'Melrose Place' Is Getting a Lifetime TV Movie Too!
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The Cast Photos of Lifetime's Unauthorized '90210' & 'Melrose Place' Movies Are '90s Perfection
Get ready for some instant nostalgia. Lifetime released the cast photos for both of their unauthorized remakes of television classics Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place on Wednesday, each one serving up some '90s realness. First let's start with 90210. Behold, Samantha Munro as Brenda Walsh/Shannen Doherty, Max Lloyd-Jones as Brandon Walsh/Jason Priestley, Abbie Cobb as Kelly Taylor/Jennie Garth, Jesy McKinney as Dylan McKay/Luke Perry, Abby Ross as Donna Martin/Tori Spelling, David Lennon as Steve Sanders/Ian Ziering, Michele Goyns as Andrea Zuckerman/Gabrielle Carteris, and Ross Linton as David Silver/Brian Austin Green. WATCH: Shannon Doherty Gives Advice to Tori Spelling -- 'Love Yourself' Lifetime We especially appreciate the recreation of Perry's signature pompadour and Garth's blond bangs, but the Ziering and Spelling castings are pretty off, no? FOX And now let's get to Aaron Spelling's other '90s hit, Melrose Place. Giving their best model poses are Ciara Hanna as Amanda Woodward/Heather Locklear, Rebecca Dalton as Allison Parker/Courtney Thorne-Smith, Frank Bailey as Billy Campbell/Andrew Shue, Ryan Bruce as Jake Hanson/Grant Show, Chloe McClay as Jane Mancini/Josie Bissett, Ali Cobrin as Jo Reynolds/Daphne Zuniga, Teagan Vincze as Kimberly Shaw/Marcia Cross, Joseph Coleman as Matt Fielding/Doug Savant, Brandon Barash as Michael Mancini/Thomas Calabro, Karissa Tynes as Rhonda Blair/Vanessa A. Williams, Chelsea Hobbs as Sydney Andrews/Laura Leighton, and Lanie Mcauley as Sandy Louise Harding/Amy Locane. Lifetime Not bad, but who can really ever live up to Locklear's performance of Amanda Woodward? FOX The Unauthorized Beverly Hills, 90210 Story will air on Oct. 3 at 8 p.m., while The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story will air on Oct. 10, at 8 p.m.. Both Lifetime films revolve around the behind-the-scenes drama surrounding the guilty pleasure shows. WATCH: '90210' Reunion -- Dylan and Brandon Are Back! Last May, ET caught up with Priestley, when he talked about his time on 90210, and the legendary drama between his co-stars Garth, Spelling and Doherty. "They were three teenage girls working in a high-pressure situation," he recalled. "They did the best they could." Watch below:
The cable network is currently developing The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story, which will detail the primetime soap's origins and development into a cultural phenomenon, "Drawing from true stories and anecdotes from interviews with the original cast and crew," a rep for the network told Us Weekly.
Melrose Place, a spin-off of Beverly Hills, 90210 (which is also getting the Lifetime treatment), debuted on Fox in July 1992 and ran for seven seasons until it went off the air in 1999. The series focused on the dramatic lives of the residents of a Los Angeles apartment complex called Melrose Place, and their intersecting lives and romantic entanglements.
During its seven seasons, there were many different cast members and the show became infamous for its increasingly bizarre and soapy storylines. So The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story will likely have some great material to work with when it comes to behind-the-scenes conflicts.
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