Melrose In The News
for the week of:
June 7, 1999

The final ratings for the 1998-1999 TV season are in. MP finished in 95th place with an average of 8.4 million viewers a week. That's down 18% from last season. And the finale only managed a dismal 10.38 million viewers.

At the daytime Emmys, Rena Sofer talked about her new ABC series, Oh, Grow Up. It sounds so much like a Friends clone.

MP isn't on any more, but you can still catch your favorite stars in some of their other work.

No week is complete without VH1's airing of Where Are They Now? featuring Jack Wagner, 6/8, 10PM ET/PT.

Amy Locane stars in Going All the Way, The Movie Channel, 6/9, 12:30AM ET/PT.

Linden Ashby's Cadillac Ranch airs on The Movie Channel, 6/9, 5:25AM ET/PT. His Mortal Kombat airs on TNT, 6/9, 2:00AM ET/PT and again at 8:00PM ET/PT. Shelter is on HBO, 6/10, 4:20AM ET/PT. And Beneficiary is on HBO, 6/11, 1:45AM ET/PT.

Thomas Calabro guests on the Law & Order episode, "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die," A&E, 6/10, 8:00P/PT and again 6/11, 12:00AM ET/PT.

Heather Locklear stars in Rich Men, Single Women, Lifetime, 6/10, 1:00PM ET/PT. She plays one of three women out to snare a rich husband. The other two women are played by Suzanne Somers, who won the part of Chrissie Snow on Three's Company from Heather, and Deborah Adair, who played Lucy Cabot, Billy's boss at Escapade Magazine, and is Chip Hayes' real-life wife. Part Two of Heather's Texas Justice airs on ABC, 6/10, 9:00PM ET/PT, three days after Part One. Why the delay? She then stars in Highway Heartbreaker, Lifetime, 6/12, 4:00PM ET/PT. She plays one of three women who team up to snare a handsome con man who swindled them. The other two women are played by Linda Gray, who played her Place mother, and Tracy Nelson, who played Alison's sister.

Hard Copy does a segment on Georgia Durante, 6/11, syndicated, check your local listings. Georgia is a stuntwoman who has doubled for Josie Bissett.

Courtney Thorne-Smith stars in Summer School, TBS, 6/12, 1:00PM ET/PT.

A new episode of Kristin Davis' Sex in the City is on HBO, 6/13, 9:00PM ET/PT and again 6/15, 11:00PM ET/PT. The episode, "The Awful Truth," has her character getting a puppy to replace her boyfriend. The puppy is most likely a better actor than her Place hubby, Andrew Shue.

Rob Estes stars in Close to Danger, ABC, 6/14, 9:00PM ET/PT. It's about a college student/police informant who falls in love with a man secretly trying to kill her. The coed is played by Lisa Rinna.

And finally, Kelly Rutherford guest stars in Bodies of Evidence, TNT, 6/15, 9:00AM ET/PT. A pre-ER George Clooney is one of the serie's regulars.

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