met at an AA
meeting, she became Auggie's sponsor and encouraged his dream to become
a chef. Now a successful sous chef at the trendy restaurant Coal,
Auggie has been avoiding Sydney since she began drinking again. The
other tenants include Lauren Yung (Stephanie Jacobsen, "Terminator: The
Sarah Connor Chronicles"), a medical student in desperate need of money
to pay her student loans, and Jonah Miller (Michael Rady, "Swingtown"),
an aspiring filmmaker who has just proposed to his live-in girlfriend
Riley Richmond (Jessica Lucas, "Cloverfield"), a first-grade teacher.
The newest tenant, 18-year-old Violet Foster (Ashlee Simpson-Wentz,
"7th Heaven"), has just arrived in LA with her own secret connection to
Sydney.
When a bloody body is found floating in the courtyard pool,
David is the leading suspect. However, as the police are soon to
discover, almost everyone living at Melrose Place had a reason to want
the deceased out of the way. An updated version of the popular 1990s
series, MELROSE PLACE is from CBS Television Studios with executive
producers Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer (""Smallville"").
Oscar-winner Davis Guggenheim ("An Inconvenient Truth") is the director
and executive producer of the pilot.
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