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[tommie]

Look at them trying to re-create the Monday's are a Bitch slogan!

 

[Carrie Fairchild]

Look at them trying to re-create the Monday's are a Bitch slogan!

I think FOX desperately wanted North Shore to be the Melrose Place type sister soap to their new 90210, The O.C, with Shannen’s Alexandra being the new Amanda Woodward. If I remember correctly, MP’s Rob Estes was due to star in the show but dropped out after the pilot was shot. I haven’t watched it yet, so I’m unsure how catty Alexandra was in comparison to Amanda.

 

[tommie]

I think FOX desperately wanted North Shore to be the Melrose Place type sister soap to their new 90210, The O.C, with Shannen’s Alexandra being the new Amanda Woodward. If I remember correctly, MP’s Rob Estes was due to star in the show but dropped out after the pilot was shot. I haven’t watched it yet, so I’m unsure how catty Alexandra was in comparison to Amanda.

I watched the entire show (including the unaired 21st episode which included a big cliffhanger), but yeah, it just wasn't anything special and didn't have that "spark". I actually re-watched the Melrose Place pilot the other day due to Courtney, Daphne and Laura's podcast and as dire as the show was, there was something there. I just never felt like that for North Shore and as much as I love Shannen, her character just didn't bring that Amanda Woodward spark because there just wasn't enough things she could bring conflict to.

I think a lot of these shows just confused the fact that Melrose (or Dynasty, if you will) got a "special guest star" and forget what those characters did on the show; Alison and Billy had been smouldering all season and of course Alexis just brought conflict for all Carringtons. I don't recall Shannen's Alexandra bringing the same conflict level for North Shore.

 

[Carrie Fairchild]

 

[MarkSinacori]

I think FOX desperately wanted North Shore to be the Melrose Place type sister soap to their new 90210, The O.C, with Shannen’s Alexandra being the new Amanda Woodward. If I remember correctly, MP’s Rob Estes was due to star in the show but dropped out after the pilot was shot. I haven’t watched it yet, so I’m unsure how catty Alexandra was in comparison to Amanda.

It was a good show but I don't know...it just felt like something in summer. They ran it summer and it lasted 20 episodes with the 21st being filmed and not aired in early winter of 2005. I liked it. I feel it could have returned at least one more season.

 

[MarkSinacori]

I watched the entire show (including the unaired 21st episode which included a big cliffhanger), but yeah, it just wasn't anything special and didn't have that "spark". I actually re-watched the Melrose Place pilot the other day due to Courtney, Daphne and Laura's podcast and as dire as the show was, there was something there. I just never felt like that for North Shore and as much as I love Shannen, her character just didn't bring that Amanda Woodward spark because there just wasn't enough things she could bring conflict to.

I think a lot of these shows just confused the fact that Melrose (or Dynasty, if you will) got a "special guest star" and forget what those characters did on the show; Alison and Billy had been smouldering all season and of course Alexis just brought conflict for all Carringtons. I don't recall Shannen's Alexandra bringing the same conflict level for North Shore.

Alex, I think, got with every guy...Frankie, Chris...Maybe even Gabriel...I just remember she was very bossy to them. But they weren't buying her ways. In her last scene she was standing in the hotel in episode 21 as it looked like it was being deserted by the guests. That was the last scene of the series. She could have been worse.

 

[tommie]

Alex, I think, got with every guy...Frankie, Chris...Maybe even Gabriel...I just remember she was very bossy to them. But they weren't buying her ways. In her last scene she was standing in the hotel in episode 21 as it looked like it was being deserted by the guests. That was the last scene of the series. She could have been worse.

No, a car blew up - it was literally the last scene of the series.

 

[MarkSinacori]

No, a car blew up - it was literally the last scene of the series.

The car blew up, then the last scene was Alex inside the hotel, as it looked like the guests were vacating slowly.

 

[bmasters9]

Bumping this up: vintage Knots Landing syndication ads from the former WPWR Channel 60 in Chicago, billed as "Chicago's Power Station!" (that is now Channel 50, FOX Chicago +, affilliated w/MyNetwork TV), from the Jan. 26-Feb. 1, 1986 TV Prevue in that Sunday's Chicago Sun-Times (these cover Mon. Jan. 27 through Fri. Jan. 31; the show was at 6 P.M. on that station every night)...

 

[Carrie Fairchild]

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Oh, the 80’s!

 

[Carrie Fairchild]

 

[Carrie Fairchild]

 

[Carrie Fairchild]

Courtesy of the wonderful Denver Carrington Files on Instagram.

 

[tommie]

 

[kenneth]

It's a shame that so many of these shows felt compelled to force in a Ewing/Carrington/Channing-style family.

I do have the Hampton's on VHS in my closet somewhere.

 

[Carrie Fairchild]

 

[Carrie Fairchild]

 

[GillesDenver]

"Provocative" ? I guess the bosses from FOX did not watch a single episode of their own series...