Tell the CW how much we love Melrose Place! http://www.cwtv.com/feedback/comments As far as the horrid inaccuracy of Nielsen ratings? http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/340190-Media_Ad_Consortium_Launches_... The data of only 25,000 metered Nielsen households is multiplied up to get an ESTIMATE of the number of viewers watching. Everybody, the news media, the blogs, everybody forgets that Nielsen reports an ESTIMATED number of viewers for all TV shows. A sample of 25,000 households is less than 0.2% of the American population of 307 million people, 99.8% of Americans have no say in what is actually being watched. And even if they did count the DVR views of a TV show, it would still be limited to that 0.2%. That's why your favorite show was canceled. (This youtube video had 8,000 previous views in addition to the current number, before being pulled.)
I'm 26, people my age grew up watching Melrose Place, and we ARE the CW's demo of 18-34 and 18-49. The "experts" (creepy old men isolated in their icy cold Hollywood-centric world typing in front of their computer in an office boxed in in their business buildings in downtown Los Angeles and who therefore could not be less qualified to give advice on what young people like now and what we grew up with, especially if they base their judgements of a show's popularity on Nielsen ratings, which if you do the math, is not an accurate representation at all of the American population) are absolutely wrong, and need to take a math class. Melrose Place ended only 10 years ago and was a hit among teens and young adults. I watched Melrose Place as a teen until it ended when I was 16. I'm 26 now. Teens who watched Melrose in 1999 are in their 20s now, people in their 20s are in their 30s now, etc. that pretty much qualifies practically everybody in the 18-49 as the audience age for the original Melrose and 90210, as well as validate the nostalgic appeal for the original cast members appearing on the new versions as well. Adding 10-15, or even 20 years to a person's original age during the 90s heyday of Melrose or 90210 does not make a person an elderly citizen out of the all important 18-49 age range unless that person was already an older person in the 90s. No offense intended and with much respect for older citizens.
The CW is often criticized for focusing on the "buzz", but logic dictates that buzz is a more accurate measure of a show's popularity than the Nielsen ratings since buzz about a television show can be accurately counted via Google, references in news and magazine articles, and television appearances, features, and interviews.
On that note, Locklear was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards for Melrose Place, and the series won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Television Series of 1993, which was voted on by real American people, as opposed to the Emmy Awards which are voted on by uptight Hollywood snobs who will say they like a show like 'Mad Men' that glamourizes sexism, misogyny, racism, and homophobia more than it actually tackles it, just for it's snob appeal and so they can be one of the cool 67-year-old boys on the golf course longing for a world that doesn't exist anymore. Mad Men = bandwagon effect.
And on the topic of a show's popularity in the pop culture stratosphere, Heather Locklear, Laura Leighton, and Josie Bissett were on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1994 for Melrose Place, in the same way that Blake Lively and Leighton Meester were on the cover of Rolling Stone for Gossip Girl, in the same way that Laura Leighton and Ashlee were on the cover of TV Guide for Melrose Place in 2009.
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