MANILA, Philippines - Set in elegant Melrose neighborhood in the heart of West Hollywood, Melrose Place is television’s trendiest apartment-complex and home to the hottest cast of characters this side of tinseltown. Catch the storied lives of the young ambitious people who live there as they pursue their dreams of fortune and fame. It may be a long way from the ‘90s, but their desire for the crazy sexy life, as seen in this redux of the popular show, has not waned.
Melrose Place focuses on the comings and goings of a group of twenty-somethings, each with their own dreams, who live in the complex and find themselves forming a close-knit surrogate family. The main storyline revolves around the lives of the handsome and rebellious David Breck (Shaun Sipos), medical student in desperate need of money Lauren Yung (Stephanie Jacobsen), Jonah Miller (Michael Rady), an aspiring filmmaker who has just proposed to his live-in girlfriend-teacher Riley Richmond (Jessica Lucas), Ella Simms, (Katie Cassidy) the ambitious celebrity publicist, Auggie Kirk Patrick (Colin Egglesfield) and, last but not the least, is newest tenant, 21-year-old Violet Foster (Ashlee Simpson-Wentz) whose introduction into her new abode is a bloody body floating in the courtyard pool.
Returning characters are Sydney Andrews (Laura Leighton) and Dr. Michael Mancini (Thomas Calabro). Melrose Place’s original resident seductress Amanda Woodward, played by Heather Locklear, also drops in to stir things up during the season.
Melrose Place airs Tuesday nights at 9:30 on Velvet with an encore telecast on Saturdays at 9 p.m.